Kia Ora

Kia Ora. My name is Val, and I am an alcoholic. My home group is the Te Hokinga Mai Group, which means "the return home" in Maori. I was born in a town called Rotorua in the country of New Zealand. I am the third oldest in a large Maori family, or whanau, of six brothers and five sisters. We didn't have a lot of luxuries growing up. Fishing, hunting, and gathering food off the land was our way of life.