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Education Awards Movie Night Fundraiser

April 22, 2024Jennifer Turini

Monday, 20 May at 6:30 pm Palace Electric, Acton. Cinema 3 All funds raised go to the Canberra Refugee Support (CRS) Scholarship Program. More information from Catherine Bӧhm, Les Bӧhm,…

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CRS 2023 Education Awards

June 26, 2023Jennifer Turini

As part of the ACT's recognition of UNHCHR Refugee Week, Canberra Refugee Support recognised the commitment of 40 ACT region refugees to their education. An Education Awards presentation ceremony was…

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Zerghona’s Efforts Recognised

June 19, 2023Jennifer Turini

Zerghona Jawadi from Afghanistan was among forty refugees from fourteen countries who received a 2023 education award from Canberra Refugee Support (CRS.) Zerghona is from the Hazara minority group, which…

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Request for donations for the 2023 Geoff McPherson Education Awards Program

February 26, 2023Jennifer Turini

Each year Canberra Refugee Support offers Education Awards to refugee students through the Geoff McPherson CRS Refugee Education Awards Program (previously called the Geoff McPherson CRS Scholarship Program).   This program…

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Nuria Carolina CASTILLO CRS Scholarship recipient

2021 Geoff McPherson Scholarship Program

July 28, 2021Jennifer Turini

CRS was delighted to be able to run the Geoff McPherson Scholarship Program again this year, after Covid caused the program to have to be deferred in 2020. This was…

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Louise Aubin UNHCR

Geoff McPherson Scholarships Ceremony – June 2019

June 24, 2019Jennifer Turini

18th June 2019 To assist with marking United Nations World Refugee Week 2019, on Tuesday 18 June 2019 CRS will award 45 scholarships to Canberra region students with a refugee/asylum-seeker…

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CRS Scholarship 2018

Scholarships Ceremony – Tuesday 18 June 2019

June 16, 2019admin

To assist with marking United Nations World Refugee Week 2019, on Tuesday 18 June 2019 CRS will award 45 scholarships to Canberra region students with a refugee/asylum-seeker background. The awardees…

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Scholarships Ceremony June 2018

August 24, 2018Jennifer Turini

45 refugees and asylum-seekers now living in Canberra have been given an education head start thanks to the generosity of the local community. Scholarships awarded during United Nations World Refugee…

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CRS 2017

2017 Ceremony

August 24, 2017Jennifer Turini

To mark UN World Refugee Day each year, Canberra Refugee Support sponsors a refugee scholarship program to recognise and support refugees in Canberra. 2017 was the thirteenth year a public…

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