Nau mai, piki mai, kake mai, whakatau mai rā!
Nau mai, piki mai, kake mai, whakatau mai rā!
Welcome to the Mahi Pai Website! We are the believers in young achievers and positive futures!
Our dream is that all tamariki are positive self-believers and experience a world filled with love, happiness and connectedness. A world where they can thrive and feel empowered to be unique, have a strong sense of self identity and be confident lifelong achievers of success.
We love to encourage children to use their imagination and visualisations where they harness the most powerful tool they have “their minds” through positive affirmations tamariki learn the magic of manifestation and how dreams come true.
Each of the Mahi Pai characters have special attributes that tamariki resonate with
Our mahi pai range of merchandise are not just products each have powerful messaging and learning outcomes for tamariki in areas of education, health, language, culture, diversity, equity, self-belief and empowerment.
The Mahi Pai shoes
The mahi pai shoes have special features such as chargers for the lights, secret codes and special affects they are the; “Ka taea – I can shoes” range, tamariki can scan the QR codes and the taniwha have special encouraging “I can” messages, reels and jingles such as “I can do it”, “E tu rangatira au”, “I can run fast” “I stand tall” The mahi pai clothing is the “Ko au- I am” range which also feature powerful self-messages, reels, jingles of “Ko au-I am” “I am strong” “I am a winner” “I try my best” ‘I am so clever” “ He rangatira ahau” “He kaitoa ahau”
The Mahi Pai health range
The Mahi Pai health range of products include special taniwha soap and magic taniwha bath dust etc, the soap is made of all natural products that use special aromatherapy to trigger and encourage different emotions and behaviours. Also featuring QR codes that teach tamariki in fun tutorials how to wash and dry their hands properly, for this reason the soap is made of very bright colours so that tamariki can see if they cover all of their hands with soap while washing and the bright colours create a fun way to enjoy washing your body and hair!
Mahi Pai education resources
The Mahi pai education resources promote te reo Maori and NZ sign language. The Mahi pai kete matauranga is made up of ten kaupapa. Each of the kaupapa are taught with fun accelerated learning strategies that feature a digital component of upbeat waiata, waiata video clips, reo tutorials, sign language tutorials, dance tutorials, teaching tutorials, downloadable workbooks, colouring books, certificates, e-books and the hardpacks contain story books, board games, puzzles, flashcards, posters, monitoring charts and talking taniwha. As participants reach the completion of all ten kaupapa the Mahi pai taniwha visit the learning setting and celebrate by performing a live show! All kaupapa are aligned with learning objectives and outcomes with the NZ curriculum and Te Whariki curriculum.
Mahi Pai live shows have reached more than 60,000 tamariki In Aotearoa and Australia, we know that children learn best when they are having fun, the Mahi pai live show is full unbridled exhilarating action packed fun! The show is promotes te reo Maori and NZ sign language. All of the performers are talented world stage dancers and bring lots of high energy dance and kapa haka to the stage!
85,000 in severe material hardship
224,000 in poverty
We celebrate all cultures of world
We are strong advocates of children’s rights- UNCROC United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child. UNCRPD means the United Nations Convention on the rights of person with disabilities. Our unique approach for learning, intrinsic, holistic, indigenous!
We offer a diverse range of accelerated learning strategies from visual, auditory and kinaesthetic Mātauranga Māori is woven into our learning programme through cultural movement embodying expressive art forms, Pūrākau transmitting ideas to inspire and create, Toi Māori designing a visual story, and Te Tai Ao a connection to place giving perspectives to the world around us.
Hui e Taiki e!
A comprehensive educational platform to learn Te Reo Māori and Te Reo Rotarota, the official sign language of Aotearoa.