This year, Adelaide University provided 40 scholarships to Refugees and Disadvantaged People which provided all tuition fees and an annual stipend of $5,000. Once scholarship holders received the stipend, Centrelink ceased payment of Student Allowances. This put them under undue pressure to earn to survive and COFA has been supporting a refugee with his living expenses. COFA alerted the University …
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Tutoring assistance for refugee students
If you know of any refugee students who could be helped with tutoring in their studies, do contact COFA by phone (0407 532 116) or email and register for this assistance. All the teaching students are undertaking studies in a major field, whether, Science, Maths, Arts, Music, or Physical Education, etc so they can be matched with the requirements of …
Ride the Wave
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.
The Law of Ten Fold Return
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 …
A Feast of Three Cultures
In February, Circle 7 at Blackwood, held a “Feast of Three Cultures” at the hall of Blackwood Uniting Church. The 110 people who attended were treated to scrumptious food from the Persian, Sri Lankan Tamil, and Eastern Mediterranean traditions, being countries and regions from which many of our refugees have come. Our primary objective was to raise the awareness of …