The Inaugural Annual General Meeting of Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group Inc was held on Saturday, 27October 2018 at 2.00 pm in the Uniting Church Hall, 4 Lewin St Springwood*
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Join us at the Palm Sunday Rally Sunday 25 March at Belmore Park (near Central) 2pm – 4pm. This year’s theme is “Refugees are Welcome Here”. BMRSG will be behind the bus stops in Eddy Avenue. The mountains contingent will get the 11.38am train from Katoomba and will be on the second carriage from theRead more
Members of Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group gathered on Saturday 11 November for the 2017 Annual General Meeting.
Chairman Hal Ginges congratulated members and their Committee for a busy and productive year, with highlights such as financial help for asylum seekers in their visa applications, and $130,000 distributed during the year to refugee families and Villawood detainees. Hal Ginges thanked two of the founding members of BMRSG who are standing down from their long term positions on the committee and taking up new roles.Read more
NOTICE
The Annual General Meeting of the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group will be held on Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 2 pm at the Faulconbridge Community Hall 9 – 9A Home St Faulconbridge
All positions will be declared vacant.Read more
The Blue Mountains Community reached out to the grieving family of Hamed Shamshiripour in Iran on Saturday night in Leura. The church was full as the community gathered to express their grief and sadness at the tragic death of asylum seeker Hamed Shamshiripour on Manus Island.
Candles were lit and placed under a framed photo of Hamed. Prayers and meditation framed the evening as people were given the space to share their feelings. Several poets read out their moving poetry, scripture was read and many people wrote messages that will be translated and sent to Hamed’s family in Iran with the poetry and photos of the beautiful candlelit space.
The vigil was organised by Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group and the Leura Uniting Church. Read more
It was a full house at the Blue Mountains Theatre in Springwood on Wednesday 30 November to hear Professor Gillian Triggs and Madeleine Gleeson. The current climate, Professor Triggs said, is that the government and the media in general are no longer interested in the facts of the treatment of asylum seekers as revealed in reports such as the Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into children in immigration detention, The Forgotten Children. Instead, refugees are used as political pawns by the major parties to win votesRead more
