Small Business: Ngahere striving to tackle inequality
20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw
Manawa Udy, founder and managing director of social enterprise Ngahere, talks helping Māori and Pasifika get ahead and how Covid-19 inspired the group s latest venture.
What does your business do? There are three businesses under Ngahere Ventures: Ngahere Communities, which builds communities and enhances creativity and innovation, we re based in South Auckland and we run a co-working space and we have a collective of creatives that deliver digital creative services. Ngahere Foundation is a not-for-profit that delivers programmes and helps develop entrepreneurial creative skills and Konei is an online marketplace that brings Aotearoa brands together in one place for entrepreneurs to build their businesses.