Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 16 AUG 19
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    How do I donate food to the ASRC?

    How do I donate food to the ASRC?

    I want to donate food to the ASRC Foodbank. What‘s the process? We get  lots of inquiries from generous people wanting to donate food to the ASRC who haven’t been able to make it to one of our Open Garage Day food drives.  Firstly, thank you. An incredible 90% of the food distributed to people

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    • 09 AUG 19
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    The Power of Community

    The Power of Community

    How it took a village to raise a food donation for the ASRC. Isn’t it wonderful what a local community can do when passionate, committed individuals get behind a project?  In Melbourne’s northeast, the idea for a Long Winter Food Drive for the ASRC Foodbank was born when Ivanhoe Library approached the Montmorency Asylum Seekers Support Group (MASSG) to

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    • 19 JUL 19
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    Volunteering: Eiddwen’s Passion for Making Change

    Volunteering: Eiddwen’s Passion for Making Change

    The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) Volunteer Recruitment Drive is now open. The ASRC’s is on the hunt for passionate people to join the largest independent human rights organisation in Australia.  We sat down with Eiddwen, a passionate volunteer, who has made the simple action of answering the phones at the ASRC her own act

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    • 16 JUL 19
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    Moved by the Generosity of Man with a Van

    Moved by the Generosity of Man with a Van

    Companies across Australia are leading social change by partnering with charities and non-profit organisations like the ASRC to champion compassion and freedom.  Founded 18 years ago in Melbourne by then university student Tim Bishop, Tim saw a gap in the market for friendly and reliable movers at affordable prices and so began Man with a

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