When he was four weeks old, Mana was placed into foster care. The first years of his life were marked with fear, violence and isolation as he was moved from home to home until he was lucky taken in by loving foster parents. Māori make up 59 percent of children in state care. How can rangatahi find their own sense of whānau when theirs is fractured?
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