Securing a safe, nurturing home for Refugees in Meanjin
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
After facing 8 long years of unlawful detention, 50 of the 120 refugees and asylum seekers are free and have been welcomed by their friends into the community. But many of them are still facing stressful conditions which compound their existing trauma and hardships.
Securing housing and meeting the cost of living in Meanjin is costly and our new neighbours currently have limited mobility and access to services and, receive no government support in meeting their basic needs. For some, they need to stay in the inner-city regions of the city where they are able to be close to the supportive community who have been fighting for their release from detention.
Staying close to such a supportive community in inner-city Meanjin, is fundamental for their social, physical, psychological and economic safety.
Now when these individuals have a chance at living their life to the fullest– they face another sustained hardship. The federal government continues to make it unattainable for our friends to secure safe, permanent housing, as well as access to gainful employment and essential services. Housing (shelter) is a basic human right and it’s being denied to our new neighbours.
The good news is that we have managed to take the first steps in finalizing a nurturing home for three (3) of our friends and they feel safe, comforted and more at ease there. We wish for them to stay there and be able to live their lives and find gainful employment.
But to do so means we need the wider community’s support in matching the rent of the home they wish to stay in. This is in the interim– as they find their footing, ground themselves, take the time to heal, and eventually settle to a point where they can find work and independently contribute to their cost of living.
Supporting our new neighbours as they navigate experiences where our federal government has given them no support and denied them opportunities to meet their basic needs, is critical. In doing so, you are supporting circumstances that lead to our friends’ full dignity, independence and autonomy.
To regain their social and financial footing by regaining their health through nourishing food and full nights of sleep and finalizing their tenancy in their new home, our friends require support to cover the cost of rent for the next 4 months. This includes the month of March.
Any surplus donations will be given to a trusted organisation(s) — as determined by our friends — to process as an ongoing relief fund for refugees/asylum seekers who are in need of emergency cover for housing, food, healthcare or work administrative costs which may be difficult to cover.
Supporting and uplifting our new neighbours as they navigate their journey to living life as a full human is not only important but fundamental to the practice of participating as active agents of social change in a community.
Please donate and share across your networks as you feel comfortable.
~*We acknowledge that we reside on the stolen land, rightfully known as Meanjin, of the Turrabal and Yuggera peoples, and their sovereignty over these lands and its waters have never been ceded. These lands always was, always will be Aboriginal. *~
Nikia Tester
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
After facing 8 long years of unlawful detention, 50 of the 120 refugees and asylum seekers are free and have been welcomed by their friends into the community. But many of them are still facing stressful conditions which compound their existing trauma and hardships.
Securing housing and meeting the cost of living in Meanjin is costly and our new neighbours currently have limited mobility and access to services and, receive no government support in meeting their basic needs. For some, they need to stay in the inner-city regions of the city where they are able to be close to the supportive community who have been fighting for their release from detention.
Staying close to such a supportive community in inner-city Meanjin, is fundamental for their social, physical, psychological and economic safety.
Now when these individuals have a chance at living their life to the fullest– they face another sustained hardship. The federal government continues to make it unattainable for our friends to secure safe, permanent housing, as well as access to gainful employment and essential services. Housing (shelter) is a basic human right and it’s being denied to our new neighbours.
The good news is that we have managed to take the first steps in finalizing a nurturing home for three (3) of our friends and they feel safe, comforted and more at ease there. We wish for them to stay there and be able to live their lives and find gainful employment.
But to do so means we need the wider community’s support in matching the rent of the home they wish to stay in. This is in the interim– as they find their footing, ground themselves, take the time to heal, and eventually settle to a point where they can find work and independently contribute to their cost of living.
Supporting our new neighbours as they navigate experiences where our federal government has given them no support and denied them opportunities to meet their basic needs, is critical. In doing so, you are supporting circumstances that lead to our friends’ full dignity, independence and autonomy.
To regain their social and financial footing by regaining their health through nourishing food and full nights of sleep and finalizing their tenancy in their new home, our friends require support to cover the cost of rent for the next 4 months. This includes the month of March.
Any surplus donations will be given to a trusted organisation(s) — as determined by our friends — to process as an ongoing relief fund for refugees/asylum seekers who are in need of emergency cover for housing, food, healthcare or work administrative costs which may be difficult to cover.
Supporting and uplifting our new neighbours as they navigate their journey to living life as a full human is not only important but fundamental to the practice of participating as active agents of social change in a community.
Please donate and share across your networks as you feel comfortable.
~*We acknowledge that we reside on the stolen land, rightfully known as Meanjin, of the Turrabal and Yuggera peoples, and their sovereignty over these lands and its waters have never been ceded. These lands always was, always will be Aboriginal. *~
Nikia Tester
| ID | Name | Amount | |
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| 1244 | Listing Agent | [email protected] | |
| 1215 | Listing Agent | [email protected] |
