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The containers house generators, portable loos and showers and BBQs.

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Iwi and Māori health providers are looking towards the next pandemic with a new research project.

Iwi and Māori health providers in the top of the South have launched a research project to better understand the voices of Māori and their experiences throughout the Covid-19 pandemic

An iwi trust that’s been supporting whānau through Covid has expanded its role of kaitūhono (navigators) to support families beyond those in isolation

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Iwi across the top of the South Island are now well equipped to be part of the official emergency management response in the event of a disaster.

Educating people that the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out was not "two and done" is the focus of Marlborough health staff as they try to lift booster shots, particularly for Māori and Pasifika populations.

"It’s amazing, it just shows when your whānau are receiving good information they can make good decisions."

The eight Te Tauihu iwi collectively mandated an iwi-led response plan, working alongside Civil Defence and crown organisations, to minimise risk to iwi and Māori across the top of the South Island. She said the response had galvanised iwi across the top of the south to work on shared issues that, though they became acute during the lockdown, predated Covid. “Covid, like with everybody, was a big kick for us to rethink priorities,” she said. MARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF The eight iwi of Te Ta...