Refugee settlers grateful for safer lives and careers in NZ

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Twenty-three-year-old Rez Ricardo was born a refugee.

Her Kurdish family had fled Iraq for Pakistan in the hope of receiving aid from the United Nations.

Ms Ricardo was born three years after her family left Iraq and spent most of her life, until the age of 6, living in Pakistani refugee camps.

The law student said that turbulent time was characterised by crowded living conditions, mass protests and hunger strikes.

It is these memories that drive her towards her goal of becoming an international human rights lawyer.

“I’m using my own misfortune to pay back the opportunities I was given, and if I can help others along the way that is what I want to do. Read More

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