Australia's government has made its Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (Crisp) program permanent, allowing community groups to sponsor refugees resettling in the country. The program provides support for refugees, including housing, education, and healthcare, and has been praised for its success in helping refugees integrate into Australian society.
Juan arrived in Australia to a stocked pantry and kind faces. The government pilot that allowed it is here to stay, tooThe Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot will soon be a permanent part of Australia’s humanitarian migration programFor Juan Santamaria, arriving on the other side of the world to a pantry filled with food from his native Venezuela was a warm welcome on a cold day.
“Meeting is something we will never forget: they welcomed us with banners and a hug that conveyed a lot of trust and confidence that we would be fine.” “Community refugee sponsorship has rightly enjoyed support right across the parliament and in communities because it works. Crisp will now be a permanent and valued feature within Australia’s overall humanitarian program,” Hill told the Guardian.
Santamaria says the Crisp sponsorship had smoothed his family’s resettlement in a country where they otherwise knew nobody, and didn’t speak the language at the time. “But for them to be able to step into our homes and be treated effectively as members of our families, to be shown respect and love, has been incredibly fulfilling and meaningful for all of our group as well.”“It’s one thing to know about the refugee crisis in an abstract form, but it’s quite another to have personal engagement with refugees who have gone through the most horrific trauma. To sit with them and bear witness to what they’ve gone through.
Button says while Crisp is currently “modest in scale … there are so many ways in which everyday citizens, clubs, faith groups, schools and businesses could play a role if invited to be involved.
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