{"id":3539,"date":"2023-06-19T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T10:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2023-09-04T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:30:41","slug":"christchurch-mum-helps-bring-te-reo-maori-back-to-her-whanau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/christchurch-mum-helps-bring-te-reo-maori-back-to-her-whanau\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch mum helps bring te reo M\u0101ori back to her wh\u0101nau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since she was a young girl, Alicia Ward had a deep desire to connect with her whakapapa (genealogy) and immerse herself in te ao M\u0101ori (the M\u0101ori world).<\/p>

After enrolling their fourth child into a bilingual preschool, Alicia and her husband knew it was time to start learning te reo so they could k\u014drero M\u0101ori as a wh\u0101nau.<\/p>

\u201cI remember always having a sense of longing. I knew something was missing in my life and I could feel that pull.\u201d<\/p>

Alicia\u2019s mum encouraged her to study at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa after going on her own journey learning raranga (weaving) and rongo\u0101 M\u0101ori (M\u0101ori medicine).<\/p>

In 2018, Alicia\u2019s desire became a reality when she enrolled to\u00a0study te reo M\u0101ori<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa.<\/p>

\u201cTe W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa has opened doors for me that I thought were permanently locked. I\u2019ve been able to help bring back te reo to my wh\u0101nau.\u201d<\/p>

After 5 years of study and reconnecting to her whakapapa, she has completed the\u00a0level 7 Diploma in Te P\u012bnakitanga ki te Reo Kairangi<\/a><\/strong>. She was also this year\u2019s tauira (student) speaker, and proudly wore k\u0101kahu (cloak) woven by her mum, on stage at her graduation ceremony in\u00a0\u014ctautahi, Christchurch<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>

In 2021, while on her learning haerenga (journey) at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa, Alicia was diagnosed with ADHD. But she highlights how her kaiako and fellow tauira encouraged and empowered her and how excited she was to reconnect with her Whanganui whakapapa.<\/p>

\u201cYour journey will be your own and it will look different to others. You may have bursts of progression, then years of nothing. That\u2019s not a failure, it\u2019s just the nature of the journey.\u201d<\/p>

Alicia and her mum have been able to impart their knowledge amongst their wh\u0101nau and communities, and Alicia encourages those with even the slightest desire to learn reo M\u0101ori, to give it a go.<\/p>

\u201cThe vision of Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa is wh\u0101nau transformation through education. This has truly happened in my wh\u0101nau. Both my mum and I are on this reclamation journey.\u201d<\/p>

Find out more about our\u00a0te reo M\u0101ori programmes<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYour journey will be your own and it will look different to others. You may have bursts of progression, then years of nothing. That\u2019s not a failure, it\u2019s just the nature of the journey.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-stories","category-reo-maori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}