Eric – Massey
“The more time you spend with your own child, the more time they will spend with you at your old age. So it’s more like a give and take situation, because we come from a cultured background, from an Indo-Fijian point of view is what you give is what you will get at the end of the tunnel.
Children; they can teach us a lot of things. Since I deal with children on a daily basis, they kind of show us what they do and what they see at home, and to learn from children is really amazing, since I also have three children at home, eight years and under. They come home with a lot of knowledge and a lot of things, which inspires them at school.
I came to New Zealand when there was Helen Clark Government in 2005. I was employed by a company called Canvas Concepts as a welder fabricator. I’m a welder fabricator by trade, and have worked with Alloy Yachts for nine years, after which we were redundant, and I have started my own cleaning business for the last six years now. I have a family of five, and I have an extended family of 11 at home, living with me currently.
We’ve always been welcomed in Auckland. It just depends on how and which situation that you put yourself into. If you had a home and a shelter to stay in, you will always be safe. In a way, where parenting is so important where parents need to spend time, more quality time with their children, than to be at pubs or at other social places, where there’s children’s who are under 15 or under 10 who are left alone, you know to look after their own child, to make sure they are safe and they are happy.”
