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Ten years of language funding in Te Tai Hau-ā-uru
5 July 2011
Media Release
Ten years of language funding in Te Tai Hau-ā-uru
The release today of regional statistics that have been accumulated over a 10 year period shows Mā Te Reo is having a significant impact on community driven language revitalisation efforts in Te Tai Hau-ā-uru.
The Mā Te Reo fund was established in 2001 to provide financial support to projects that contribute to community based Māori language revitalisation. This initiative places responsibility on iwi, hapū, whānau, Māori communities and Māori organisations to create and develop innovative solutions to what is a national crisis and these factsheets show Māori have responded to that challenge.
“The fact sheets tell the story of the impact of that investment on language revitalisation”, says Chief Executive, Glenis Philip Barbara.
The Mā Te Reo fund
supported 79 projects in Te Tai Hau-ā-uru. The key findings
for the region included:
• Over $1
million provided by the Mā Te Reo fund for community driven
te reo Māori revitalisation initiatives from 2001 – 2010;
• Wānanga reo represented over half of
the regions Mā Te Reo investment;
•
73% of all funded projects reported that the learning and
use of te reo Māori has been strengthened within familiar
Māori domains;
• 30% of all funded
projects indicated that their projects prioritise iwi
dialect as part of their te reo Māori delivery; and
•
44% of all funded projects facilitate and encourage
whanaungatanga.
“Perhaps the most powerful insight gleaned from the information contained across all regional factsheets is that the funding made available by Mā Te Reo has enabled initiatives and projects that are driven by Māori. The ability to be able to not just diagnose language concerns but also resolve them at a local level is a clearly articulated ambition and evidently one that Mā Te Reo meets”
“The net result of this activity – language gain and cultural strength which are the cornerstones for successful Māori development,” says Glenis Philip-Barbara.
ENDS
MTR_Fact_Sheet_2011_Te_Tai_Hauauru_d10.pdf
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