This National Volunteer Week, we’re celebrating the volunteers who help make the ASRC community possible. Across the organisation, volunteers contribute their time, skills and care to support people seeking asylum to access safety, dignity and belonging. Many of these roles happen quietly behind the scenes, but their impact can be life-changing. As part of this
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This National Volunteer Week, we’re celebrating the incredible people who help make the ASRC community possible. Across every part of the organisation, volunteers contribute their time, skills and care to support people seeking asylum. From food relief and healthcare to legal support and community programs, volunteers play a vital role in helping keep our doors
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At the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, we’re seeing a social crisis unfolding in real time. Over the past month, we surveyed families seeking asylum. The results were devastating: 69% are turning off heating because they can’t afford it 31% have significantly reduced visits to a doctor when sick Families are telling us they are stressed,
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For 25 years, volunteers have been the heartbeat of the ASRC. Every day, across every part of our organisation, our volunteers show up with compassion, generosity and a shared belief that refugees and people seeking asylum deserve safety. At the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), volunteering is not one thing. It is the Foodbank volunteers
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This 17 May, the Asylum Seeker Centre (ASRC) observes the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). Thirty-six years after the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its Classification of Diseases, this worldwide celebration of sexual and gender diversities arrives in perilous times. While some countries advance self-identification and anti-discrimination laws, others enforce
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