Episode 1 - Ngawaina Joy The Woven Women

I am Loren Pasquier and you are listening to The Woven Women.Our first Chapter is called Wāhine, which means woman in Te Reo Māori, Māori language, and it is here, in New Zealand that I met the first four women on this journey. In this first episode, we meet Ngawaina Joy. Raised by her grandmother and aunties and uncles, she recounts how her whanau spoiled her with love, not wealth growing up. From watching her grandmother weave to stories about kai, Joy was always surrounded by the comforts ...