Member Achievements
Te Apa Mareikura Scholar 2011
Paula Moyle – Ngati Porou, Te Whanau a Tuwhakairiora
Paula Moyle’s early life experience as a New Zealand State Ward resulted in significant cultural alienation. Her work experience as a volunteer or lowly paid worker in Women’s Refuge, Rape Crisis, and as a chippie with a Trades Certificate in an all-male gang, heightened her community and social awareness. These experiences developed keen feminist and collectivist positioning, expertise in family violence prevention and led her to Victoria University where she earned a Diploma of Social Work in 1999.
Exceptional Maori Women earn Te Apa Mareikura Awards
Every year, a select number of applicants to the Ministry of Health’s Hauora Māori scholarship programme are awarded a Te Apa Māreikura Award. In 2011, from xxx successful Hauora Māori scholars, two students received Te Apa Māreikura Awards and celebrated with whānau in Wellington at a special event hosted by the Associate Minister of Health, Tariana Turia.
Te Apa Māreikura Awards were established under the Ministry’s Hauora Māori scholarship programme to commemorate four prominent Māori community leaders, Rongo Wirepa, Anne Delamare, Denis Simpson and Bill Katene, and their contribution to Māori health gains. Recipients of the Te Apa Māreikura Awards, each worth $10,000, demonstrate leadership in community health, have strong connections to and involvement with their communities, and are achieving academically excellence.
This year’s Te Apa Māreikura Awards went to Paula Moyle (Ngāti Porou) who is studying at Massey University and Michelle Turrall (Ngāi Tahu) who is studying at the University of Otago.
