<p style="text-align:center"><img alt="Gill Potaka-Osborne" src="/uploads/images/Gill-Potaka-Osborne.jpg" style="height:461px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; width:276px" /></p>

<p style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-size:12px">Gill at her graduation with three of her eight mokopuna;<br />
from left: Awanuiarangi Pirikahu-Tawhitapou, Taiana-Grace and Te Atarau Raupita.</span></em></p>

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<p>In mid-May, Whakauae&rsquo;s Gill Potaka-Osborne was conferred with her Postgraduate Diploma in Social Sector Evaluation Research (with Merit) following two years of intensive part-time study. The Postgraduate Diploma was awarded at Massey University&rsquo;s Hui Whakah&#333;nore P&#333;taetanga &#256;konga M&#257;ori held at the Regent Theatre in Broadway, Palmerston North. Members of Gill&rsquo;s wh&#257;nau were there to share in the celebrations together with her Whakauae colleagues. Gill was one of three graduates from Te &#256;ti Haunui-a-P&#257;p&#257;rangi and among 24 M&#257;ori graduates from the University&rsquo;s Te Kura P&#363;kenga Tangata College of Humanities and Social Sciences.</p>

<p>Gill&rsquo;s study towards the Postgraduate Diploma in Social Sector Evaluation Research has benefited hugely from, and been informed by, the evaluation work she has conducted over the past eight years. As a member of the wider Whakauae evaluation team, Gill has worked closely with a range of M&#257;ori health service providers and with M&#257;ori focussed programmes being delivered under the umbrella of organisations such as the Whanganui and Taranaki District Health Boards and Sport Whanganui. We wish Gill all the best with her future study goals.&nbsp;</p>

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