By Shella Dabbach
Enviroment Group and Onewa’s Enviroment Prefect
This week, Sam Tu’itahi – the Community Activator from Kaipātiki Project – came in to our Environmental Group with a beautiful story to explain the environmental values included in Tongan culture. Kaipātiki Project is a North Shore-based group leading native bush regeneration, growing native plants, and providing conservation volunteering opportunities.
He passed around string and we got to know our wonderful Enviro Group better, asking each other why we joined the group and what we care about.
Tongan and Māori culture both value the environment incredibly. Because it is a part of our home, we must cherish and protect it at all costs.
Kaipatiki Project was donated money from the Enviro Group’s successful clothes swap recently and you can find more about what they do via this link https://kaipatiki.org.nz/.