30 I am not sure what area of Medicine I will get into just yet, I plan on using my time as a junior doctor to figure out what I want to be. However, what I do know is that my passion lies with helping our Māori and Pacific communities and bridging the gap between our nation’s health disparities has been, and will continue to be a lifelong dream of mine. We need more brown faces working in hospitals so if you, or any of your whānau have an inkling toward getting into the health profession then back yourself and do it! I’m more than happy to help out and feel free to get in touch if you need advice, motivation or questions answered.
anderley gordon - ngäti hikairo
During my time in and out of the hospital, I’ve come across and treated a handful of people who whakapapa to Ngāti Tūwharetoa. The feeling of helping your own is incredibly uplifting and the moment of realizing you both are from the same iwi to me was very memorable and emotional.
Te Reo Māori is the one thing that sets us apart as indigenous people from any other peoples throughout the world, it is the lens in which we are able to look back and understand what, how and why our ancestors did what they did and how they viewed the world. If we lose this important taonga we will lose a huge part of our identity as Māori and as Tūwharetoa.
I am in my final month of Medical School and I start work at Auckland City Hospital as a junior doctor in November. For the past three years I have been based at Wellington hospital for the clinical years of my degree and I will be a graduate from Otago Medical School in December this year. Being a doctor is something I have dreamt of since I was 13 years old. I was inspired by the doctors and surgeons who I dealt with when I sustained a knee injury while playing netball. I always enjoyed science and I loved sport so being a Sports Doctor was something I had my mind set on. At school, I was always busy with sports and I was a never an ‘NCEA excellence’ student, but I was determined to make Medical School despite some teachers doubting me. In 2011, I put a hold on my netball career, gave up my social life and knuckled down with my mahi. By the end of that year I was accepted into all five health sciences programmes – Medicine, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Med Lab Sciences and Radiography. In December, I will graduate alongside 40 other Māori students and walk proudly across the stage as part of the largest group of Māori doctors to ever go through Medical School.
He uri tēnei nā Tamamutu Chase rāua ko Arihia Rākei e toro whānuitia ana ngā herenga ki tēnā muka, ki tēnā whaitua, ki tēnā kopa o te rohe nei mai i Tokaanu ko Pūhaorangi tae atu ki Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri i Hīrangi whakawhiti atu rā ki Korohē ko Rereao ka mutu ka kauria te moana ki Hiruharama, ki Paenoa ki tōku wharepuni a Rauhoto e tāwharautia ana tōku pane.
My PhD research “Te Pā Tūwatawata: Te Reo i te Kāinga” focuses on one way that we can return our language to the most important place that it could ever be which is the kāinga or home as an everyday language. Tamaiti ākona i te kāinga, tū ana ki te marae, tau ana! A child taught at home stands confident on the marae.
iraia bailey - ngäti kurauia, ngäti turangitukua, ngäti hine, ngäti rauhoto, ngäti te urunga Tuia te rangi e tū nei Tuia te papa e takoto nei Tuia ki te muka e tē momotu Hui ē tāiki ē! Te pō ki a rātau Te ao ki a tātau Tīhei mauri ora! Ka hūrangi atu te manu tāiko ki te ānewa o te rangi kia kapohia atu ai e te ngutu mārō te kupu nō roto i te kete i whaowhaoa ki te ringa i toro atu ai ki te aka. Ka tiripou iho ki ngā wai tuku kiri o Taupō Moana te marae o te motu, te pātaka o te iwi, te rua taniwhā nui e mau nei te ihi, te tapu o Tūwharetoa ko au ko koe, ko koe ko au!!!
kerrian duff - ngäti hikairo, ngäti kurauia, ngäti turangitukua, ngäti turumakina It is of the utmost importance that our Tūwharetoa people have access to the best educational opportunities available. This is basic