Healthy Families East Cape is committed to providing sustainable prevention solutions for the health and wellbeing of wāhine in Te Tairāwhiti and their whānau.

The initiative was co-designed with wāhine from Ngā Wāhine Māori Toko i Te Ora – Te Tairāwhiti (Māori Women’s Welfare League – Te Tairawhiti (MWWL)) during the initial phase of our collaboration. Using their lived voice to understand their aspirations. The co-design session used Te Whare Tapa Wha framework to record their aspirations. Te Whare Tapa Wha a framework designed by Sir Mason Durie acknowledges that there are four facets to achieving ora.

Using Māori frameworks like maramataka and Te Whare Tapa Wha to guide our prototype has been key to how we have created, pivoted and supported this kaupapa to build the adaptative capacity of our wāhine.