Heartfelt thanks to everyone who has responded so quickly and generously to the recent, urgent appeal by the Rapid Response Circle (110) to help meet basic living expenses of individuals and families at risk of homelessness, who were hungry and fearful of services being cut off after long extensions of final payment dates and without a clear path to survival. …
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Further urgent funding needed for basic living costs
Circle of Friends is receiving increasing numbers of requests for basic living support for asylum seekers with no access to any form of social security and no employment (or insufficient employment to make ends meet). Circle 121 SOS for Asylum Seekers is now managing these requests and raising the necessary funds to ensure people do not end up homeless and …
Funds urgently needed for basic living costs
The Rapid Response Circle (Circle 110) needs your donations today to ensure that we can continue to meet the needs of highly vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees who have little or no access to social security from the Government. All Circles are feeling the impact of Covid restrictions which has both reduced fundraising opportunities and led to increasing calls for …
Supporting education for Asylum Seekers
For the past 4 years the Blackwood-Hills Circle (Circle 7) has been providing a living allowance to 11 asylum seekers who had gained scholarships to the University of Adelaide. Adelaide University generously offered scholarships to students of refugee background which enabled them to study without paying full international student fees. However, there were concerns that some of these students were …
Rapid Response Circle of Friends (Circle 110) update
In recent months, the Rapid Response Circle has continued to provide food, bedding and clothes and, where there is no other option, supporting refugees and asylum – seekers financially. As usual the expenditure, as outlined below, is varied and indicative of the various emergencies that can derail the life of people with little or no income including rental or utility …