We have selected 10 Ambassadors after a rigorous selection process. These tamariki showed a genuine passion and clear initiatives that they wanted to lead within Te Kura o Manga Kawari. We have a direction for what we want to achieve within our kura and wider community that is all child-led. Our 10 Ambassadors are as follows:

Cerys Flye: Ko Cerys Flye ahau. I am Cerys Flye. I am excited to be an SDG Ambassador this year. I am currently in year 7 and know we need to make a big change in the way we do things... let us imagine...

You have no food or home to go to, where do you go? Or you are out fishing one day and out on the ocean for hours and still don't catch anything. Can you guess why that is happening? I am passionate about changing the way we use transport. Biking to school was something we pushed the last 2 terms, but we need more buy-in. Use public transport, do anything but use a car that uses fuel. Let's make a change! 

Seth Heslop: Hi I am Seth. I am Year 6 and am proud to be an SDG ambassador. My brother and I came up with the initiative to put bike racks at the beach, so we can bike to the beach instead of using our cars and not be worried about bike security. This will be the SDG Ambassadors' first task this term. 

Cormac Heslop: Hi my name is Cormac and I am in Year 2. I am a SDG Ambassador. I am passionate about saving the environment. I want to be able to bike to the beach with my family. 

Hazel O'Steen: Hi my name is Hazel and I am in Year 6. I have always been passionate about the environment so it is beautiful for years to come. I was one of the tamariki who came up with the biking school bus from Waikuku in Terms 4 and 1. I wanted to help tamariki be healthy and also reduce our carbon footprint. But to be honest there is so much I am passionate about! These are my big ideas: Teach people how to grow their own food to help with the cost of living; Plant more flowers for the bees; Reuse trash and make it into cool stuff. 

Willow Mathis-Pearson: Hi my name is Willow and I am in Year 2. I am Kaitiaki and I love this world. If we don't look after this world it will all turn into rubbish. I want less plastic in the ocean so our animals stay alive, I want to make bug hotels and I want people to not buy plastic at all. If we keep buying it, they keep making it!

Grace Lovelock: Hi my name is Grace Lovelock and I am in Year 6. I want to make a change in our community. I want everyone to know how to grow their own food so it is healthier and cheaper; I want to teach people how to reuse rubbish, or how to be Kaitiaki so the things we buy last longer and don't break.  Also, we should have 4th bin which is for food scraps for pigs and chickens so there is no waste. I want to see less plastic food wrapping or individual packets so we are reducing the rubbish we use. 

Izzie Coster: Hello my name is Izzie and I am in year 6. I am an SDG ambassador because I strongly believe that the earth is in no state to live a happy life for all people. Knowing that everyone is safe and have the same opportunities is something I am really passionate about. 

Quinn Duffy: Kia ora my name is Quinn Duffy and I am an SDG Ambassador. I am in Year 6 and I am 10 years old. My goal is to really make a difference. I want to do something big to help save our planet and the people on it. I am excited to make a change in our community. For the last year, I have been a recycling monitor and have loved learning about how we can make a change by being aware. 

Maya Kneebone: Hi my name is Maya and I am in Year 7. For the last year, I have been a Recycling monitor and I loved learning so much. Do you know what bugs me? Everyone wants things now-trendy things. Look at Crocs, they are trending now but they aren't sustainable at all. All the little plastic things you can put on them, and people just keep on buying them and after a while, a new trend comes along and where does the old trend go? In the rubbish. I want us to be responsible producers and consumers, that is one goal I am really passionate about. 

Eden Peacock: Hi my name is Eden, I am in Year 7. I am excited to be an SDG Ambassador because we must meet the goals in order to create a better future on this earth. I know if we don't make a stand and do something, there will be no future. I am the next generation and I will fight to bring a brighter future. I am passionate about creating a world that has equitable opportunities for all, especially around no poverty.