The Rapid Response for Refugees Circle (Circle 110) receives a number of referrals from specialised Refugee Support Agencies including STTARS (Survivors of Torture and Trauma Assistance and Rehabilitation Service), Australian Refugee Association (ARA) and the Red Cross for immediate practical assistance and comfort to people who are very vulnerable and in desperate need. We are contacted as a last resort …
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Urgent Appeal: Afghani Girls Volleyball is in need of funds to play
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 …
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. …