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She’s worked as a zookeeper and on an animal therapy farm, looked after asylum seeker children in community detention and taught English and swimming, but Emma Yengi says providing much-needed help to asylum seekers and refugees living in Adelaide has been her greatest career choice so far.
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As Catholics prepare to celebrate Migrant and Refugee Sunday on September 26, Francisco and Rosalinda Lacar speak about their decision to leave the Philippines and migrate to Australia with their five children in 1987.
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There was a lot of love at the Clearview/Kilburn parish on Valentine’s Day this year, but for a different reason.
A steady stream of refugees and asylum seekers is coming through the doors of the relocated Vinnies Migrant and Refugee Service at Kilburn since it opened last month.
Francesca Cimmino has been going to Mass at St Joseph’s, Kingswood, every Sunday for 63 years, so it’s not surprising she found it difficult when churches closed a few weeks before Easter, the most sacred time of the year for Christians.
Family is everything to Enrica Bertossa who was separated from her own parents and siblings as an eight-year-old peasant girl in Istria. JENNY BRINKWORTH reports.
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