Te Ātiawa o te waka a Māui - I have devoted most of my life to addressing the social issues of Aotearoa New Zealand. I am currently Manutaki, City Missioner, at Te Tapui Atawhai Auckland City Mission. I am proud to be part of the Kai Rawa Trust, the kaitiaki of Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective, where together we work towards a future where no one goes hungry, everyone has access to good food and there is a more equitable and prosperous Aotearoa for all.

Ki te taha o tōku Māmā, Ko Hikurangi te maunga, Ko Waiapu te awa, Ko Ngāti Porou tōku iwī. Ko te Whanau o Ruataupare me te Whanau o Rakairoa ōku hapū. Ki te taha o toku papa no Blackpool Ingarangi, Ngāti Wēra, me Ngāti Kōtimana ahau.

Alannah is invested in kaupapa that improve outcomes for Māori. She has had 40 years of working with whanau, iwi, public sector and NGO’s across a range of sectors including education, social services, health, education and justice. She sees a key role for the re-indigenisation of the values and beliefs driving the current system to dismantle systemic barriers to equitable access to nutritious kai.

Kia ora koutou e te whānau. I am currently with Visionwest Waka Whakakitenga as Head of Services Development and Partnerships. My involvement in the Kai Rawa Trust board comes from a passion for a food secure Aotearoa. In my work, I see the effects of food insecurity every day. Something must change. Systems change must be prioritised if we want an Aotearoa where food security is normalised as a right for all. I believe Kore Hiakai is the collective with the potential to do this mahi and weave together a fully food secure Aotearoa.

I tipu ake ahau ki Paengaroa, ki ngā rekereke o taku Whaea, he uri ahau no Tūhoe, Ko Andrew Watene taku ingoa.

I am here to contribute to Kai Rawa Trust’s mission of addressing root causes of food insecurity in New Zealand. I am conscious of the dramatic impact hunger can have on a person’s life for those who experience it. I’m dedicated to working with others to provide sustainable and consistent access to nutritious food for all of Aotearoa.

No reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

E ngā reo, e ngā mana, e nga karangaranga maha kei waenganui i a tātou tēna koutou, tēna koutou, tēna tātou katoa.

Nō te waka o Tainui tēnei. Ko Pirongia te maunga, ko Kāwhia moana, Kāwhia kai, Kāwhia tangata, ko Waipa te awa, ko Ngāti Maniapoto Iwi ko Ngāti Kinohaku te hapū. Koinei te tātai whakapapa o tōku whaea. Ki te taha o tōku matua nō te County Wextford tēnei, nō Airangi hoki ahau. I am from Māori (Ngāti Maniapoto) and Irish (County Wextford) descent.

I have 4 four tamariki and 6 mokopuna. They also have whakapapa ties to Tahiti, Rarotonga and Niue.

Born in Wellington and raised in Porirua, I am from the first generation of urban born Māori males with the same lived experience as the majority of my generation.

Since my teens, I’ve gardened. This passion led to formal study in horticulture, later leading to organics and permaculture. However my career path led to the establishment of a training and development organisation with a focus on working between the two main corporate bodies of knowledge here; Mātauranga Māori and Western Epistemology. This work was across government, industry, community – whanau, hapū and Iwi. At this stage of my life, I’m returning to my passions and am honoured to be a Trustee of Kai Rawa Trust. This affords me the opportunity to keep my head above the clouds watching and progressing food security and sovereignty while I can get my hands dirty back home in the garden, back in the ngahere at Kāwhia.

I have a vison where everyone has access to healthy nontoxic food and the ability to produce it ourselves. No-one should go without in this land of plenty.

Talofa lava malo le soifua.

I'm a Samoan-born senior educator who has a social work background.

My focus is on transformative ways of teaching and learning with a focus on pedagogies inspired through Pacific and Māori ways of being.

My interest in Kai Rawa is personal and community-influenced because of the respect I have for the priority of food sovereignty in our future generations. I am married to Marlane and we are privileged to have four young adults and five grandees who teach us a lot about how to live our lives! Ia manuia, fa'afetai.