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By running a food drive, you can help the ASRC Foodbank in Footscray and Dandenong provide free groceries and toiletries to over 1,300 people every fortnight, most of whom have no income or work rights.
You can host a food drive with your school, community group or business; this is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to give someone a hand up.
Host a Feast For Freedom this March and raise funds to provide food, shelter and health services for over 7,000 people seeking asylum who need support settling into Australia every year.
Register as a Feast for Freedom Host today and you’ll receive a host kit full of recipes gifted by refugees – so you can plan your Feast, and create a meal that makes a difference.
The ASRC’s Community, Advocacy & Power Program (CAPP) is a six-week intensive training program to equip people with lived experience of seeking asylum with the leadership skills necessary to become powerful advocates for the refugee community.
Applications are now open for CAPP 2023 Melbourne.
When we launched the Save the ASRC public appeal on 9 February 2023, we were afraid that the seven weeks we had to turn things around was not going to be long enough to keep our doors open. Not because people had stopped caring, or thought our work was done – just that it’s such
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Media Release March 8, 2023 The Albanese Government along with the Liberal Party opposition and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party voted together against the Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023, which would offer urgent evacuation to the 160 refugees still held offshore in PNG and Nauru, in the Senate today. The Bill was introduced
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Media Release March 7, 2023 The ALP-dominated Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs released a report, today, recommending a vote against the Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023, which would offer urgent evacuation to the 160 refugees still held offshore in PNG and Nauru. The Committee’s report was contradictory and confused, recommending
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Media Release March 4, 2023 The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre urges Albanese Government to support legislation, which will compel the transfer of around 160 refugees held offshore in PNG and Nauru to Australia, scheduled to be voted on in the Senate on March 8. The Migration Amendment (Evacuation to Safety) Bill 2023 is currently before
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Good food brings people together. It has the power to unite people from diverse backgrounds as one family, one community, and one people. That’s the power of Feast for Freedom. Every year, more than 1,000 people across Australia choose to celebrate what unites us, by hosting a Feast in their home, workplace, school, or community
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With the change of government in May 2022 came a glimpse of hope for people seeking asylum. Two of Labor’s election promises were to provide permanent protection for refugees who are currently subjected to a cruel and protracted temporary visa system, and to create a fairer process for people seeking asylum. But as yet, there
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Here at the ASRC, we’ve faced some pretty tough challenges: from finding ways to keep our doors open through the pandemic, to campaigning hard against this government’s disappointing budget, which puts even more public money into offshore and onshore detention. But now I want to share some news about a challenge that I’m actually looking
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Every year, hundreds of people across Australia join together under the ASRC banner to clock up our Kilometres of Compassion (previously known as Run 4 Refugees), in support of refugees and people seeking asylum. Now – in addition to major running events like Bridge to Brisbane or the Melbourne Marathon Festival – the ASRC is
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