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Funding helps projects spring into action

Funding helps projects spring into action Enhancing wetland areas, restoring the mana of a famous natural spring, maintaining a native plant nursery

'Resilient' South Waikato community sticks together during lockdown

Covid-19: Tokoroa BP visit send locals flocking for tests

Fears for Māori burial ground as Waikato power grid extension plans revealed

The 80-year-old said kaumātua have long treated the area as sacred. “There are burial caves across the road from us and one of the poles is going to be within metres of them,” she said. “That whole area across the road from the marae was also a huge battle site. It’s very sacred.” SUPPLIED The Pokaiwhenua Stream and surrounding area between Arapuni and Putāruru is sacred to local Maori. “Sixty years ago my father-in-law told all of us to never go across. The Mangakaretu whānau are aware of this and treat the area with deep respect.

South Waikato Youth To Get Hand Up Into Jobs

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 4:33 pm Twenty-five South Waikato youth not in employment education or training (NEETs) could soon be in paid work with help from WORKit, a $250,000 employment programme launched today by the South Waikato District Council and Mayors Taskforce for Jobs (MTFJ), funded by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). The WORKit programme is one of a number of Community Recovery Programme projects throughout the country funded by MSD through the Mayors Taskforce For Jobs (MTFJ), a nationwide network of Mayors working towards the vision of all young people under 25 being engaged in appropriate education, training, work or other positive activity in their communities. Since the middle of last year this has supported over 500 young and displaced workers into employment.