"Haere mai i ngā hau e whā, e te manawa, e manawa ki runga ki ēnei tāngata kua mate nei, kia ora ai rātou...
ā ka uru te manawa ki roto i a rātou, ā ka ora rātou… ā tu ana ō rātou waewae ki runga.”
Ezekiel 37: 9-10

Paipa a Sam K
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I te tau 1941, i tae mai a Samuel Klagsbrun, he wahine nō Belgian, ki te Tāone o Niu Ioka me ōna mātua, ā, ko te reo Wīwī anake tana reo i kōrero ai, i muri i tana mawhiti mai i te whakatoi i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao. I konei ka tīmata anō tōna whānau i ō rātou oranga, ka mahue iho i a rātou te oranga pumau i Ūropi. I ako a Samuel i te mahi taimana i tōna matua, engari ehara i te mea koinā tana hiahia. I mahi ia hei kaiako hei oranga mōna, me te whai i tōna ngākau kia noho hei tohunga hinengaro. I whiwhi a Tākuta Klagsbrun i tana whakangungu hinengaro i Yale, i mahi hei Tumuaki Hinengaro i te US Naval Submarine Base i New London, Connecticut, kātahi ka whakatuwhera i tētahi mahi tūmataiti i te Tāone o Niu Ioka.

I rapu ia i tētahi wāhi tika hei whakatū i tētahi hōhipera hinengaro tūmataiti. I hiahia ia ki tētahi wāhi e tuku ana i tētahi taiao maimoatanga rerekē i te taiao hōhipera noa, e taea ai e ia te noho whakamarie ki te hōhipera i ana ake tūroro.

I te tau 1978, i hokona e Samuel Klagsbrun, MD, te Hōhipera o Four Winds i Westchester, me te tirohanga mārama: ki te waihanga i tētahi wāhi e whakakotahi ana i te taumata teitei o te tiaki haumanu me te aroha nui ki ngā tūroro me ō rātou whānau kei roto i tētahi taiao ataahua, he rite ki te kāmpus. I te whakawhānui ake i te tirohanga a Tākuta Klagsbrun ki te raki o New York, i whakatuwheratia e Four Winds tētahi atu hōhipera i Saratoga Springs i te tau 1986.

Mai anō i te tīmatanga, ko te whāinga a Tākuta Klagsbrun he hanga i tētahi taiao whakaora, manaaki hoki, e manaakitia ai ngā tūroro me te whakaute, me te manaaki takitahi, te momo wāhi e whakawhirinaki ai ngā tākuta ki te rongoā i ō rātou ake whānau.

Kei te mau tonu taua whakaaro i te pūtake o Four Winds i ēnei rā. Ahakoa he whānau te whakahaere, kei te whanake tonu te hōhipera me te pupuri tonu i te whakapau kaha ki te manaaki whakaaro nui, aroha hoki i whakatūria ai.

E whakahīhī ana a Tākuta Sarah Klagsbrun, tāna tamāhine, ki te pupuri i te taonga tuku iho a tōna pāpā.

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Tākuta K me Tākuta K
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