Te Kaihanga is the Maori word for builder or creator, physical or otherwise. Between the late 1960s and the 1990s, thousands of Maori teenagers came from New Zealand’s North Island to study and work in Christchurch (South Island) under a program run by New Zealand’s now defunct Maori Affairs Department. These teenagers trained for 1-2 […]

is a start-up that aims to mobilise a skilled Maori trade labour force to create better opportunities for tradespeople by working cooperatively. Members currently deliver trade services in the residential building sector and this will be the cooperative’s primary market.