Brendan L
My dad worked in the same factory job for nearly 40 years. He worked 10 hour days, catching the train or running from Manurewa…
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Atarau P (3/3)
3/3 I graduated with my Bachelor of Arts – Majoring in sociology. Just before I graduated, my cousin got me into a 6 week…
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Atarau P (1/3)
1/3 My dad instilled in me the importance of education. He worked in the meat-works and had come here from the Cook Islands wanting…
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Yole L
My parents divorced when I was three years old, leaving my brother and I removed from our father and 8 other siblings for many…
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Larry T
I had applied for 136 jobs from July to December 2007 when I saw job number 137 advertised in the paper. I was at…
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Rudolf L
We didn’t have much growing up but I can’t say anything bad about my childhood. My parents looked after us, taught us the power…
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Caroline W
My parents have always encouraged me, telling me to take charge, and that I could do anything. I found school very hard and I…
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Troy H
My dad was a hard worker but a heavy drinker and from the age of 14 I was doing milk runs every night and…
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Jacqueline P
I always say that I survived a system. A system which was set up to disempower our people. I challenged those barriers. I walked…
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Nafi L (3/3)
Part 3 I decided I was ready to go back to university but I had lots of anxiety. I didn’t know how people would…
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