After an epic few months of training and fundraising for Run 4 Refugees, more than 650 runners converged on the ‘G’ for the Melbourne Marathon on Sunday, 16 October 2016. Thanks to all runners and the community of compassion that surrounded them, the event raised a huge $236,356! These funds are vital to providing welcome and
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ASRC’s longest running social enterprise, ASRC Catering recently took out third prize in Moral Fairground’s Ethical Enterprise Awards, held on 20 October 2016. The catering business which employs around 30 people seeking asylum, won $15,000 worth of mentoring an business consultation from One10. ASRC Catering was recognised for its commitment to providing social and economic
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A new report from Amnesty International has condemned Australia for turning Nauru into an open-air prison, where refugees and people seeking asylum face a cruel and elaborate system of abuse. The report, Island of Despair: Australia’s ‘processing of refugees’, is a disturbing and comprehensive expose of our government’s deliberate and systematic regime of neglect and cruelty. Based
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Fifteen years ago, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) started as a 20 square metre shop front with a humble idea; that for people seeking asylum wouldn’t go hungry. Since then we have helped over 13,000 refugees and people seeking asylum. Our CEO, Kon shares a personal message with you today. But our birthday is bittersweet.
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For Shaibu the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) was the place to find his community. Forced to leave Ghana after a violent attack based on his political views, he arrived in Australia in 2007. Living out of a car, Shaibu faced every day feeling unsafe. It took him over three years to discover the ASRC
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