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Story: Waikato region

Somali children

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Somali children

In the 1990s a Somali community grew in Hamilton. Here Somali schoolgirls participate in a lesson alongside Māori and Pākehā children at Peachgrove Intermediate school.

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Waikato Museum - Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

Reference: 2006-24-2

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – European settlement and population, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27107/somali-children (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.