MIKA HAKA FOUNDATION Annual Report 1 APRIL 2015 - 31 MARCH 2016 Charities Commission Registration No: CC37494 GST Number: 100 572 850 WEB www.mhf.co.nz EMAIL [email protected] PHONE +649 620 6111 MHF HQ 111B May Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland POSTAL PO Box 90-408, Auckland 1142 2015-16 MHF 02 Successes include: INDEPENDENT NATIONAL MAORI SUICIDE PREVENTION EVALUATION FOR THE AROHA PROJECT THE AROHA FESTIVAL OVER 20 EVENTS, HUNDREDS PARTICIPATE, 65,000+ AUDIENCES MAORI WELCOMES OF MARIAH CAREY AND DEMI LOVATO NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF SAGINAW GRANT BECOMES A FOUNDATION GLOBAL ELDER GLOBAL FILM FESTIVALS; IMAGINATIVE FILM FESTIVAL (TORONTO), SAN DIEGO FILM FESTIVAL AND SXSW (AUSTIN TEXAS) CAPACITY BUILDING: TWO TE REO MUSIC ALBUMS RELEASED CAPACITY BUILDING SCREEN PROFESSIONALS INTO MATIKA MAORI TV HEALTH SERIES AND TANIWHA (SHORT FILM) KA LIFE JOINS MICHELLE OBAMA’S HEALTHIER AMERICA INITIATIVE WITH NYC BASED HIP HOP PUBLIC HEALTH MATIKA 03 Contents Memoriam & Honouring 4 Founder | Executive Director’s Report 5 Ethos | Kaupapa History | Whakapapa Mission | Whakatanga Principles | Mātāpono Trust Objectives 6 Board of Trustees 7 Funders, Sponsors & Supporters 8 MHF Team 9 Independent mental health evaluation from 14 National Maori Provider Te Rau Matatini Outcomes: Professional Development 15 • Emerging leaders program creating future leaders Outcomes: Health 23 • Physical and Mental Health using arts, creativity and popular culture Outcomes: Projects 31 YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER’S • Bringing Health and Professional development WITH HIGH POTENTIAL AND together in a variety of diverse programs LOTS OF TALENT, WHO CAN’T Outcomes: Maori 52 AFFORD TO ACHIEVE IT, COME • We believe all of us benefit by engaging with TO MIKA HAKA FOUNDATION Maori. Here Te Reo and Tikanga are shared – THE DREAM MAKERS and explored The Future 67 Financial Statements 68 Honouring 04 Our Elders Photo Credit: Mika and Bruce Leadley at Timaru Boys High School Old Boys Association function Chief Saginaw Grant This year we honoured elders E NGĀ MATE, HAERE, HAERE, JONAH LOMU who have supported diversity HAERE Jonah sent a ‘good luck Email’ for and human rights. 76 year old IN MEMORIAM Bruce Leadley, Mika’s teacher the Torotoro dancer’s tour at the at Timaru Boys High School in The board and our MHF whanau Edinburgh Fringe in 2003 and in the 70’s. It was brave to ‘come- acknowledge the passing of our 2005 came on stage to perform out’ at a predominantly white friends the haka at the Bledisloe Cup with all-boys school back then and so Foundation youth at Eden Park. when this year 9 Maori boy gave Ka tiro hāere me te koa ō te a Gay rights speech at TBHS, it ngākau. Ki te kite I wēra e tau nei. DR RANGINUI WALKER was Bruce who defended the Ka mahara ake ki wēra I kaitahi ai I Unbeknown to Mika, Dr Ranginui boys actions and supported him mua. Me te whakaaro pai - Ka tō te Walker was a big fan of his TV though school. Mika honoured rā - ka rere te rā - he rā ano. Ia rā e Shows and the two got to work Bruce this year when he retired ora nei tātou me tīhei maurioratia. together on the Gareth Morgan from the TBHS Old Boys Assoc. E pono hoki ki te kaupapa whakahirahira nei. Te oranga - Ara, ‘Treaty Talks’ series. Native American Chief Saginaw haumi e, hui e, taiki e! Mika states, “Both Jonah and Grant also supported the Dr Walker leave an imprint in foundation and agreed to be a We come together to be with those NZ souls. They did so much, global elder during a naming we care about - we look around and spoke their own truths. I am ceremony at the foundations HQ and are happy, in our hearts, to honoured and humbled to have where he met 5 young people of see the ones we are with today. known such legends”. Maori Native American descent. We remember those who we once Mika and Jay Tewake were also shared meals with and wish them honoured in a naming ceremony well. Today is not yesterday - and witnessed by the young men of tomorrow cannot be today - for the foundation. each day we live is a life worth living. Staying true to what matters most, life. Haumi e, hui e, taiki e! Jonah Lomu Dr Ranginui Walker Executive Director’s 05 Report I LOVE OUTCASTS, REBELS, MISFITS, THOSE WHO DON’T FIT AND THOSE WHO DREAM. SEEING DIFFERENTLY IS A GIFT. ALL GREAT THINGS COME FROM THE ABILITY TO THINK FREELY, WITHOUT RESTRAINT. LET YOUNG PEOPLE EVOLVE. I SEE THEM ALL AS GENIUSES. HELP US HELP THEM MAKE GREAT THINGS AND LIVE HEALTHY, FULFILLED LIVES. – MIKA 2016 marks our 8th In 2015 a hub for creative Naku noa, na innovation, hosted events, led anniversary. wananga (workshops/classes), and produced screen media in The Foundation has been a order to achieve one specific contributor towards career and outcome; raise awareness around skill development for youth in the suicide prevention and anti- arts and health initiatives since bullying programmes to create 2008. An incubator that develops positive health outcomes that and sustains