T onga Hello Malo e lelei Tonga has three main island groups They are Tongatapu Vavau and Haapai Looking out of the plane window to some of the islands of Tonga down below ID: 305488
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Caritas helping out in TongaSlide2
Hello – Malo
e lelei
Tonga has three main island groups. They are
Tongatapu
,
Vava’u
and
Ha’apai.Slide3
Looking out of the plane window to some of the islands of Tonga down below.
Tonga is in the Pacific Ocean.Slide4
Caritas is helping families
We are helping to support families earn some money.
The money pays for important needs like school fees, food and doctors bills.The money helps people.Slide5
Here are two of the ways we are helping
Tapa making and mat weavingSlide6
Caritas Tonga and
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand working together.
Caritas is helping 13 women’s groups to make and sell beautiful
tapa
cloth. It can be sold to people in USA, Australia and New Zealand.Slide7Slide8
How to make tapa-ngatu
1. Cut the stems of the mulberry –
hiapo
bushes.
2. Peel off the bark leaving tutu. Soak the tutu in water.Slide9
Tapa making
3. Beat the strips flat to make wide strips – feta’aki
.4. Everyone joins in the
tapa
beating over many days. Slide10Slide11
Tapa making
5. They are rolled up to dry.
6. The fun starts with smoothing on the glue
paste made from cassava.Slide12
Pasting the feta’akiSlide13
Tapa making
When it is dry and flat as a large mat, a pattern is painted using vegetable dyes.Slide14
Uses for tapa-ngatu
Today tapa is used for weddings and funerals.
Tourists buy tapa-ngatu to use back home.
Tapa
is used for dancing costumes.
See on the next page.Slide15
Lisa has made a dancing costume
It has
tapa, shells and pine needles.Slide16
Look at the handwork on the dance costumeSlide17
Making mats from pandanus leaves
People also make mats. The mats are made from the dried leaves of the
pandanus plant. Mats are an important tradition in Tonga. Caritas is helping to support mat weaving.Slide18
Thank you! Malo
Aupito! Slide19
Theme for Lent 2013
Tongan
Tau pau’iho’otui’
Talaki
loto
to’a
Mo’ui fiefia.
English
Follow
faithfully the way
Tell courageously the truth
Live joyfully the
life. Slide20
Acknowledgements
We thanks to all those who agreed to have their photo taken. Photography by Emily Benefield and Leo Duce, Caritas
Aotearoa New Zealand staff.Slide21
www.caritas.org.nz
2013