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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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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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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“My name is Suzana, and I’m a Program Support Volunteer with the ASRC’s Community Food Program. I’ve been volunteering here since April. I’d wanted to volunteer with the ASRC for so long. The catalyst to finally filling in the application form was when my youngest child started high school. I immigrated to Australia from Slovenia
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My name is Anne. For over a decade I have been a nurse in the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Health Program. I start my day with a train ride to amazing Footscray. As I cross the road to ASRC my heart always leaps a bit because I know I will see on our steps a
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