Australia

Our work in Australia

JRS Australia accompanies, serves, and advocates for refugees, people seeking asylum, and other forcibly displaced people. In many cases, these people face destitution, uncertainty, and homelessness as government policy grows increasingly unwelcoming and punitive.

In response, JRS Australia offers dignity and hope through emergency assistance, temporary shelter, a foodbank, professional casework, community activities, employment support, school engagement, legal advice, targeted advocacy, and a project to empower women seeking asylum.

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Junghee, a volunteer, teaches English at the JRS Arrupe Community Centre in Parramatta. 
Junghee, a volunteer, teaches English at the JRS Arrupe Community Centre in Parramatta. (Denis Bosnic/Jesuit Refugee Service)
Marthe, a JRS food bank volunteer, offers food to refugees at the JRS food bank in the Arrupe Community Centre in Parramatta.JRS en Australia
Marthe, a JRS food bank volunteer, offers food to refugees at the JRS food bank in the Arrupe Community Centre in Parramatta. (Jesuit Refugee Service)

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