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Make a difference to people seeking asylum by providing one of the most basic human rights – food and essential items such as toiletries.
The ASRC Foodbank currently provides free groceries and toiletries to around 600 people every fortnight, most of whom have no income and no work rights. You can donate online or in person.
Families seeking asylum are feeling the pressure to keep themselves afloat while trying to rebuild their lives with hope and dignity. This festive season, you can help shine a light of hope for them by donating to provide basic needs like healthcare, food and personal care items, housing assistance and material aid, amongst other essential services.
Cut off from support and with restricted access to healthcare, refugees and people seeking asylum are facing serious mental and physical health issues in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
Will you call on Prime Minister Albanese and Immigration Minister Tony Burke to urgently evacuate everyone to safety and close this shameful chapter for good?
MEDIA RELEASE: The situation for former Manus Island detainees abandoned in Papua New Guinea by the Australian Government continues to deteriorate, with more refugees and their families receiving eviction notices in the past fortnight. The threat of homelessness is exacerbating the serious mental and physical health conditions experienced by refugees who were cut off from food, financial
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MEDIA RELEASE: Seventy-five prominent refugee, legal, human rights and faith-based organisations have united in an open letter to the Federal Government, demanding an urgent pathway to permanency for approximately 8,400 people failed by the now defunct Fast Track system. The letter, addressed to PM Anthony Albanese and Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke, coincides with
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Dear Prime Minister and Minister Burke, We write urging you to take immediate action to provide pathways to permanency for all those failed by the former Coalition government’s ‘Fast Track’ system. As you know, more than 8,400 people failed by Fast Track have been in Australia for over a decade. They have built lives in
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MEDIA RELEASE: ASRC caseworkers can confirm the majority of people held in closed detention on Nauru have recently been moved into the community, with many now struggling to afford three meals a day, clothes, drinking water and basic necessities. People in the community are allocated just $230 per fortnight to survive on, despite drinking water
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This International Day of Care and Support, we highlight our frontline workers, whose contributions are essential to the well-being of our members. Each day, they provide vital services to refugees and people seeking asylum at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC). Each interaction extends care and support, profoundly impacting individuals and families. Beyond essential services,
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As we mark World Homeless Day 2024, this Thursday, October 10, we are reminded that having a safe, secure place to call home is a fundamental human right not available to everyone. For many refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia, experiencing homelessness is a very real challenge. Often left to survive in the community
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My name is Rahim and I’m 32 years old. I was born in Afghanistan and left my homeland in 2012, in search of a safe life. I first arrived at Christmas Island by sea and was then transferred to the detention centre in Darwin, where I spent about seven weeks before coming to Melbourne. When
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When Ghulam was forced to leave his wife and son, there was no knowing when they would be reunited again. A few months, maybe a year? He would never have guessed that 13 years later, he would still be separated from them. “For 13 years I have not seen my family – when I came
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