More than a hundred women enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast event at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) this morning to celebrate and mark International Women’s Day with its 2018 theme of #PressforProgress. The emcee for the event, Mimi, who has utilised the services of the ASRC’s business and women’s empowerment programs, set the tone for
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Fatemah is a 55 year old refugee woman with a serious heart condition, and is the primary carer for her adolescent son, who suffers from mental health issues. The two have been detained in tents in the regional processing centre on Nauru since Fatemah’s son was 12 years old. A medical report written by physician
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When it comes to raising awareness for people seeking asylum, for Bounding Plains to Share duo Cassie and Jackson the old saying ‘walk a mile in their shoes’ didn’t quite cut it. The inspiring pair decided they would take 4000 long kilometers to collect and share the stories of refugees as they ran from Cooktown
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It’s been a challenging journey getting to where they are, but after five busy years the team at ASRC Cleaning have built a sustainable business, and now they’re ready to tackle a new goal; taking on the commercial market. As a social enterprise of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, ASRC Cleaning has a mission to
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In Syria, Mohammed Sharabah started writing poems to try and make sense of the turmoil unfolding around him. They were in Arabic, and were about his destroyed farm and business, and his displaced family; a life picked up and scattered across the world. ‘If you have a sensitive feeling [about] what is around you, you
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