Connecting Cook Island kids with their roots
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New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) | April 2, 2009 | Copyright

Hula skirts, island drums and a positive attitude are some of the ways Charlie Williams has helped his community to remember its roots.

Mr Williams, 59, has been helping young Cook Islanders in West Auckland understand their culture through song, dance and traditional activities for the past 13 years.

As a community worker and treasurer for Nor Western Cook Island Taokotai, he helps organise youth camps where youngsters learn traditional Cook Islands dancing, music and language.

``Our young people are very important. We speak our reo to them so we ...

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