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Refugee Week Event at Pilgrim UCA

A Panel Discussion with a group of young people discussing their unique walk between cultures. Enjoy a simple meal while making connections across cultures. Pilgrim Circle of Friends helps refugees and people seeking asylum with community support and financial assistance. Date: Wednesday 15 June 2022 Time: Please arrive by 5.45 for a 6 pm start (finishing around 8 pm) Venue: …

Bringing together diverse communities during Refugee Week

The Pilgrim Circle initiated a unique celebration fundraiser for Refugee Week in 2021, which fortunately fitted in the middle of two Covid lockdowns. At this event a panel of former refugees spoke about their experience of arriving in Adelaide as refugees, particularly the turning points and memorable moments of settling into Australia, to great mix of Pilgrim Church members and …

Questions for politicians on treatment of asylum seekers

Written by Claire O’Connor, Adelaide Barrister on 20 April 2022 on Facebook (shared here with her permission) Can candidates not say they support off-shore processing of asylum seekers? Can they be honest and say they support the detention of innocent asylum seekers – indefinitely – in conditions every human rights organisation nationally and international has said are cruel and dehumanising? Can …

505 People still without lasting settlement option

From the Refugee Council of Australia Press Release from 24 March 2022 “Australians welcome NZ’s generosity to refugees in offshore processing“: “Of the 3,127 people sent to detention in Nauru and Manus Island in 2013 and 2014 under Australia’s offshore processing policy, around 1,384 people remain in Nauru, PNG and Australia. There are around 270 refugees with applications for the …