On World Refugee Day, 20 June, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) proudly made five $5,000 donations to refugee-led organisations working at the grassroots level to support, uplift, and advocate for refugee communities across Australia. This initiative reflects our mission to amplify refugee voices and celebrate leadership from within communities with lived experience. These inspiring
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Last Saturday, the ASRC’s Community Food Program held its 2nd annual Winter Food Drive at the Refugee Resource Hub in Dandenong – and what a day it was! Despite the grey skies, a steady stream of community members turned up with donations of food and toiletries, filling 80 crates by day’s end. From early-bird supporters
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World Refugee Day 2025 is over, and we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your support for the 10th ASRC Telethon. What a day it was! Thanks to you, our community of compassion, we raised an astonishing $1,300,874.80! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for every like, comment, share and
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Bahaa Dabbagh, one of our World Refugee Day Telethon heroes, is a Syrian comedian, cook and community storyteller whose work celebrates the richness of Syrian culture and the power of laughter, food and belonging. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Aleppo, Bahaa fled the Syrian war in 2015, spending six years in Turkey before
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