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November 04, 2024
IndigiShare launches business program for Māori
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Posted On November 4, 2024
Download AudioIndigiShare launched Te Aka Matua, a new business development programme in Rotorua, welcoming its first cohort of 16 Māori entrepreneurs.
Supported by the Booster Foundation, the six-week initiative began last week, aiming to help the cohort turn their business ideas into reality through group wānanga and one-on-one mentoring.
IndigiShare Chief Executive Maria Ngawati says the program aims to reshape the Māori perception of business, focusing on family-level businesses and small to medium enterprises.
Te Aka Matua serves as a mechanism for iwi, ahuwhenua trusts, corporations, and tauiwi investors to recognise the potential of these entrepreneurs, uplifting them and bridging their economic gaps.
“You know, we’ve got to be real. There’s this gap that’s occurring. It’s already occurring between Māori and Pākehā, but it’s actually occurring within Māoridom as well. So we’re trying to do is close the gap between the asset-rich gross and whānau-level resilience and economic sovereignty at the at the very, very basic level. So that gap is getting wider, and Indigishare aims to sit in the middle to help bridge that gap there,” says Ngawati.
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