For over forty years a successful community sponsorship of refugees program has operated in Canada. With the ever increasing numbers of displaced persons in the world through wars and other catastrophes, now being added to by growing numbers of climate refugees, its welcome that private citizens and organisations are now getting involved in refugee resettlement in countries like Australia.

Following the success of the people powered, "Home to Bilo" campaign for the Nadesalingam refugee family many Australians are now aware and involved in grass roots private community sponsorship of refugee families.

There is more detail at the following link;

http://refugeesponsorship.org.au/

Hi Paul,

When my parents and other Displaced People were invited
to come to this country post World War II - they had to work
for two years in jobs wherever the government sent them
before they were allowed to settle where they wanted.

Today, the circumstances are different.

Community groups have always helped. Traditionally ethic
groups took care of their own because they were looked
upon as "outsiders" by the locals so they tended to
stick to their own communities. It is good to know
that things are slowly changing - and that locals
are becoming more welcoming towards refugees.

It's a step in the right direction as you point out.

Thanks for your link Paul.

Here's another one:

http://refugeecouncil.org.au/australia-finally-gets-the-refugee-sponsorship-model-the-community-wants/

"Climate refugees". What a con! Which countries have become unlivable because of climate change?

"Australians now have the opportunity to sponsor and welcome refugee families into their local communities through ‘community sponsorship’ – like they do in Canada!"

Like they do in Canada. That’s the place where the WEF trained stooge of a PM persecutes actual Canadian farmers. Oh let's be like them!

Started by "a group of leading Australian charities and nonprofits", the Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia is an 'independent charity', probably already chin deep in taxpayer handouts, and of the usual Marxist persuasion as all the rest of these sanctimonious outfits. You can bet that the people at the top are not volunteers - like most 'charities', which are actually political organisations, feeding off taxpayers.

These types make me want to throw up. They wouldn’t lift a finger to help their fellow Australians, whom they despise.

The 'refugee' industry and mass immigration, is all part of the WEF global Great Reset.

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s new refugee sponsorship pilot, saying it is the model Australian communities have been seeking for more than a decade.

Which communities exactly?

The ones predominately filled with traditional Aussies, or the Australian communities full of recent immigrants that want to bring over their mum's, dad's, great uncles and second cousins and the rest of their extended families?

Are Australians now becoming a minority group in Australia?

Hi Foxy,

Thanks for that positive input, the idea of a local community of "strangers" getting together and sponsoring/supporting a refugee family has great appeal. Post WWII it was difficult for migrants from war ravaged Europe to settle in Australia, particularly those early trail blazers who didn't have that ethnic or family connection. This community sponsorship is also a way of diversifying new arrivals into the regions, and preventing ethnic enclaves developing in the larger cities. The practical support begins from the day of arrival (actually before that) with the physical meeting of the new family at the airport by their sponsors and organisational support staff. New arrivals need a lot of help, with housing, employment, schooling, the day to day things of life we all take for granted.

How does this new program (begun in Australia mid 2022) work;

"A group of five or more adult volunteers (known as a ‘Community Supporter Group’ or ‘CSG’) will provide 12 months of practical hands-on support to a refugee household from their date of arrival in Australia. CSGs can be based in a community anywhere in Australia, provided they can demonstrate capacity to provide appropriate support to a refugee household within that community."

"Community Refugee Sponsorship Australia (CRSA) will approve, train and support CSGs and connect them with a refugee household referred into CRISP."

"Refugee participants in this program will be those referred to Australia for resettlement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees having been identified as in urgent need of resettlement. They could come from a wide variety of countries and may have been waiting for the opportunity to resettle in a safe new country for a long time."

P/S Don't you just love it when our resident little gremlin chimes into the discussion oozing with all his "positivity". I picture him as an Albert Steptoe type character.

ttbn, climate refugees, look no further than Pakistan today.