NZ Ethnic Social Services
A driving licence is a passport to a better standard of living for new migrants, but the cost often stands in the way.
The NZ Ethnic Social Services Trust runs a driver-training service that boasts a 95-99% pass-rate for the 470 people who attended its courses last year.
Based in Te Atatu South, Auckland, it gives low-income participants ten hours of driving lessons for $200 – enough to ensure almost all pass their test. Demand for the courses has been growing rapidly.
In 2007/08 an ASB Community Trust grant helped support the driver licencing programme.
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