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The Food Box Project was started by Rachel Lafain for Safe Haven Enterprise Visa (SHEV) holders who had lost jobs due to COVID-19. Catherine Russell of Circle 124 and Libby Hogarth, Circle 92, then collaborated to co-ordinate an expansion of this project. Catherine gathered the names of Bridging Visa holders in need of help, plus some on SHEVs and Temporary …

We would prefer to be seeing and talking to you but, due to COVID restrictions, our fund raising has been curtailed. As a result our funds have diminished. However the needs of asylum seekers and refugees have dramatically increased due to lack of government support. We have been responding to urgent requests for food parcels, rent, warm clothes, blankets, quilts, …

Annual general meetings are commonly thought to be routine and boring, but not this one, following such an extraordinary year. Monica O’Wheel, Chair, and Bruce Whyatt, Treasurer, in their annual reports, focused on the pandemic, its impact on refugees and asylum seekers, and the response of COFA and its circles. “When COVID-19 hit Adelaide, the reaction was fast and generous, …

Recently Elham who is living in Adelaide on a Bridging Visa was interviewed on ABC radio. She spoke movingly on the physical, emotional, educational and social effects Covid-19 induced poverty has had on her family. Elham and her husband have work rights but with the Covid-19 shutdown they no longer have any work and were not eligible for Centrelink support …

Thanks to our donors, the Rapid Response (Circle 110) team has continued to “Make things happen” over these challenging winter months. Our Circle received substantial financial donations for which we are truly grateful. They created capacity to supplement pre-loved blankets, quilts, throws and warm clothes donated, with new items tailored for each person. Singles and families could be warm, properly …