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People like you mean that we can help former refugees thrive as kiwis!Pasawhtee Kuku
Age: 22
Country: Burmese/ Myanmar
I arrived to New Zealand in 2006 with my mother and two siblings. I was 11 years old.
Karzan Eskerie
Age: 32
Country: Kurdish/ Kurdistan
My family fled Kurdistan in 1989 to get away from Saddam Hussain’s killings.
Sharif King
Age: 22
Country: Syrian/ Syria
I came to New Zealand in 2016 after the war destroyed my country and I now study Computer Science at Polytech.
Shams Al-Chalabi
Age: 35
Country: Iraqi/ Iraq
For a refugee (a daughter of a political refugee) at 18 like me, New Zealand was not just a refuge but God’s opened arms that embraced my family and I
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