innovation, “chilled” encourage creative freedom. tikanga Māori and fresh thinking on new, trending and advancing Community support from concepts currently focused on across the globe embraced Mika, MHF Kaitiaki/Executive music, dance, interactive and new The Aroha Project. The project Director media projects. reached Maori and Asian as well as straight (Heterosexual) and The Foundation’s core Kā health LGBTQ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and well-being initiative has Transgender, Intersex and merged with the USA Hip Hop Questioning youth. Marginalized Public Health with a new focus on youth, common victims of suicide suicide awareness and bullying or on-going bullying. prevention. As the foundation grows so too Our high potential Emerging are our challenges, which we face Leaders Programme has grown, head on and without hesitation. with this year receiving the most There is much great work to do applications ever to be part of our and we love it. free mentoring programs. 06 Trust Objectives HEALTHY LIVES = HEALTHY ARTS CAREERS DIVERSITY, SUSTAINABILITY, EMPOWERMENT FOR ALL NEW ZEALANDERS The purpose of the Mika Haka embrace non-smoking, anti- our work and our community. Foundation Charitable Trust is to violence, healthy living and We believe that education and support and encourage, in various positive life choices. employment, combined with ways, the development and KAUPAPA cultural, creative and physical discussion of, and public interaction wellbeing, will bring personal with, different aspects of native The Mika Haka Foundation invites success. cultures. Our work is designed for people of diverse ethnicities, the benefit of the native cultures cultures, sexualities and religions, Wehi and the wider community. We living in Aotearoa/New Zealand, We want to ignite the minds of address various issues of benefit to find pathways towards better young people, encouraging them to native cultures and the wider health and education opportunities in their passions. community. In promoting this through physical culture and the Tapu Takitahi general purpose the Trust will, performing arts. without limitation, also: We aim to provide young people We believe in the sacred nature of the self. Being a leader to yourself • provide support to native cultures with direction and create an first will allow you to lead others. by working on projects that aim to understanding of self-discipline and boundaries. Māori refer to this bring about social change that is Manākitanga beneficial to themselves and the as Tikanga. This direction helps We work together, care for one wider community; to empower young people to set goals and take responsibility for another, and respect each other. • support, record and promote the their own lives. We promote healthy Whakapapa dissemination of new thought on living and always aim to lead by ‘What does native culture mean to example. The Mika Haka Foundation (MHF) is New Zealand?’ and related issues; a charitable trust formed to deliver We want to provide an environment the inclusive vision of successful • support, record and promote of inspiration, encouraging dreams Māori artist and entertainer, Mika, the Takatāpui cultural history and the idea that nothing is of an extraordinary future for of Aotearoa and encourage impossible – to push yourself to all young New Zealanders – in dissemination of this information new heights, to have no fear of particular, young people from and knowledge to the wider failure and to be in a constant state diverse backgrounds and minority community; support, record of learning. and promote the ongoing communities. The Foundation was development of all art forms KOTAHITANGA MĀ RE formed in 2008 to consolidate and expand programmes that Mika from the perspective of native REREKĒTANGA UNITY established through the pioneering cultures so that it benefits such THROUGH DIFFERENCE native cultures and the wider work of the Torotoro Trust between community; MĀTĀPONO 2001 and 2008. MHF continues to develop these performance • support and promote events, Our work is guided by five Māori and physical activity based activities, projects and discussion principles: programmes to benefit greater amongst the youth that is aimed Whanaungatanga numbers of young New Zealanders. at promoting native cultures and geared to working in unity for the We are collaborative in nature Whakatakanga benefit of the native cultures and and believe that we are stronger The Mika Haka Foundation exists to the wider community; and together. ignite young minds and transform • support and promote, amongst Mana Tangata bodies towards better lives through native cultures and the wider the performing arts and physical We take pride in ourselves, community, a commitment to culture. 07 Board of Trustees The objective of the Mika Haka Foundation trustees is to support and encourage the development and direction of the foundation, and the discussion of native culture for the benefit of those cultures in Aotearoa | New Zealand and the global community.