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Entrepreneur’s gift boxes hold special meaning

Karla Karaitiana

A young Marton entrepreneur is donating profits from her young enterprise business to mental health, after losing her mother to suicide at a young age.

Mak Durey lost her mother when she was only 11 years old, and now the Year 13 student wants to do everything she can to prevent others from suffering the same grief.

Durey has a young entrepreneurship scheme start-up business, and her motive is to honour her mother by donating the revenues to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.

‘‘I just wanted to be able to help in some way, because let’s face it, New Zealand has a terrible record when it comes to suicide.

‘‘I wanted to support the work that the mental health foundation do to try and prevent more people from taking their lives, and this was one way I thought I could help.’’

On Thursday night, she was one of about 20 business studies start-ups who attended the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) market night at Te Manawa.

YES manager Emilee Watson said the programme gives students the chance to channel their inner entrepreneur and gain firsthand experience in the startup industry, by allowing them to create and run a real business. Each YES company develops its own product or service and then markets it.

Durey designed a line of pamper gift boxes under her company ‘Mii,’ named after her Mother Michelle’s nickname.

‘‘I wanted to be able to honour her, and naming my business after her was one way of doing that.’’

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