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Ngā Hau e Wha o Wainuiomata Marae Awards Evening 2024

It was the annual awards evening for Ngā Hau e Wha o Wainuiomata Marae (NHEW), a night to celebrate and honour all those involved in the club. NHEW was initially set up to create a pathway for Māori to achieve at sport, improve their health and well being, participate in the community and connect with their whakapapa and identity.

Each campaign includes a:

Noho Marae
Learning Haka, Waiata and Karakia
Physical Training
Travel to Rotorua and participate in the NZ Māori Rugby League Tournaments

As a result, many rangatahi particularly kōtiro/girls have made national teams including NZ Kiwis, NZ Māori, Fetu Samoa and most recently more then 10 have been signed to Australia clubs with the hope it will lead to NRLW contract.

We also celebrate the number of teams that have joined this year, players and staff whom are all volunteers including our first Touch team that went and participated in the NZ Māori Touch nationals. 2024 saw us have:

10 teams
First tour to Australia winning all 3 games
U17 National Champs
27 national representatives
First Touch Team to participate in NZ Māori Touch Tournament

We're looking forward to what 2025 brings.

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Tihei Rangatahi Holiday Programme Term 2 Recap

Over the past two weeks, we ran an amazing Tihei Rangatahi holiday programme filled with learning, fun, and unforgettable experiences.

We kicked things off with a station rotation day where the rangatahi learned how to make putiputi from harakeke, helped with hāngī prep for our lunch the next day, and enjoyed a round of sports. We wrapped up the day with a sausage sizzle and a hikoi down the Gumloop.

The next day we headed out to Brewtown, where the kids had a blast ice skating and jumping on trampolines. We ended that day by sharing the delicious hāngī we prepared together.

To finish off Week 1, we treated the kids to a movie day to watch The Karate Kid 3, complete with goodie bags for the full experience.

Week 2 started with a splash at H2O Pool, which the kids loved so much that we went again the next day — this time to Kilbirnie Pools.

On our final day, we spent the morning at Walter Nash, playing a range of sports, then celebrated our last afternoon at Taita Rocks with pizza. We closed the programme with a special Hautūku ceremony, where each rangatahi wrote down something they wanted to release and placed it in the fire. They also wrote a goal on a star to set intentions moving forward.

We ended with s’mores, laughter, and full hearts. The tamariki absolutely loved it — and we can’t wait for the next Tihei Rangatahi holiday programme!