[Papua New Guinea] Migrant women praise [New Zealand] seminar

Penny Wardle – Stuff - Thursday, 14 June 2012 (originally published 11 Jun)

Group picture of migrant Papua women with New Zealand women host

New friends: A Marlborough Newcomers' Network women's health seminar was a place for settlers from overseas to pick up information which will make their life here easier. Image: Penny Wardle/ The Marlborough Express

A seminar aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of migrant women living in Marlborough was held in Blenheim yesterday.

Marlborough Newcomers’ Network field co-ordinator Margaret Western said it was the first of two women’s health seminars. Food, health and budgeting were discussed and a follow-up next Saturday would look at empowering women.

Burie Lilly, who emigrated from Papua New Guinea, said the seminars would be especially useful for women newly settled in New Zealand. After separating from her Kiwi husband, she had experienced bureaucracy problems, especially with the health system . . .

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