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September 13, 2024
International award for Maipi-Clarke
Atereano Mateariki
Posted On September 13, 2024
Download AudioHauraki Waikato MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is using an international award to prepare some of her fellow rangatahi for future leadership.
The Te Pāti Māori MP is set to receive a politician of the year at this month’s One Young World Summit in Montréal, Canada, alongside Guatemala’s youngest ever elected woman, 22-year-old Elena Sofia Motta Kolleff; Canada’s Kamal Khera and Syrian refugee turned German mayor Ryyan Alshebl.
It’s the same award Far North mayor Moko Tepania won last year.
Her father Potaka Maipi says she’s taking a group of 10 Waikato rangatahi to share the experience and participate in the summit, which for the first time will include a day-long Indigenous session at a reservation near the city tangata whenua known as Tiohtià:ke.
“Indigenous kaupapa is to the fore and it’s about educating all the rest of the countries that attend the conference so that’s why we’re taking a big contingent over this year to celebrate the indigenous side to this conference,” Mr Maipi says.
After the One Young World Summit, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke will travel to New York for an AFS Youth Assembly, while some of the other rangatahi will head for South Korea for kapa haka performances.
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