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The Maori Women’s Development Incorporation is keen to make Maori whanau and communities around the country more financially savvy.
The incorporation, an off-shoot of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, has been testing its ideas in the north, working with Te Runanga o Ngapuhi and Massey University’s Fin-Ed Centre to train up Te Pu o te Wheke Whanau Ora community workers as financial literacy facilitators.
This week it is running a He Oranga Maibiz programme in Kaikohe where people already in small business compete to develop business ideas.
Chief executive Teresa Tepania-Aston says financial literacy is a way for whanau to take charge of their own destiny.
"Because in reality financial literacy affects us from the cradle to the grave and so it’s something we really need to take hold of because it’s so important and our lives can change if only just to improve a little bit on how we manage our finances," she says.
Teresa Tepania Ashton says the Maori Women’s Development Inc is talking with Auckland council about running financial literacy programmes in south Auckland, and sessions are also planned in Ngati porou.
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