About
Mahi Tahi Akoranga Trust is about supporting the development of people, whanau and community. We do this through 30 plus years experience delivering tikanga and kaupapa maori based wananga to motivate and inspire positive and pro-social growth in participants. Be it youth development in schools or working with whanau in Justice sector care, we know that developing self positively impacts developing whanau which in turn positively impacts developing communities. See the change, be the change.
TIKA, PONO, AROHA
Our Roots, OUR PAST -
For 30 years, from 1995 to 2025, Mahi Tahi kaiako provided mentoring support for whānau in jail or at risk of entering jail. The Trust has had a long standing working relationship with Ara Poutama, the New Zealand Department of Corrections, delivering wānanga at Corrections facilities, marae and facilities throughout Aotearoa. Our nationally acclaimed wānanga arose from promises and partnerships forged by members of the 28th Māori Battalion during the Battle for Cassino.
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Promises to support whānau of the fallen contributed to Mahi Tahi now being a trailblazing provider of prison rehabilitation services for many years. Our wānanga are focussed on increasing awareness of traditional Māori principles, values and disciplines. In this mahi, our Kaiako have worked tirelessly to strengthen or restore mana, and to motivate and equip whānau within the care of the justice sector, to live as law-abiding, productive family and community members.