This is an exciting partnership with Adelaide University in assisting the refugee scholarship holders having difficulties in meeting living expenses once their Centrelink Student Allowances have been cut off. The University group of staff has asked whether COFA can also assist meeting accommodation needs as well. The COFA Committee met last Friday and discussed policy and administration requirements to present …
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Many, many Thanks
In September last year, COFA received a request from the Clinical Research Manager, Hepatology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital: “I am writing to you to request help from the “Circle of Friends” for a patient of ours who is an Afghan refugee with end stage cancer. He would like to return home to his family for the last weeks/months of …
Scholarships aimed at supporting tertiary education leads to Centrelink Student Allowances being stopped
This year, Adelaide University provided 40 scholarships to Refugees and Disadvantaged People which provided all tuition fees and an annual stipend of $5,000. Once scholarship holders received the stipend, Centrelink ceased payment of Student Allowances. This put them under undue pressure to earn to survive and COFA has been supporting a refugee with his living expenses. COFA alerted the University …
Tutoring assistance for refugee students
If you know of any refugee students who could be helped with tutoring in their studies, do contact COFA by phone (0407 532 116) or email and register for this assistance. All the teaching students are undertaking studies in a major field, whether, Science, Maths, Arts, Music, or Physical Education, etc so they can be matched with the requirements of …
Ride the Wave
This is absolutely great news that Circle 111 has received, that in response their request to Surf Life Saving SA, a grant has been made by the State Government to SLSSA to provide water safety education to 150 refugee and asylum seeker individuals and families.