A decade on the Karen refugees embrace life in Australia

: Karen residents in Mount Gambier

: Karen residents in Mount Gambier Source: SBS

It's been ten years since the first group of Karen and Karenni refugees from Myanmar settled in Mount Gambier as part of a pilot program for regional resettlement.


Thoo Lay Paw Eh and her family were among the first to be settled in Mount Gambier under a regional resettlement pilot program.

 

They had hoped to move to Brisbane where they knew of other migrant families.

 

But they weren't given the choice.

 


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