An Aurora Education Foundation mentoring programme for boys gave a group of 19 students a “cool” experience aboard the Tairāwhiti waka hourua.
The programme, run in collaboration with Tairāwhiti Voyaging Trust, was designed to give the boys a positive experience led by male role models - getting them out of the classroom and on to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa Poverty Bay.
While onboard, they learned...