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Breaking Silence Season 1 Ep 5 Shakti
9m 42s
Farida Sultana immigrated to New Zealand from Bangladesh in the early 1990's. Several years earlier she had experienced domestic abuse while living in UK. She left her relationship and received help from Shakti, as women's aid service and refugee women. After arriving in New Zealand, and realising that immigrant women from Asia, the Middle East and Africa were not getting the support they needed, she founded Shakti New Zealand in 1995. We follow Farida and her colleagues to the site where one of the women was killed. She was one of Shakti's clients and they are still grieving. Simonne interviews Farida to understand the issues that women from these communities face and discovers Farida and other survivors...