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Who We Are
A group of concerned Australians living in a regional area outside Sydney
Our Aims & Objectives
To encourage positive attitudes to refugees in the community and at all levels of government.
To welcome, befriend and assist refugees facing uncertain futures, in detention and in the community.
What We Offer
Practical, emotional and financial assistance for refugees and to encourage positive attitudes to refugees in the community and at all levels of government
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Local Tibetans thank the Blue Mountains community with a cultural celebration for Dalai Lama’s 83rd Birthday
Blue Mountains locals were welcomed to a traditional Tibetan cultural celebration to commemorate the 14th Dalai Lama’s 83rd birthday last Friday at the old library in Katoomba.
The event gave exiled Tibetans living in the Blue Mountains an opportunity to thank the Blue Mountains community and celebrate the Dalai Lama’s birthday with the taste, colour, music and dance of Tibet.There are approximately 50 Tibetan adults and children living in the Blue Mountains and many arrived in Australia on humanitarian visas. All of them are refugees or children of refugees who fled Tibet after the Chinese occupation in 1950 and made the long trek over the Himalayas to reach safety in Nepal.
The first Tibetan refugee settled in Katoomba nine years ago and others arrived after the Dalai Lama visited the Blue Mountains in 2015. In the last six months some families have arrived directly from India on humanitarian visas. Ms Dhongdue praised the local community saying that Tibetan refugees had been ‘embraced with warmth and love’.
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A Talking Circle with members of the Tibetan Community and local services -a BMRSG partnership in Refugee Week
Service providers in the Mountains and managers from further afield got together last Thursday 21st of June with members of the Tibetan Community in the Mountains. At the last count 60 Tibetans on humanitarian visas had moved into the mountains.
The idea was to give the Tibetan community an idea of the services available and for services to get an idea of what the community needed. There was a fantastic atmosphere. More than 20 Tibetan people attended and were really engaged with service providers through their leaders and the very well organised interpreter.
Thirteen different agencies came including TAFE, Multicultural Health for Western Sydney and lots of locals services. It gave the Tibetan Community a great connection to those who make decisions as well as to those who deliver services. Read more
Changing lives, changing perceptions: Young refugees from the Treehouse Theatre perform for Katoomba High
Refugee students from Miller Technology High in Cabramatta, Sydney, shared their life stories in a Tree of Life performance for Katoomba High School on Wednesday 19 June. The students, from war-torn Iraq and Syria, were part of Parramatta’s Treehouse Theatre that provides a platform for young refugees to act out their stories of plight.
The young refugees, aged between 12 and 17, performed in front of 700 Katoomba High School students and their teachers. None of them had been in Australia longer than 2 years, with one arriving only 8 months ago. Read more
Dutton’s Dog Bill is back in the Senate
Institutionalised brutality has to be challenged.
Again! Last year we thought that we had stopped Minister Dutton’s plans to allow the use of dogs in detention centres and for officers to have increased powers for strip searches and seizures without warrants. We thought that the Minister of Home Affairs wouldn’t have the arbitrary right to decide what was to be a “prohibited object” in detention centres and would remain answerable to Parliament and the courts for his actions. We thought that people in immigration detention could keep their phones.But the Migration Amendment (Prohibiting items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017 is back. It is in the Senate to be voted on this session.
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A second car gets a new life and finds a new home
Once again the Year 11 Manual Arts Students at Blaxland High School, under the guidance of automotive teacher, Shaun Halden have restored a car which would have otherwise be destined for the scrap heap and donated it to a refugee.
The old Volvo – known as Goldie – which was donated by Rose Wilesmith of Warrimoo, was handed over to BMRSG on 8 June and will now be owned by refugee Hadi, who will use it to get to his work and also to the metal fabrication course he attends at Ultimo TAFE three nights a week.Read more
Have you heard about the harsh cuts to asylum seeker support?
Listen to this clear explanation of what is happening to 12500 people on 18 June when they lose there allowances of $35 a day and what has happened to them since they arrived 2012/13. Why haven’t they worked? Why haven’t they learnt English? All the answers are here. Have you heard about the harsh cutsRead more
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