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Inset: Ssai Ovya Sukumar (19, right) is paying international fees to study at university, and her sisters Eesha (17, centre) and Samyuktha (14) are facing the same challenge when they leave Waitaki Girls High School. Right: Unable to afford international fees for their daughter to go to university, Ozzy Omar (right) has returned to Malaysia with her children, while husband Yusoff Deraman (left) remains working in Oamaru. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED
For most secondary school pupils in Waitaki, pursuing tertiary study is a rite of passage. But this passage can be more arduous for some than others, writes
Ruby Heyward.
Many brought children to the country with them.
Home . . . Elias and Dovile Moore are among the steady flow of new people moving to Oamaru.
New Zealand’s closed borders have not stopped a steady flow of migrants from moving to the Waitaki district.
Waitaki Multicultural Council migrant support co-ordinator and Waitaki Newcomers Network co-ordinator Christine Dorsey expected Covid-19 to bring migration to a screeching halt, but that had not been not the case.
“I continue to have an average of 15 new families contact me each month .. and this is exactly the same as the monthly contacts in 2020,” Mrs Dorsey said.
At present, she has 611 families registered in the Waitaki network.
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