Toowoomba Yazidi community: CatholicCare no closer to receiving more funding from federal government to support refugees One of Toowoomba’s most vulnerable minority groups is at risk of being ...

CatholicCare’s Toowoomba Refugee Migrant Service gets $1.45m boost from federal government to support Yazidi community A community of nearly 5000 former refugees living in Toowoomba with complex ...

New data reveals Kurdish is the second most common language spoken in Toowoomba and support groups are calling for extra funding to help Yazidis settle into the city.

Mawali Ali came to Toowoomba as a Yazidi refugee a few years ago from Syria. "It makes me so happy (being able to play with the Roar)," he said. "It was a once in a lifetime (opportunity)." ...

JANKEY Joweesh and his family have set their roots in Toowoomba, and he owes part of that to the people working at the Toowoomba Multicultural Centre. The former Syrian Yazidi refugee, who has ...

In the past year many Yazidi refugees have been resettled in Toowoomba, QLD. Salim Haseen arrived with his family in Toowoomba four months ago. Mr Haseen is happy to be in Australia where he feels ...

'They don't trust the banks' Behind Brisbane, Toowoomba is Queensland's largest refugee settlement location. More than one in 10 living in the city were born overseas. The most recent cohort of ...

The Newroz camp currently hosts about 15,000 Yazidis from Iraq; hundreds more are staying in nearby villages and towns around Al Qahtaniyyeh and Ras Al Ain. After a few days at the camp, many refugees ...

It is the 43rd day of the refugees' stay at the Belarusian-Polish border. They stay in the transportation and logistics hub Bruzgi. Yazidis from Iraq are among them, too. They believe that ...