Me aha pehea tatau? How shall we move forward?
Vision
We stood at the beginning of the new millennium, the start of another era, the drawing of a new day. Me aha tatau? What shall we do? Me aha pehea tatau? How shall we move forward?
In order to impact upon the ‘real world’ there needs to be a careful and considered plan of response. This plan focuses the Wairarapa Moana Trust’s efforts into eight critical success areas:
- People and Communities
- Health and Well-being
- Educational Achievement
- Housing and Safety
- Confidence and Self-reliance
- Marae and Facility Development
- Cultural Development and Capability
- Monitoring, Assessment and Review
Confidence and Self-reliance
To have our people recognised as supremely proud and confident people who consistently demonstrate an ability and willingness to overcome and succeed in all circumstances.
Cultural Development and Capability
To establish a generation of shareholders who are capable, confident and strong within their own identity, culture and heritage.
Marae and Facility Development
He whare tu ki paenga, he kai na te ahi. A, te whare maihi i tu ki roto i te pa tuwatawata a Kahukuranui, he tohu no te rangatira.
A house that stands alone and derelict is good only for the fire. An ornate, protected and well-supported house is the sign of a rangatira.
Housing
To have our people living in housing arrangements that complement their social, health and well-being, whanau and community development objectives.
Long-Term Vision
People
To establish an effective and dynamic information database that assists in keeping our people informed, involved and in control of their future development.
Communities
To establish an efficient, effective, comprehensive and co-ordinated ‘community’ of development services within the Wairarapa each tailored to meet the specific needs of our people.
Health and Well-being
To establish a healthy and productive community where health services are accessible, effective and appropriate and where the focus of the community and the health providers is on preventative health development.
Educational Achievement
Te manu e kai ana te miromiro nona te ngaherehere
Te manu e kai ana te matauranga nona te Ao
Education is limitless, education is for life
Confidence and Self-reliance
To have our people recognised as supremely proud and confident people who consistently demonstrate an ability and willingness to overcome and succeed in all circumstances.
Cultural Development and Capability
To establish a generation of shareholders who are capable, confident and strong within their own identity, culture and heritage.
Marae and Facility Development
He whare tu ki paenga, he kai na te ahi. A, te whare maihi i tu ki roto i te pa tuwatawata a Kahukuranui, he tohu no te rangatira.
A house that stands alone and derelict is good only for the fire. An ornate, protected and well-supported house is the sign of a rangatira.
Housing
To have our people living in housing arrangements that complement their social, health and well-being, whanau and community development objectives.
Mission
The Ideal World
The Wairarapa Moana Trust stands for the ideal world.
An ideal world where iwi, hapu and whanau are made up of collections of individuals who are:
- Confident in their history, whakapapa and traditions;
- Able to fully express and communicate their wishes, emotions, needs through a variety of media and/or languages;
- Physically strong and healthy;
- Able to achieve and realise every potential;
- Willing to strive;
- Self reliant and responsible;
- Skilled, knowledgeable and successful;
- Aware of and contribute to the wider collective good within whanau, hapu, marae and iwi;
- Cognisant of the value and worth of the contributions they make to the world;
- Supported, valued and cared for by others within their world.
An ideal world where:
- Health, race, employment and education are no longer barriers to Maori development;
- Support, success and security are everyday occurrences;
- Wairarapa traditions, customs, language and history are common currency;
- Being Maori is the solution and no longer the problem.
Strategies
The strategic plan (2000 – 2035) was designed to provide direction to the Wairarapa Moana Trust during its first hesitant steps in to the new millennium. It is important because it sets a direction, not only for ourselves but for our descendants, for the many years that will follow.
It is intended that the strategic plan serve as a catalyst for change, growth and development for change before all of us, as individuals, as members of whanau, hapu, marae and iwi. This too is the challenge that lies before the Wairarapa Moana Trust. The strategic plan is one way to respond to this call.
Who are our people?
- Mana whenua
- Mana moana
- Mana tangata
Who will keep the dreams of our ancestors alive?
Who will retain and protect the mana of the land, the lake and the people?
We will: the descendants of the land, the lake and the people.
We are the people, the whakapapa descendants of Wairarapa Moana. We are ‘our people’.
Visions of the past – Pathways for the future
The long-term vision of the Wairarapa Moana Trust is illustrated by the following three whakatauki:
- Te tama whakaete turanga rau, i titi te upoko ki te kura-a-rangi
- A person of many talents will be blessed with a lifetime of accomplishments.
Our people have many talents, we all should be blessed with a lifetime of success and happiness.
- E kore e taka te parapara a ona tipuna, tukana iho ki a ia
- The qualities and talents of past generations will not fail to be fulfilled,
they have been handed on to us by our ancestors.
Our ancestors were people of mana. The fact that we are descended from them is no coincidence. We all have a role to play amongst our people as did our ancestors before us. We should not forget the lessons of the past nor ignore the opportunities of the future.
- Ma te tokomaha ka ka te ahi
- By the many the fire will be kept burning
If we support each other, our people will succeed, our people will endure. The strength of our ancestors will remain strong amongst their many descendants.
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