Stories

We are very honoured to be listed as a key resource on the Australian Government's Department of Social Services website to assist in welcoming refugees into our country. Thank you to Anita Hendrie and the Brisbane team for your part in creating such a beautiful story...

At the end of October, the Migrant Resource Centre hosted Hobart’s first community Welcome Dinner. It was a lovely spring evening in this sunny building, and 60 people attended, including many people new to the Welcome Dinner Project. A great chance to get to know...

Coming together for a photo at the end of the Peace festival Welcome Dinner, Inveresk. Held at St Finns Barre primary in August as part of the Tamar Valley Peace festival, this event really showed how a cross cultural community has formed through the Welcome Dinner...

On the 8th September at the historic Parramatta Town Hall, 140 people from all corners of the globe came together to share a meal. We partnered with the City of Parramatta, Jesuit Refugee Service, the Red Cross, Amnesty International and the Community Migrant Resource...

All of our excited anticipation was rewarded on Friday night 12th August when Penny gave birth to a beautiful boy. You can read more on Penny’s personal blog here. Congratulations! We are all looking forward to having Wilber join our Welcome Dinners 🙂

We are excited to share the news that we have been working together with the coordinators at https://www.romaltruista.it/ to bring the best of the Welcome Dinner model to Rome in the hope of furthering connections between recently arrived refugees and asylum seekers...

Our Founder Penny spent a wonderful day with our partners at the University of Technology Sydney, sharing about the WDP and workshopping ideas with students to help further our reach and involvement of university students. It was great to work with our past...

This year four home dinners have been held in south west Sydney, an area which is receiving a wave of refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East. Each dinner has been unique, but people have always experienced a genuine welcome and started building relationship...

 Guest blog by Freyja Dixon: On the 11th October I was honoured to represent the Welcome Dinner Project at the International Student Awards at the Opera House. We had been nominated by our partners at the University of Newcastle Sydney Campus for the award in the...