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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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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Free self-defence class for Muslim women
The Christchurch mosque attacks have sharply highlighted issues faced by New Zealand’s Islam community. Both before and after the shootings of March 15, Dunedin Muslim women reported on social media of people grabbing at their hijab, or head scarf. Dunedin self-defence teacher Bell Murphy is now offering a free class specifically for women who…
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Invercargill hosts Women’s Self Defence Network national training event
A group of women keen on teaching girls self defence have descended on Invercargill as the city plays host to a Women’s Self Defence Network national training event. The group of 11 women selected from throughout the country arrived in Invercargill on Friday for an eight-day training course for women’s self defence instructors. Network…
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Self-defence course for mums and daughters
There will be a one-day Mothers and Daughters self-defence workshop in North East Valley on March 11th, taught by Bell Murphy, an accredited member of The Women’s Self Defence Network–Wāhine Toa (WSDN-WT). The course will provide a fun, supportive space for mums and daughters to learn and practice simple techniques—mental, verbal and physical—which anyone…
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Five hours of self-defence lessons could save your life
As investments go, self-defence courses cost little, and have been proven to offer real protection against sexual assault or violence. Nearly 300 year 10 girls are being taught basic but effective self-defence in an annual series of workshops run by the Women’s Self Defence Network Wahine Toa, at Palmerston North Girls’ High School. Tutor…
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Sexual violence workshop’s focus
Tackling the “complex issue” of sexual violence was the aim of agencies that attended a workshop at the Edgar Centre on Thursday. About 12 agencies represented by 20 people participated in the regional workshop hosted by Rape Crisis Otago and Te Ohaakii a Hine – National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together. Rape Crisis Otago…
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Class aims to give women confidence
Women of the Otago Peninsula have an opportunity to take part in a free self-defence class next month. The class is being run by an accredited member of the Women’s Self Defence Network, Bell Murphy, and the cost is covered by funding from the Ministry of Justice. Ms Murphy said the key message was…