One of its main services is finding foster homes for Pasefika and Maori children who become wards of the state under their So'otaga Aiga Pasefika (SAP) program. Ms Caroline Epa, one of the (SAP ...

Children at Te Wainui-a-rua, a Maori school on the Whanganui River, celebrate Puanga by making traditional kites. Every morning they assemble and say, "We are the river, and the river is us." ...

many of whom were Indigenous Maori. "It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never have happened," ...

However, unlike English, te reo Maori is a transparent language – the written form is completely phonetic with a 100% ...

Aaron Smale: Students and parents of Māori kids say their experience of the education system is uneven at best. Photo / Getty Images Writing on Māori subjects for broad audiences as I do, there ...

KASHIWA, Chiba Prefecture--Some 9,000 kilometers from where the traditional Maori dance originated, children from a rugby club here gave a powerful rendition of the haka, famed for its iconic ...

I also studied Te Reo Maori for 1 year, so speak and understand ... I paused to raise and home-educate my 4 children (all adults now, and I'm now enjoying being a Grandma. I then retrained to ...