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Social entrepreneur Hedayat Osyan wins Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition

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Hedayat Osyan, founder of a leading social enterprise that employs refugees in the construction industry, has won the 2024 Australia for UNHCR-SBS Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition.   Mr Osyan, a former refugee from Afghanistan, founded CommUnity Construction seven years ago to support refugees struggling to find work or facing exploitation in the construction industry … Continued

Alarming jump in working Victorians seeking homelessness help

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The number of working Victorians seeking help from homelessness services is soaring in Melbourne’s outer suburbs and the state’s regional centres, new analysis reveals.   Council to Homeless Persons’ Employed & At Risk: The new face of homelessness in Victoria report, released on Tuesday, shows a 14% statewide jump in employed people seeking specialist homelessness … Continued

Love, Peace and Tolerance, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community attends Yakkerboo Festival

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Berwick Victoria participated in the Yahkkerbo festival 2024. As part of the wider community outreach program and to strengthening our external links with the organisations around the community more than 50 community members participated in this event. The community members of various age group like children, women, youth and men turned up and … Continued

Love, Peace and Tolerance, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community attends Yakkerboo Festival

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Berwick Victoria participated in the Yahkkerbo festival 2024. As part of the wider community outreach program and to strengthening our external links with the organisations around the community more than 50 community members participated in this event. The community members of various age group like children, women, youth and men turned up and … Continued

The biggest challenge of cancer patients that nobody talks about… How the Leukaemia Foundation is combatting cancer related fatigue

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It’s the number one challenge of people with cancer in Australia[i], yet ‘cancer related fatigue’ is the often-unspoken side effect that drains and debilitates thousands of Australians every day.   With approximately one in two cancer patients reportedly experiencing moderate to severe fatigue during treatment[ii], and for many in the years following, the Leukaemia Foundation … Continued

Australia urged to commit $50 million for war in Sudan

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Media release | Friday, 19 April 2024 More than a dozen humanitarian groups have written to Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging the Australian Government to commit $50 million for lifesaving aid in war-torn Sudan. The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID),Sudanese Australian Advocacy Network (SAAN) and Micah Australia called on the federal government to find … Continued

Australia urged to commit $50 million for war in Sudan

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Media release | Friday, 19 April 2024 More than a dozen humanitarian groups have written to Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging the Australian Government to commit $50 million for lifesaving aid in war-torn Sudan. The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID),Sudanese Australian Advocacy Network (SAAN) and Micah Australia called on the federal government to find … Continued