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As part of a new partnership with UNICEF Malaysia, HOST International will strengthen community-based protection for refugee children in Kuala Lumpur through our innovative partnership and capacity building approach. In February 2020 there were 46,520 refugee children of concern registered with UNHCR in Malaysia, of whom 52% were Rohingya children. Out of the total number of…

Do you have an idea or existing project that will make life better for urban refugees? Apply now for one of five scholarships to the StartSomeGood Good Hustle entrepreneur program. StartSomeGood and HOST International have joined to offer five(5) fully funded scholarships to former and current refugees who have an innovative idea or project that…

Regional Opportunities Australia, part of the HOST International group, has been shortlisted for Sunsuper’s Dreams For A Better World People’s Choice Award. Regional Opportunities Australia (ROA) supports migrants and refugees move from cities to welcoming regional communities and connects them to employment and business opportunities. This creates opportunities for migrants and refugees while enriching regional…

HOST International welcomes the first Global Refugee Forum which will take place on 16-18 December 2019 in Geneva, and aims to generate new approaches and long-term commitments to improve the lives of refugees and the communities that host them. HOST International was founded on the premise that new solutions are needed for the unprecedented number…

HOST International is the winner of the 2019 TrustLaw Collaboration Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation for research on refugee access to fair and lawful work in Asia, together with partners Asylum Access, Refugee Talent and six pro-bono legal firms from across Asia. TrustLaw, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global pro-bono legal service, presented the award…

  HOST International’s ‘Project Humanity’ asylum seeker support programme was generously supported by Soroptimist International of Hornsby with vouchers for school supplies, library bags and a $1000 student scholarship. Soroptimist International (SI) is a worldwide volunteer service organisation of women who work for peace, and in particular to improve the lives of women and girls,…

This report released today examines the rights of refugees to work safely and lawfully in eight countries in Asia. It features country-specific scorecards examining policies and practices in the eight research countries and provides a clear baseline and starting point for engaging with refugee work rights in Asia. The report is the result of a…

HOST International is proud to announce that we have recently been awarded Interim Full Membership status by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Board. This will continue until the next annual ACFID Council in October 2019, at which we anticipate becoming full members. HOST will now be part of a network which unites Australia’s…

Regional Opportunities Australia (ROA) was officially launched by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor of New South Wales, at Government House, Sydney on Wednesday 14th August. ROA, a subsidiary of HOST International, was established earlier this year in Sydney with a mission to connect people of migrant and refugee backgrounds with employment…

HOST International NZ Board Member, Mitchell Pham, has been honoured for his entrepreneurial leadership and international impact by Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, as one of their yearly honours recipients. “My story is one about leveraging connections back to where I came from and the possibilities that have existed to benefit both countries,” Mitchell says.…

HOST International officially opened its new office in Adelaide on 16th July, which was also the launch of HOST’s new programme, Settlement Engagement and Transition Support (SETS) – Community Capacity Building (CCB). It was a wonderful opportunity to promote the work of the programme and to introduce the HOST Adelaide team. The evening allowed for…

A new guide is being developed to help New Zealand employers recruit jobseekers from refugee backgrounds. The project is a collaboration between not-for-profit HOST International NZ and the Centre for Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE) at Australia’s Deakin University, and partners at Monash University and Australian National University. Job seekers with refugee backgrounds,…

Today HOST International Ltd will finish working in Nauru after two and a half years delivering community-based support services to refugees subject to Australia’s offshore processing program. During this time, HOST has been delivering individual psychosocial support services to refugees living in the Nauru community; employment and vocational training services; and community capacity development services…

HOST International is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Deputy CEO Mitra Khakbaz. Mitra was most recently an executive manager with MDA Ltd for almost 12 years and has worked in the university sector prior to that. She has a proven track record of working across areas of regional settlement, employment, community wellbeing,…

11 mothers and their children were released from government detention and into the community, where they will be supported by HOST’s case management program. The event was made possible due to the sustained collaboration between HOST and numerous human rights agencies and NGOs in Thailand. On Monday, our HOST team in Bangkok attended the signing…