Mai and Hung, Vietnamese boat people, Part 2
- Description
Audio depicts interview with Mai and Hung by Stuart Birks. Part 2 of 2, featuring: Contacted by the UN, brought food. 1 pot for cooking, used by many families. Built a shelter. Taken to UN refugee camp. Not qualified, no sponsor, so Canada and US out. Accepted for NZ after 10-11 months. No contact with parents for a year (in Vietnamese countryside for 2 years). Family reunited in Palmerston North. Life in the Mangere resettlement centre. Help from Salvation Army. 2 oldest children got jobs, 3 younger ones in school (QEC). Oldest brother, Tony, got job in computer science. Mai working at Massey University library. Made welcome here. Father bought a dairy in Albert Street. Parents’ escape from Vietnam. 40 years later, how the family has done: 6 of 7 children got degrees from Massey University. jobs, married and brought up families.
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- Audio
- Date
- February 27, 2021