ChangeMakers Refugee Forum

What we do

ChangeMakers Refugee Forum is a rights-based, non-government organisation representing various refugee-background membership communities in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our vison is:
New Zealanders from refugee backgrounds participate fully in New Zealand life. We work towards this vision through three core areas of work: community development, research, and advocacy.

ChangeMakers continues to work in collaboration with refugee-background communities to address issues of family conflict and violence. Phases of this work have included the development of the Strong Families Strong Children resource kit. This kit consists of a DVD and resource book to help communities and social service providers talk about ‘difficult’ topics, such as intergenerational and cross-cultural tensions within families, responding to family violence, raising children in a new country without family support, and other pressures relevant to refugee-background families and how they are dealt with.
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ChangeMakers also runs Ahwa Info Hub weekly on Wednesday from 4 pm – 6 pm, a drop-in centre to provide support to anyone of refugee-background. If you are unsure about what else we could do to support you come and have a coffee with us when Ahwa is on.

Our contact details

ChangeMakers Refugee Forum
Level 1, 203-209 Willis Street
 
Postal address: PO Box 9186, Wellington
Wellington
Phone: 04 801 5812

Who to contact

Batool Arif

Our email address

Batool.Arif@crf.org.nz

Our website

http://www.crf.org.nz