SACRIFICE AND TENACITY PAYS OFF
My grandparents adopted me when I was six weeks old and raised me in Mangere Bridge. We’re from the Far North in Te Kao so I went back and forth up north all the time. When I was ten my grandfather died and my mum came back into my life. I was living in Christchurch and about fifteen
years old when I first thought about becoming a midwife after going to a friend’s sister’s birth. Something in me liked the midwifery world but my careers adviser said I needed to live a little bit first, which was good advice, so I became a hairdresser.