Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tagata Pasifika

The Pacific voice on
New Zealand television
since 1987

Tuakana Wichman – Cook Islands Super Nanny

Gran the Builder is Cook Islands Great Granny (Mama) Tuakana Wichman. She just oves to help people and if she sees someone in need and she has the means to help that person, she’ll do so.

This quest has taken her on Habitat for Humanities Global Village Build projects to Bangladesh and Vietnam. While most may think that at the age of 80+ she’d be doing light chores like cleaning and making cups of tea, this is not the case with Tuakana. She likes to be right in the thick of it – getting up up the roof with her hammer and laying bricks with mortar.

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