Mana Wāhine

14/05/2026

Mana Wāhine is a proud sponsor of ❤️🖤 KBJ Netball Club - Porirua warm up T-shirts for the 2026 netball season. KBJ collaborate closely along side Ora Toa Health Services to promote Wāhine Hauora within the Porirua region.

These kakahu encourage all who see it to inact their own Tino Rangatiratanga and engage with health providers to ensure they are up to date with their cervical, breast, Cardio Vascular Disease, Diabete screenings.

Through hakinakina we have champion rangatahi who understand the importance of health checks & are proud to promote hauora within their communities.

All the best to KBJ for the netball season 🔥 kia kaha, kia Maia, kia manawanui ☺️

04/05/2026

World Indigenous Cancer Conference 2026 ❤️

Our Mana Wāhine team attended the conference held in Tamaki Makaurau on 21-23 April. This opportunity for professional development for our team to understand on a global scale how whanau living with cancer are impacted. What is our contribution to preventative measure within our Mana Wāhine beast & cervical screening service as well as our cancer navigation service.

The learnings were greatly received & our team walked away with new knowledge and continue passion to continue to serve our communities across Te Whanganui a Tara 🥰

06/04/2026

Mana Wāhine partnered with Ikaroa Ki Te Tonga Māori netball kaupapa to support our developing players reach their goals and achieve on a national scale. Ikaroa ki te Tonga won the U13, U15 & U17 grade this year at the ❤️Aotearoa Maori Netball Oranga Healthy Lifestyles competition hosted by Te Tai Tokerau in Whangārei this Easter Weekend 🐣

We proudly sponsored a koha contribution to the fees of 5 kōhine to help towards them attending this tournament. The successful applicants were:

Left to right: U13 Zara Lokotui, U17 Zoe Jacobs, U13 Jermayne Enoke, U13 Ceejay Huriwaka & Premier Sharnay Leef

We wish these kōhine all the best for the remainder of the year. This is the first big tournament to kick off a busy netball schedule ☺️

01/04/2026

27/03/2026

Mana Wāhine hosted our first Ora Atua for our Te Mauri Whanau at Mary Potter Hospice last week.

We have 3 additional sessions lined up for the year. Two in the hutt valley & 1 in Porirua. If you or a whanau member area currently on a journey with cancer please reach out to us and we can provide the dates for our future Wānanga with Puoro Jerome 💚 As we revitalise our traditions and customs their is deep healing through our taonga puoro and connectedness with one another. Knowing that you are not alone on the journey and through our Te Mauri kaupapa we would love to support you and your whanau.

How to contact and find out more information:

📧 manawahine@kokiri-hauora.org.nz or Facebook message.

05/03/2026

🩵 Te Mauri Porirua 🩵

On Wednesday we acknowledged a significant passing of our beloved Whaea Matewawe Pouwhare last week. Matewawe was a founding member of Te Mauri alongside Matua Lewis Stephenson. Our night we shared specific karakia & waiata Matewawe design as this kaupapa will continue to be a legacy of Whaea Matewawe. Whaea Matewawe had touched many lives and she will be sadly missed by many.

Our Te Mauri discussion this night was centred around our individual relationship with grief and how we call on our Atua Māori to identify forms of healing. When our whanau living with cancer are feeling isolated to have the courage to ask whanau for support and not endure what can be a very lonely path. Lots of kōrero came from our roopū and lots of whakawatea moments happened.

Thank you to our Ringawera who prepared our Kai on Wednesday. We ended our night with a lovely Kai to whakanoa our wairua and prepare everyone for another week.

23/02/2026

Hui-Fono 2026 💜

Mana Wāhine alongside Breast Screening Aotearoa, Breast Screening Central & Pacific Health Service facilitated a wananga addressing inequities around our Māori & Pacific Wāhine accessing breast screening across Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

We were fortunate to have Dr Chris Mowat present from a surgeon perspective on common themes presenting within her clinics and why early detection & prevention is best. Thank you very much Dr Chris Mowat for your contribution to our Wāhine within our community. Truly inspiring 🥰

Thank you to all our Wāhine who attended the day and participated in the different break out sessions where we were able to discuss and find lots of golden nuggets as we plan for the 2026 year as a collective.

Lastly a huge mihimihi to our excellent ringawera whanau for catering our hui-fono wananga. Apart of a successful wananga is the kai shared with one another and the whanaungatanga portal that our Kai opens.

09/02/2026

Mana Wāhine was awarded the Mary Potter Hospice 2025 Health Partner Award in recognitition of establishing a new Te Mauri site in Porirua. Te Mauri is a kaupapa Māori cancer support roopū.

Thank you to Mary Potter Hospice for hosting our sessions every fortnight and will continue to work alongside one another this year.

If you have whanau who are impacted by cancer and are in need of aroha, manaaki, whakamana tō wairua Te Mauri is the place for you. Our wananga will be starting next Wednesday 18 Feb in Porirua. For further details contact us via our fb page or email.

📧 manawahine@kokiri-hauora.org.nz
📞 04 920 1472
🗣️ Facebook messenger

03/02/2026

🪶Te Ra o Te Raukura 2026🪶

What an amazing day celebrating matauranga Māori, hauora and kai. Our beautiful Wellington weather created the most spectacular day to come together and celebrate one another.

Our Kokiri Marae Mana Wāhine & Cancer Navigation service were located in the Hauora tent. Lots of beautiful kōrero shared as well new relationships built within the different services in attendance on the day.

Thank you to the Te Rā o Te Raukura Kōmiti and Te Runanga o Te Atiawa / Sponsors for putting on a wonderful whanau-centred community event.

Mauri ora

27/01/2026

Te Rā o Te Raukura Schedule 🪶

07/01/2026

Tēnā Koutou,

Happy new year whānau !!!!!

Our first event for the year is fast approaching. Kokiri Marae Mana Wāhine team will have the campervan onsite at Te Rā o Te Raukura 2026 alongside the mobile breast screening bus.

If you are due for cervical screening and would like to book into this clinic please do not hesitate to make contact with us.

Methods of contact:

🫶🏽 Message us on Facebook
📧 manawahine@kokiri-hauora.org.nz
📞 04 920 1472
📱 022 322 0353