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Crescent Foundation partners with Deakin to nurture refugee leaders
Leaders from Australia’s pre-eminent institutions will ‘sponsor’ and mentor up to 70 aspiring leaders from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds
Deakin University’s CREATE will facilitate graduate career clinics and empower refugees with practical skills for the workplace
Only 17 per cent of people from a refugee background secure paid employment within their first 18 months in Australia (1)
Crescent Foundation is partnering with Deakin University’s Centre for Refugee Employment, Advocacy, Training and Education (CREATE) to help remove barriers to employment for individuals from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.
The partnership will see members of the Crescent Champions Club – an initiative of the Crescent Foundation – mentor up to 70 individuals from refugee or asylum-seeker backgrounds through Deakin University’s CREATE, which will be funded by the Foundation. The partnership wi