When Sister Brigid Arthur was a teacher at schools in Melbourne’s west, from the mid-1950s to the early 1990s, she was moved by the resilience of local immigrant families.
She saw that with help from the community, they could not just survive but thrive.
Asylum seeker advocate and social justice activist Sister Brigid Arthur.Credit:Joe Armao
It’s something she’s seen with many of the thousands of asylum seekers she’s assisted over the past 30 years.
One young woman who came from a war-torn country in 2017 as a teenager, with little education, is now studying for a master’s degree and works in medical research, which was “an amazing turnaround”, Arthur said.
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