The New Zealand China Māori Friendship Charitable Trust
(Chin-Māo) is a not for profit organisation formalised in 2002 to promote relationships based on friendship and mutual understanding between New Zealand Māori and the peoples of China.
Our Aim
Our aim is to facilitate friendly relationships and cultural understanding between our two peoples.Our Trustees are guided by the objectives set out in the New Zealand China Māori Friendship Charitable Trust Deed which are committed to developing relationships in three main areas:
• Friendships and cultural understanding
• Social development
• Economic opportunities
Chin-Māo is an organisation whose members work hard to form and nurture relationships between iwi and hapu groups and the Chinese Peoples.
Since 1984 the focus has been on hosting and leading friendship delegations as we believe this reflects the Māori and Chinese preference to meet each other and build a relationship based on mutual understanding, thereby assisting each other with opportunities or initiatives that are mutually beneficial.
Our experience in facilitating reciprocal delegations with the Chinese Peoples Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) spans 28 years and has enabled Chin-Māo to build strong person to person networks both in China and within Māori whanau, hapu and Iwi.
Our current focus includes developing relationships between Kura Kaupapa Māori and Minority Peoples schools in China through establishing internet relationships, teaching of Chinese languages in our kura and Māori in the Chinese schools and cultural exchanges that will lead to teacher and student exchanges and the promotion of business developments between Māori and Chinese organisations and people.
The Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), known in China as YOUXIE, has established Friendship relationships with more than 160 countries worldwide, and fully supports Chin-Māo’s objectives.
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Hiwi was supported in this endeavour by his wife Pat and together they hosted many exchange delegations. Over the years each of the Tauroa children has become involved in Chin-Māo and today Chin-Māo is a whanau driven organisation.
Rewi Alley, a New Zealander, came to China in 1927. Sharing wealth and woe with the Chinese people, he devoted 60 years of his life to Chinese people’s cause of liberation and construction. In the 1930s, he joined an international Marxist-Leninist group in Shanghai and wrote many articles publicizing the Chinese people’s resistance against Japanese aggressors. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he took an active part in and was one of the sponsors of the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement that became a unique economic force that emerged by organizing the unemployed workers and refugees into production and survival and in support of the Resistance War. After the founding of New China, he dedicated his efforts to safeguard world peace and the cause of friendship among the peoples of the world, making important contributions to developing friendship between the Chinese people and the people of New Zealand and other countries.