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TOA (Tāne Ora Alliance): A Māori Men's Health Programme

Movember Funding to Date

NZD 491,504

What we seek to achieve

TOA is about healthy Maori men, participating fully in society. By enabling the existing structures in Maori communities to identify males in need of help and connect them to service providers in a culturally congruent way, the community becomes the healing environment.

Country
New Zealand
Implemented by
Te Tihi o Ruahine
Project start date
November 2015
Project Status
In Progress

About the project

TOA (Tāne Ora Alliance) is a new approach to improving the health of Māori men. TOA is a 14-week holistic programme that uses the well-known model of Māori health, Te Whare Tapa Whā, as a basis for its activities. In practical terms, this means that the activities encompass all aspects of men’s health, including their physical, mental, spiritual, and cultural wellbeing. The men receive strength/conditioning evaluations and training, cooking and nutrition classes, education on traditional Māori parenting, psychological pitstops, experience with traditional Māori weaponry, and lessons about their Whakapapa (genealogy) and Whenua (their connection to the land). 

The TOA programme thusly, gives men an opportunity to re-connect to cultural imperatives, physical exercise, great role models and a peer group that will support them to take their roles as sons, brothers, fathers and partners in the various contexts and realities of their societies. Check the 5 minute video link out below for a much deeper understanding of TOA.

This programme is overseen by a Stakeholder Group made up of key community champions and organizations with a shared commitment to achieving Tāne Ora. 

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