New Zealand Red Cross Refugee Services Refugee Services refugee health and wellbeing project summary This project was a pilot, household-based, health education programme, to address some of the health challenges and disadvantages experienced by former refugees resettling in New Zealand. One hundred and sixty-seven families from the Colombian, Myanmar and Bhutanese former refugee communities in Greater Wellington and Manawatü participated. The report offers numerous recommendations for agencies working with people from refugee-background communities, and includes key changes and the factors contributing to these changes. Available at: https://www.redcross.org.nz/yk-files/1294c47b 69c75e44393c8af4edbc6473/Red%20Cross%20Health%20 and%20Wellbeing%20Project%20Report%20-%20 November%202013.pdf Contact: Miranda Pittaway miranda.pittaway@redcross.org.nz and Margaret Sheridan margaret.sheridan@midcentraldhb.org.nz Tüi Tüi Tuituiä | Race Relations in 2013 63

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