Category: Circle Stories

Below is an excerpt of the Chairperson’s Report for the 2018 Circle of Friends Australia AGM which illustrates the range of work being done by our circles. This year the committee has been busy following through on many projects started in previous years. Partnership with Adelaide University In 2017 we began working with Adelaide University and Nina from their Education …

It is always so pleasing to have applications from new groups wishing to be affiliated with COFA. We have two new Circles: 113 called Suzanne’s Circle, arising from a very generous grant from a Trust 123 called St Chad’s, based at Highgate Anglican Church We also have a group, Fleurieu Refugee Support Group, who are looking at joining as well. …

In September last year, COFA received a request from the Clinical Research Manager, Hepatology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital: “I am writing to you to request help from the “Circle of Friends” for a patient of ours who is an Afghan refugee with end stage cancer. He would like to return home to his family for the last weeks/months of …

This is absolutely great news that Circle 111 has received, that in response their request to Surf Life Saving SA, a grant has been made by the State Government to SLSSA to provide water safety education to 150 refugee and asylum seeker individuals and families.

There are ancient writings in many cultures about giving. One suggests that if you cast your bread on the waters it will return to you many days later. Another suggests that whatever you give in love will come back to you ten times over. Some years ago, people from far western areas of what is now China, were refugees and …