This booklet is a resource for strangthening whanau / families. It includes text in te reo Māori and English.

"Ko te whānau te hunga tuturu o i a iwi, Tōku whānau tōku piringa, Tōku whānau tōku oranga, Tōku whānau tōku mana tiketike.

The focus at the moment across the motu is on strengthening the wellbeing of whanau / families. This has come at a time when there is an urgent need to work with whanau / families in a manner that stimulates your whānau / family potential and enables you to reaffirm your purpose, dignity, responsibility, and self--worth as a whānau / family. The challenge is to touch yyour lives in an excitin meaningful manner and to promote an understanding that you can take charge of your destiny. This requires a new approach that enables you and your whānau / family to harness the strengths within. This E Tu Whānau booklet, titled 'Kōrero Awhi' is a promising start to this end by sowing the seeds of respect, warmth, care, thoughtfulness, success and joy in and around each member of your whānau / family." (Foreword by Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tawhiwhirangi)