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Feeling a little forgotten and a little low in spirits and kai.
A Tolaga bay community leader says they need basic things like cleaning equipment, skip bins and a dump that's open so people can start clearing sludge and destroyed items from their homes.
Children in the small isolated east coast community north of Gisborne were able to go back to school today.
Rina Kerekere from Te Whare Hauora O Te Aitanga A Hauiti told Lisa Owen what the community needs.
Small Business Series: Whare Hauora is community-first but could save the country $7 billion.
What started out as three women sitting around a kitchen table soldering, is now an organisation manufacturing internet-connected sensors in Shenzhen and creating unique data sovereignty plans that could benefit the entire country.
Not-for-profit Whare Hauora was founded in 2017 by Amber Craig and Brenda Wallace. Hīria Te Rangi joined a year later and was then handed the reins as kaiwhakahaere (chief executive). Craig is still on the board alongside Te Rangi, Jay Daley and Diana Minee.
“Essentially, I started as the cheerleader” says Te Rangi, who has a background as a product manager at Westpac, “then suddenly it’s a