Family Destroyed by Fire at Christmas

Refugees as Survivors New Zealand are involved because we respect and admire Kailesh for his work with asylum seekers and refugees in the community. If anyone was in trouble, day or night, he would help them. Now he needs our help. He is badly injured with 40% burns to his body, his daughter and father in law badly shocked; his wife, son and mother in law dead. His family home destroyed.

The least we can do is to help him in his hour of need. He often worked closely with our organisation and we are honoured to help him in any way we can. As a sign of our great love for him and his family we have set up this Givealittle page to help in the only way we can.

There will be huge expenses for him, with funeral, medical and practical costs, so we are reaching out to the community to contribute financially to help this man who has helped so many in the past.

We assist and support refugees to recover from the trauma of physical maltreatment and torture; we help young people integrate though sport; promote road safety and run community groups where refugees receive information on healthy lifestyles. We offer long-term support for refugees to study, obtain qualifications and successfully contribute to the NZ work force.