Date: 16.9.15

Dear: Malcolm Turnbull

Hello, My name is Biak and I’m from Dinjerra primary school. Dinjerra primary school is in Braybrook in Victoria.

Today I write you a letter because I would like you to know about refugees.

I really disagree with Tony Abbott turning the refugee boats away. I think that it is unacceptable that he was turning the boats away because it really hard being a refugee.

Being in a refugee boat is not easy and sometimes the boat is very small so the people have to squish inside the boat. I think it is very dangerous and unsafe! They take months to come to Australia and sometimes they run out of food.

I think that we should be very proud that people from other countries come to Australia because we can learn about their culture and make more new friends. I think that you should make the refugees come through. 

 I also believe that the Government should help the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre (ASRC). The ASRC is located in Footscray and they help the people that don’t have enough clothes to wear and don’t have enough food to eat. They even help people that need a doctor because the don’t have money to pay for the medicine.

So I think that you should really help the ASRC and allow the boats to come to Australia.

Name: Biak

School: Dinjerra primary school

Grade: 6

when ally visited the two four five sixes grades on Wednesday the 9th . She was talking about asylum seekers and how they live and what they need to live  and how we can help. I am going to say three things I learned that it is cheaper for the asylum seekers too come  on plane but they normally don’t because they haven’t got visa and aeroplane tickets. And when they try to come  on boat the government pushes  them away. Second thing I learned was that they only let asylum seekers in there asylum seekers recourse centre.  Last of all I learned that they provide food ,water, clothes, sometimes for free.  and they come in every week to get more provide. I still have two questions though . My first question is how did asylum seekers become in  this much need. And my last question is who’s idea was it to build up a recourse centre. And my opinion is that  the government shouldn’t  be pushing away the asylum seekers  they should have the right to come to Australia and have the same rights as us. And I also learned that when we fundraise to them  it goes to the food clothes and all the other things they provide to the asylum seekers. The way I am  going to try to help them is by fundraising money too them.

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre help poor people that need help. They also help closing the gap. The Asylum  Seeker Resourse Centre (ASRC) is an asylum seeker support oganisation in  Australia. The ASRC, based in West Melbourne, provides aid, justice and empowerment programs to over 1000 asylum seekers living in the community seeking refugee protection.  This is the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre picture.

They give poor people food and water to help them.

By Daniel456B

PS that all I can think of :/

The ASRC visited us on the 9th of september. We met a lady whose name was Ellie and she told us what the ASRC do to help Asylum Seekers.

My opinion is that ASRC should be helping more people. And needs more people to work there so there will be more refugees helped.

My second opinion is that more people should donate so ASRC could help more refugees. I don’t want to see any more poor people around the world. I want to see happy people who has enough support and

money and food.

Here is a picture of ASRC in Footscray

Written by: Anne

Year:5

Year Old:10

A woman named Ellie came from the ASYLUM SEEKERS RESOURCE CENTER and she told us what happens with ASYLUM SEEKERS and people who don’t have barely anything. At the center the member told us it is a place for people to go to. Some of the things she told us even made me have an opinion.

She starts off by talking about the “CENTER” she works at. Including 67 staff members and an amazingly amount of 1200 people who help the Center/Volunteers. The 1200 volunteers don’t get paid, they’re only there to help. The center runs cooking classes, a Tudor and many more things such as a winter sell where the give away warm jackets and coats and even jumpers. They give away things for free but only to Asylum Seekers. Asylum seekers are people who don’t have mostly anything. The center also does a “food bank” where the asylum seekers eat with the staff. The food the food bank has is donated by schools, companies and community’s. And even something very helpful for the asylum seekers is a food sell. It is where Asylum seekers get food for their families for free.  I really think the Asylum seekers deserve as much as they get because the should be treated the exact same like us normal live free humans. They are also normal living free humans but I have to admit that they are very unlikely to be them.

We then started talking about how asylum seekers travel. They travel by boats. Boats that cost them hundreds of dollars. Did you know: Traveling by boats costs more money- $10.000 and traveling by plane costs about $300 or cheaper or more expensive depending on where you are traveling.

So as we learnt we knew more and more about Asylum Seekers and we had plenty to ask. In some ways she even gave us opinions instead of answers. The reason why we are studying Asylum Seekers is because our actual topic is about closing the gap. Some people find it much easier to study them by someone coming from the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre and learn about them instead of reaching about it.

Source: UNKNOWN

By Marina

Grade 4

Class 456B

Please read my poems and leave a comment below.

Spring time

Spring,warm and light

people love spring time so much

flower smell so nice

Wind

wind is very  fresh,nice

everybody loves weather

the wind blows at me .

This week we have been writing about Haiku poems

Here is my poem about Flowers

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When the sun is bright.

The beautiful world has shine.

The world is alive.

In the night time sky.

When the twinkly star shine bright.

I sing to the star.