Te Ora Hou Whanganui

Te Ora Hou is a kaupapa Maori, faith based team serving in our Whanganui community with the purpose to work with rangatahi, whānau and communities to promote:

whanaungatanga (identity andbelonging),

pukengatanga (competence and mastery),

mana motuhake (responsibility and independence) and

ohaoha (contribution and generosity.)

The plan for the Te Ora Hou Whare is to purpose-build a complete facility to enable Te Ora Hou

services to be housed and to run activities for young people and community.

Te Ora Hou requires a facility from which all workers can be housed and multiple small community activities can be run concurrently

Te Ora Hou has long outgrown our 2 bedroom cottage and double garage. We have overflowed to the managers home next door. The location is perfect - in Stone Soup

neighbourhood, within 450m of 3 schools.

The new facility has been designed with the needs of Stone Soup community led development in mind. With a community activity room, open plan dining, kitchen and ablutions the

Te Ora Hou office area can be locked and the facility handed over to community.

We hope to be in our new space by December 2021!

After careful planning, many meetings with Versatile, and a lot of hard work we have finalised the plan for the build.

We have been supported by three funders for funding to build, but we have a shortfall of $74,000.

We are all so excited to have a Whare that will allow us to run our programs to a high standard. Any koha towards our new Whare would be a huge help towards us completing our new space.

Current activities at Te Ora Hou include:

Te Pihi Ora Hou Tama (10-12 years)

Intermediate age boys group that meets weekly

Te Pihi Ora Hou Kotiro (10-12 years)

Intermediate aged girls group that meets weekly

Senior Club (13yrs and older)

A weekly club for high school aged rangatahi

Whakapakari

Whakapakari consists of a group of senior rangatahi from our community who have been identified as having leadership potential and in whom Te Ora Hou has invested considerable time and resources to develop their leadership skills.

Driver Licensing: Drive Safe, Drive Legal

NZTA contract Te Ora Hou to provide Learner License, Restricted License and Full License training.

Whanau Support Service

This is a whanau support for families with youth aged 9 - 17 years. We have a registered Social Worker on site.

Transitional Housing

Te Ora Hou Whanganui owns two houses that we use for Transitional Housing in Whanganui.

Tiihokahoka

Tiihokahoka is our intensive mentoring program for tamariki and rangatahi with high complex needs.

Stone Soup

We work closely with the Stone Soup Community Led Development initiative.

Naku te rourou nau te rourou ka ora ai te iwi

With your basket and my basket the people will live