Turning The Curve Teaching Refugee Background Women To Drive

We have been inundated with beautiful offers of support since the tragedy in Christchurch. Many of our supporters, and members of the public are searching for a way to help former refugees living in Aotearoa NZ. If you would like to support a programme, which makes a lasting positive impact on the lives of vulnerable refugee women who have settled in Aotearoa NZ, please give generously to our Turning the Curve refugee background women's driving programme.

Turning the Curve helps women from refugee backgrounds living in the Wellington region get their full driving licence.

For many of us Kiwis, it is hard to imagine the difference something as simple as a driver’s licence can make. But for many of our refugee background women, it can mean the difference between loneliness, and making a home here. Driving empowers some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable women to learn English, get a job, provide for their families, and feel fully at home in their communities.

As one of our recent graduates said, ‘getting my licence has changed everything, I feel like a real Kiwi woman, because real Kiwi women have their licence’.

The programme runs by women supporting women- we link a refugee background woman with a Kiwi woman volunteer, who accompanies her on her journey to obtaining her full licence. Friendships for life are often made between volunteer and learner.

We urgently need to raise $35,000 by 30th June to keep the programme running. Please give generously- every donation will make a huge difference to the lives of New Zealand's most vulnerable women.