16 years
of Welcomes
How we can help
Preventing violence
Empowering New Australians
Homelessness in Moorooka
Service you want
Refugee youth career pathway
Identify
Our field teams meet with individuals to hear their stories, assess their urgent needs, and prayerfully prioritize their cases.
Support
We then provide holistic support tailored to each individual’s practical and spiritual needs-from safe housing to pastoral care and more.
Empower
Our goal is to build long-term discipleship relationships that empower the church to flourish- even in hostile regions.
Our timeline
1999 -UFVRA
May -Origination Registration Approval
Sep- welcome refugees
Nov- working with unaccompanied minors
Dec - Legally became international organization
2015 UFVRA
2019-UFVRA
2022-UNCC
April - Moorooka Homeless Link
June - Foodbank and community food distribution
July - Youths anti social behavior project
Dec - Prevention against Domestic Violence
May - NDIS Registration
Feb - 4th start Support physical disability
June - supporting 20 participant + 23 staffs
Aug - Full time Support Coordination
United Nationals for Countryless Children
Kenya Program
UFVRA - is volunteer run charity, national partner in Australia, raising awareness and funds to support our international emergency response to humanitarian crises. It achieves this through the generosity of millions Australian's individual donors, trusts, foundations and other organisations who donate to and partner with UFVRA to help support its mission statement:
For over 16 years, United Federation Of Volunteeers For Refugees Action Inc, has resettled refugees, reunited families, Rebuild Lives & rekindled dreams
Our Impacts
1939
UFVRA was founded
5000 +
Volunteers
50,000+
Welcomed
100+
Partners
Our works on charitable ventures to inspire greater giving. We serve as a trusted non-profit organisation, intermediary and implementing partner across the private, non-profit and public sectors. Through these partnerships, we have raised nearly $100,000 for causes such as disaster relief and global response. UFVRA impact’s reach and services are complemented by the work of our subsidiary organisation, UFVRA - Australia www.ufvra.org.au
Our action
we take inspiration from the world around us. That’s why all our values are drawn from our community and the people we represent.
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We believe in delivering meaningful, relevant and consistent help to people in our community, regardless of their religion, race, gender, sexuality or politics.
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We believe our services should always be focused on the end user, who should be consulted and represented at every stage.
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We believe in partnering with other organisations to maximise our resources and further our aims.
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We believe that people have a right to be informed about all the services that are available to them.
Our aims
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To help refugees settle into Australian community
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To support the education of new immigrants
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To help new arrivals develop citizenship skills
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To support mental health in camp overstayed refugees people
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To elevate women in society
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To increase awareness of health and wellbeing issues
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To help young people become self-reliant, confident and happy
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To promote shared values and cohesive communities
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To spread the positive values of Islam
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To challenge prejudice, stereotypes and misconceptions
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To help build a stronger Australian's together
Complaints relating to a breach of the ACFID Code of Conduct can be made to our Complaints Officer by emailing complaints.admin@ufvra.org.au. The ACFID Code of Conduct offers a mechanism to address concerns relating to signatories conduct.
Complaints against a signatory agency may be initiated by any member of the public and lodged with the ACFID Code of Conduct Committee.
