Kia ora koutou e te whānau o Wakatū,
This email is the third in a short series of pānui, videos, and social media in the lead up to our Special General Meeting (SGM) on Saturday 23 March, in Wellington.
It complements a printed booklet, ‘Wakatū Incorporation and your role as a shareholder,’ that you’ll receive in the post alongside other SGM materials in advance of the meeting.
Please keep an eye out for these materials and let us know at any time if you have any further questions or would like more information.
Our Commitment to Whānau
As an organisation, Wakatū is committed to the cultural, social and economic development of our whānau as a collective, strong in their identity as Māori.
This is why we invest in the development and capability of our whānau, via educational, cultural and other development programmes.
Connected to this work are our succession programmes, which are designed to ensure our whānau can lead, govern and manage our organisation consistently with our values and tikanga.
These are in addition to opportunities for development and advancement via various networks that are led by Wakatū. For example:
Te Hunga Panuku alumni programme - this promotes the development of our wānanga and scholarship participants over time and ensures we have the capability we need to govern and manage our organisation.
The Karioi programme and its network of whānau participants, which is designed to ensure food security, knowledge and resilience for whānau
Te Rākau Pakiaka, our whakapapa and tikanga programme. This is designed to ensure our cultural knowledge and capability is strong and is retained through the generations.
There is no cost to whānau to attend our wānanga, which are available to whānau who whakapapa to the land, regardless of whether they hold shares or not.
You can find out more information about these opportunities at www.wakatu.org and on our social media channels where we regularly promote them.
Ngā mihi maioha,
Johnny McGregor
Wakatū Incorporation - Chair