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Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis and Craig Shepard of Kaitūmata Māori of the Ngāti Koata Trust hongi during the Community launch of Te Hurihanganui at the Victory Community Centre, in Nelson.
A Nelson community has become the fourth in New Zealand to take part a $42 million project addressing racism and bias in the education system. The Associate Minister for Education, Kelvin Davis, on Thursday unveiled Nelson’s Victory community as the latest of the six communities nationwide, participating in the kaupapa, Te Hurihanganui, which started in Porirua last year. Welcomed at Victory Community Centre by representatives of the community, including the region’s eight iwi, and the kapa haka group Ngā Āho Rau – from Nelson College and Nelson College for Girls – Davis said that racism existed in Aotearoa.
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