“My name is Suzana, and I’m a Program Support Volunteer with the ASRC’s Community Food Program. I’ve been volunteering here since April. I’d wanted to volunteer with the ASRC for so long. The catalyst to finally filling in the application form was when my youngest child started high school. I immigrated to Australia from Slovenia
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My name is Anne. For over a decade I have been a nurse in the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Health Program. I start my day with a train ride to amazing Footscray. As I cross the road to ASRC my heart always leaps a bit because I know I will see on our steps a
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Kamla is one of the ASRC’s member volunteers. She has been volunteering in our Community Meals Program for almost two years, and her beaming smile lights up our kitchen several times a week. Our member volunteers bring the amazing flavours of their home countries’ cuisines to our Community Meals. “People of other nationalities come here
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Many people seeking asylum in Australia don’t know where they will be sleeping tonight. In a year when critical government-funded services continued to be reduced, the ASRC have seen significant increases in the number of people knocking on our door, finding themselves in desperate situations, in need of emergency assistance. With next to nothing, those
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