Jacinda Ardern has welcomed our newest group of refugees with a wish that they would experience manaakitanga (hospitality) in New Zealand.
The Prime Minister was at the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre yesterday to celebrate World Refugee Day.
She also greeted families who lost relatives in the Christchurch terror attacks and joined them in planting a tree of remembrance at the centre.
Speaking to refugees who were graduating after six weeks at the centre — which helps prepare them for life in New Zealand with English classes and health screening — Ardern told them Kiwis took their responsibility for manaakitanga very personally.
