Healthy Hikurangi

Healthy Hikurangi is an active community project in its 5^th year of implementation with a strong focus on:

Strengthening the relationships of the Hikurangi community with primary health care and social service providers
Reducing the risk of both cardiovascular disease and diabetes

Each month a community steering group meets to plan and implement a number of projects in support of improving the health and wellbeing of whanau and families of Hikurangi community.

Highlights of this year have been:

completion of the external evaluation stated that overall the Healthy Hikurangi project has achieved and excelled as a model of health promotion
the building of raised vegetable gardens at the Kindergarten
Providing weekly physical activity classes (tai chi, body combat, taekwondo)
supporting monthly nutrition workshops