Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety Education
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Migrant women empowered by learning self-defence
A long-running self-defence programme that claims to have reached more than half a million women nationwide is adjusting to life with reduced funding. Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety Education’s network of trained instructors has delivered self-defence education to schools and communities throughout New Zealand for more than 30 years. However, Oranga Tamariki funding ceased…
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Te Araroa: Teaching while tramping
If you or someone you know is out hiking Te Araroa this summer, you might strike it lucky and stumble upon Imogen Coxhead – empowerment self-defence kaiako/instructor out in the wild. She’s been out in the backcountry since 5 December 2022 hiking the 3000 km trail on her Hikoi Whakamana – Walk for Empowerment,…
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Labour Tukituki MP Anna Lorck gives self-defence training a go
A programme of self-defence classes for young women in Hawke’s Bay is proving popular, with one of the region’s MPs even tagging along to pick up some skills. The Kia Haumaru programme, which has been taught across the region, is run by instructor Brie Sergeant, who says that along with learning self-defence and awareness,…
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Imogen’s Hīkoi Whakamana – Walk for Empowerment
Imogen is a Kia Haumaru Personal Safety Education kaiako walking the length of Aotearoa to raise funds for and awareness of Kia Haumaru. She writes: “I am walking Te Araroa to raise funds for and awareness of Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety Education, which works to promote a safe and respectful society free from…
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30 Years Of Self-defence, Now We Need Your Help
After 30 years of providing free and accessible empowerment self-defence training to girls, women and members of the LGBTTQIA+ community across Aotearoa, Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety Education is launching its first Crowdfunder! Recipients of the 2022 “Generosity Generator” mentorship programme run in partnership by The Funding Network, Givealittle and Chorus; Kia Haumaru is…
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Power through Movement
Our kaiarahi, Roxy Coervers and one of our kaiako, Vivian Chandra were guests on the Guilty Feminist Podcast! Episode 288 Power through Movement with Jessica Fostekew, Lexy Seedhouse, Greer Forde-MacNaughton, Roxy Coervers and Vivian Chandra Recorded 7 December via Zoom. Released 10 January 2022 The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by…
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Kia Haumaru – King Country News
Two years of ongoing and occasionally prolonged lockdowns are taking their toll on women in relationships and their children. Family violence notifications have increased in volume, frequency and severity, so much so that intervention workers and agencies are calling it the “Shadow Pandemic”. Roxy Coervers is kaiarahi (manager) of Kia Haumaru – Personal Safety…
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Year 3 and 4 Girls Self Defence
Instilling confidence in our 7 and 8 year old girls. On Monday and Wednesday the Year three and four girls from the Middle Syndicate went to a girls self defence course to learn to keep ourselves and other people safe if we were ever in a bad situation. We had a really kind and…
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We made our own safety video for women
In the latest episode of On The Rag, based on the podcast of the same name, watch as Alex Casey, Michèle A’Court and Leonie Hayden get real about women and safety. Fasten your seatbelts and hold onto your tits, the seventh episode of On the Rag is all about safety. What did we learn…
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Spike in demand for New Zealand self-defence courses
A New Zealand self-defence network is seeking more funding after a large increase in demand for classes. The Women’s Self-Defence Network – Wahine Toa has seen a 50 percent increase in five years for its courses. In 2015, the network taught 8000 students a year, and in 2018 that rose to 12,000. Annie Tupaea…