In order to participate in competition this year, the Afghani Girls Volleyball teams need your support. They have been up and running for some time, thanks to their dedicated coach, Rasoul Ahmady sourcing most of the necessary funds. However, this year, membership fees are still needed. We need to raise $2680 to enable 3 teams to play in this 2019 …
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A Short Burst of Joy
Fifteen months ago this young women was sent to outer Adelaide from Nauru to give birth. She was sent without her husband and knew no one in Adelaide. A number of people from Circles of Friends, other support groups and their friends, have worked hard to ease this women’s journey into motherhood and settling into a foreign land all alone. …
Successful Appeal: Help a widow attend her husband’s funeral
With help from Hazara community members and other Donors, this appeal has been funded. Thank you all who contributed. In 2017 at the age of 43 an Hazara man from Afghanistan, living in rural South Australia, was diagnosed with late stage colorectal cancer which proved unresponsive to treatment. Early in 2018 clinicians were able to stabilise his illness enough for …
From Bad to Dire
At this moment, particularly in Adelaide metropolitan areas, many refugees and asylum-seekers in living in South Australia have no income and are unable to meet the basic costs of living – rent, power, water and even food. Several are families with young children transferred to Adelaide from Nauru in the past 6 months and living under Community Detention Orders. …
Safe Harbour InfoBites
With all the secrecy surrounding the plight of refugees and asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru it is difficult to know what is happening. So its great to have a resource like The Safe Harbour InfoBites to refer to. It provides snapshots of information regarding people seeking asylum, refugees and offshore processing of people on Nauru and Manus …