“The centre is part of my life. Every time I leave I think about how long until I can come back. Always at home we talk about the welcome centre”.
The Welcome Centre provides essential services to asylum seekers, refugees and new arrivals in Adelaide, filling the gaps in service provision wherever possible.
We are completely run and managed by volunteers.
We facilitate free English classes, material aid, emergency relief, volunteer experience, social support, Christmas gifts and hampers, friendship and referrals to other agencies.
We provide a safe and comfortable space where people from all backgrounds – whether asylum seeker, Indigenous Australian, migrant, refugee or Australian born – can come together and share in food, conversation and friendship.
We were awarded a 160,000 grant under the Building Multicultural Communities Program; a grant which has now been recinded by the federal government, leaving us without the funds to redevelop the centre into the space we require to continue to provide our
current services and programs, as well as expand into new ventures, providing free counselling, legal and housing support.
We need YOUR help to continue our renovations and enable us to continue to provide such vital service to our communities' most vulnerable.
