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For people seeking asylum, day-to-day life often means being on the receiving end of services, food parcels, housing support, casework. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Member Recipes Project deliberately flips that arrangement, at least for an afternoon. Members are invited to teach, not just attend. Each quarter, a handful of ASRC members share two or three recipes from home, demonstrate how to cook them, and run a workshop for Community Kitchen volunteers, most recently

At the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Community Kitchen in Footscray, the person teaching the cooking class is often the person who, a week earlier, was just receiving a meal. The Member Recipes Project flips that dynamic deliberately. Each quarter, three or four ASRC members are invited to share two or three recipes from their home countries, most recently Egyptian and Pakistani dishes, demonstrate how to cook them, and run a hands-on workshop for Community Kitchen voluntee

Well done to our ACCIONA Community finalist - Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. 170 alumni. Seven cities. Zero cost to participants. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Refugee Leadership Program is an eight-day intensive that trains people with lived experience of seeking asylum in advocacy, media, public speaking and digital communication, then sends them out to lead. Delivered in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart and Launceston, deliberately outside the usu