Happy New Year from Refugee Services!
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To learn about our events, please visit the upcoming events section of our website! If you have an event for the refugee background and refugee support communities, let us know by emailing info@refugeeservices.org.nz!
Help us to help refugees start again.
If you had to leave your home, your family, everything you had ever known, how would you start again?
Our caseworkers provide support because they understand, they have been there, they once left everything they knew behind. They know what it means to be a refugee.
Your donation helps refugees start again. You can make sure they have support from someone who truly understands.
Help us to help refugees start again.
Together, we can make a difference.
- make a regular monthly gift through your bank to our account: ANZ #01-0533-0134087-00. Please call 04 805 0343 or email teresa.bass@refugeeservices.org.nz following your payment so we can be sure to send you a tax receipt!
- donate via Mastercard, Visa or direct debit by clicking here!
- post a cheque to us at PO Box 6828, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand.
Trained community volunteers are key participants in the successful settlement of refugees. In liaison with the professional staff of Refugee Services, they help provide practical support and establish community linkages during the initial months of resettlement. Read or download brochure here and for further information go to our "How You Can Help" section.
"I would recommend this volunteer programme to anyone who is interested in making a difference. It is a life-changing and humbling journey that empowers people to step outside their comfort zones. It is the small acts we make in our daily lives that create a massive shift in the world." Volunteer...Auckland.
Refugee Services is Aotearoa-New Zealand's principal refugee resettlement agency (formerly known as RMS Refugee Resettlement).
We are a not-for-profit, non-government organisation committed to supporting the successful resettlement of former refugees within a welcoming and inclusive society.
Since our beginnings in 1976, our staff, including social workers, cross cultural workers, local coordinators and administrators, as well as our valued volunteer support workers, have assisted more than 40,000 refugees to settle and build new futures here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Former refugees can now be found in every walk of life, making a wonderful contribution to the social, cultural and economic fabric of our increasingly multicultural society.
