“If you don’t speak Mäori, who will teach me?” created by Te Kura Kaupapa Mäori o Ngäti Kahungunu o Te Wairoa students. Te Wairoa Reorua 2040 “Kia ora everyone, nau mai, hoki mai, leading your news bulletin tonight: Wairoa officially becomes the first bilingual town in Aotearoa”. This is the news headline that will be greeting TV viewers in the year 2040, or even sooner than that, thanks to Te Wairoa Reorua 2040. Te Wairoa Reorua 2040 is the vision of four kaitiaki organisations, Te Kura Motuhake o Te Ataarangi, Ngä Köhanga Reo o te rohe o Te Wairoa, Te Kura Kaupapa Mäori o Ngäti Kahungunu o Te Wairoa and Te Taiwhenua o Te Wairoa. Together with the Human Rights Commission, they are working on a strategy to set their community on the path to becoming bilingual by 2040. The local kura and köhanga reo in Wairoa often reported that people encountered barriers to speaking te reo Mäori when they were in the community. The aim of Te Wairoa Reorua is to enable Mäori, English and other languages to be valued and kept alive in and around Wairoa. In 2013, Te Wairoa Reorua 2040 marked its first year. It hopes that by 2040 reo will be spoken in most homes and in the street, that schools will deliver their curriculum in te reo Mäori and there will be regular use of reo in local shops and workplaces. Tüi Tüi Tuituiä | Race Relations in 2013 55