Most of those in attendance arrived within the last year to work as nurses for Eastern Health. The growing community of Indians from the Kerala province uses community events to make N.L. feel more like home.
Soumya Augustine first moved to Newfoundland in December 2022 to work as a nurse. She says the Malayali community feels like one big family. (William Ping/CBC)While nearly 12,000 kilometres separate Kerala, India from Newfoundland and Labrador, a Christmas party in St. John's this week felt like home for the hundreds of Malayalis in attendance."We came here from different families, different places," said Soumya Augustine, who first moved to St. John's in December 2022. "When we reached Newfound