{"id":413,"date":"2017-09-15T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2021-07-19T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:58:15","slug":"waikato-regional-council-take-up-reo-maori-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/waikato-regional-council-take-up-reo-maori-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato Regional Council take up reo M\u0101ori challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"413\" class=\"elementor elementor-413\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f7d42c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f7d42c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-afb696a\" data-id=\"afb696a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e53e688 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e53e688\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For the first time staff at Waikato Regional Council have taken up the Mahuru M\u0101ori challenge to speak M\u0101ori during the whole month of September.<\/p><p>The Council has also launched an APP to mark M\u0101ori language week.<\/p><p>The boss is leading by example by taking up the reo challenge.<\/p><p>&#8220;The language is a treasure,&#8221; said Chief Executive Vaughan Payne. &#8220;I want to support the Mahuru M\u0101ori challenge, to support my colleagues.&#8221;<\/p><p>The seven staff participants speak M\u0101ori on different days of the week to ensure work responsibilities and daily tasks continue.<\/p><p>&#8220;I acknowledge my colleagues because of their huge support,&#8221; said participant Roger Lewis, &#8220;when you speak M\u0101ori to them, they don&#8217;t have a clue of what you&#8217;re saying, so you write it down on paper in English. Another participant becomes your translator.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;Some of the difficulties have been when I speak to non-M\u0101ori at meetings, when I go to the shop to buy food or other things,&#8221; said Payne.<\/p><p>To celebrate M\u0101ori Language week the council also released their Kawe K\u014drero App, which was nine months in the making, to strengthen its relationships with their Iwi partners.<\/p><p>&#8220;It covers from learning basic pepeh\u0101 right through to karakia, k\u014drero, whai k\u014drero, waiata, but enables the participant to engage with the App in such a way that they can learn at their own pace,&#8221; said Community and Services director, Neville Williams.<\/p><p>The APP is free and also available to users overseas.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teaomaori.news\/waikato-regional-council-take-reo-maori-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5962e09 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"5962e09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=VOuuT2hpq6s&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ae5a38 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ae5a38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Download it from one of the App Stores<\/p><ul class=\"pl-2 -my-2 list-disc\"><li class=\"my-2\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.kiwamedia.android.qbook.WAI0001&amp;hl=en\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><span class=\"hover:underline\">Google Play App Store<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"my-2\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/nz\/app\/kawe-k%C5%8Drero\/id1225805054\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><span class=\"hover:underline\">Apple App Store<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"my-2\"><a class=\"block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-nz\/p\/kawe-korero\/9nddxds7mxjc?activetab=pivot:overviewtab\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><span class=\"hover:underline\">Microsoft App Store<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\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":"<p>For the first time staff at Waikato Regional Council have taken up the Mahuru M\u0101ori challenge to speak M\u0101ori during the whole month of September.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,18,17,15],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-stories","tag-in-the-news","tag-kaunihera-councils","tag-waikato","tag-wero-pakihi-business-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}