About 90 Kiwi-Indian women went on a trip to Rotorua on Saturday, January 14 to experience a day full of fun, entertainment, and adventure.
Woman Care Trust based in Auckland organised two buses to take these women to Rotorua. The buses started from Auckland with women reciting religious prayers in the bus. During the entire journey, the women sang folk songs. They visited Kuirau Park in the heart of Rotorua, which is New Zealand’s only geothermal public park and features beautiful natural gardens, a crater lake, mud pools, hot springs and thermal foot baths.
The women made the best of the opportunity and enjoyed the natural and soothing environment. They also danced on Punjabi folk songs in the park.
The trip also included a visit to the Redwood Forest the Whakarewarewa Forest, Blue Lake, and the Government Gardens.
“The Redwood Treewalk was an adventurous experience for the ladies, and being in a group with other friends, they got [the] courage to walk on the track. They all had a wonderful experience while walking on the track and exploring the forest area,” Baljit Dheil of Woman Care Trust said.
“A tiring and long day brought a lot of cheer among the ladies as they went back with beautiful memories of the fruitful and fun time spent exploring New Zealand and developing a social network. Such trips help them get rid of depression and loneliness that they experience after moving from India,” she added.
Woman Care Trust is a non-profit organisation based in Auckland and was established in 2014. It aims to provide free support to Indian women and other new immigrants to settle in New Zealand. It also organises free English, swimming, meditation, and yoga classes along with other cultural events and also provides free health advice.
It organises three such trips every year. The first trip was organised early in January this year where the women were taken for a tour of Auckland. The third trip will be organised in February, where the ladies will get to visit Tauranga.
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