The Scholarship will be known as the Johnston Lawrence Wairarapa Moana Scholarship in Law

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would have just sat at home and done nothing.” “I made some really good friends there that I have kept because we all went through the same challenges, pain, happiness and glory.” Megan did a course, Parents As First Teachers (PAFT), when she first had Kaylin and through a woman there she heard about the Teen Parent Unit. Megan had been attending Wairarapa College before she left in her fifth form year to prepare for the birth of Kaylin in October 2001. “I decided to go along to the unit for a visit one day and a girl I went to school with was there and she was really welcoming.” “For the first couple of months Kaylin stayed with me while I did work and then she went into the crèche.” Megan completed Levels 1 and 2 NCEA through the unit and received a scholarship to go to Wellington College of Education to complete a bridging course, which would allow her to enrol at university. “My husband, who manages a courier company in Wellington, moved over first to Johnsonville and Kaylin and I followed soon after.” Both Megan and her husband Dan are from Masterton and were married at Rathkeale College on New Year’s Eve. At eighteen years old Megan was full-time studying at Victoria University for her BA and Kaylin spent her days at the Teachers College crèche in Karori. Now twenty-two, Megan has graduated with her BA and has lined up a note-taking job for summer helping Maori students with disabilities who are studying over the summer semester. The Diploma of Teaching course is one-year, full-time study and will qualify Megan to teach at primary school level. The lecturers at university were really supportive of Megan studying and made allowances around Kaylin, she said.

Wairarapa Moana Trust Looks To The Future

Ma te tokomaha ka ka te ahi

By the many the fire will be kept burning

Each year the Wairarapa Moana trustees spend a day together to discuss and plan their initiatives for the year.

“The end of 2007 was a time of significant change for the Wairarapa Moana Trust, so it was important for trustees to spend some time together to discuss and agree our future initiatives,” said Anne Carter, Chairman. “At the beginning of 2008 we went through a process of transferring our responsibilities for servicing Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts and the Wairarapa Moana Trust office to the management of the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation. “Trustees will now focus their efforts exclusively on delivering initiatives that will benefit shareholders and descendants of Wairarapa Moana.” The Planning Day in February reconfirmed that the priorities for the next three years for the Trust will be: