News stories tagged with "Refugee"

The journey for refugees leaving their home country to immigrate to Australia can involve a myriad of challenges. Some individuals arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs and many have no family in Australia to lean on as a support system. However, refugees and migrants bring unique, significant skill sets into our […]

Yasameen Hameed loves creating art for others. She shares her drawings and paintings with friends and family, as well as staff and fellow students at Navitas Skilled Futures Liverpool, where she is learning English as part of the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)*. But soon her art will be shared with thousands of people in […]

By any measure of success Albert Abdal has a lot to be proud of. He owns his own painting business, a home in Fairfield and he enjoys a full and rich life with his wife and three beautiful children. It is a long way from his former existence as a fruit farmer in pre-war Syria […]

A class of students from diverse countries and backgrounds have given presentations on “Healing and Human Connections” in a special Refugee Week event at Navitas Skilled Futures Canberra. The students – from countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Japan, Mexico and Bangladesh – presented to classmates and representatives from the Canberra Refugee Service (CRS). […]

Dhafer Shano has more than 20 years’ experience repairing electrical items in his home town of Baghdad. But today in the Western Sydney suburb of Fairfield, it is the welfare of fellow migrants being carefully tended to by the 56-year-old Chaldean refugee. Dhafer arrived in Australia with his wife and son in 2017, having originally fled […]

During Refugee Week, Navitas Skilled Futures’s Basim Shamaon received a prestigious NSW Humanitarian Award for his outstanding work with refugees.

He spoke to Fiona West about his own journey as a young Iraqi refugee and how it helped him find his calling in a vocation devoted to helping others.