ARMIA
ARMIA (Active Refugee & Migrant Integration in Australia) is a CALD and refugee community engagement organisation that opened its doors in early 2015, following repeated community requests by Australians from refugee and migrant backgrounds, and has begun a carefully structured program of activities aimed at breaking down the barriers of social isolation, cultural integration and employment within Australian Refugee and CALD communities.
ARMIA works with those individuals who do not integrate, even with the 5-year Australian government assistance program, which often leads to social isolation. These individuals find it difficult to undertake the simplest of tasks that most Australians take for granted. Education, jobs, cultural differences, mental health, aged care, physical health and social interaction all become barriers and can lead to extreme isolation, restricted work opportunities, welfare dependence and exposure to radicalism and fundamentalism.
Year Founded
2015
Our Work
ARMIA aims to shift fit and skilled individuals from welfare dependency, empowering them to (re)join the workforce and/or entrepreneurship in order to proudly take their place in the community and Australian society.
It is located in Sunnybank, a suburb of Brisbane, serving clients, refugees and migrants, currently mainly from the south-eastern suburbs, who have been in Australia for more than 5 years.
Product / Service Offered
Activities aimed at breaking down the barriers of social isolation, cultural integration and employment within Australian Refugee and CALD communities.
Local Government Area
Brisbane
Beneficiaries
Migrants, refugees, or people seeking asylum
Sustainable Development Goals
Decent Work & Economic Growth, Good Health & Wellbeing
Contact Details
Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia
