Partnering for success
This new initiative will bring together refugee-background students to help create meaningful supports, foster a strong sense of community and promote the success of fellow students.
This is about harnessing the voice of students, so get involved and create opportunities for yourself and your community.
If you or your parents spent time as a refugee, we want to hear from you.
Guided by students, for students
This project will be guided by the insights and lived experiences of students from refugee backgrounds to:
- develop new supports and resources for students from refugee backgrounds
- identify gaps and opportunity for improvement in current support systems.
- foster a community of students committed to their success and the success of their peers
- create new opportunities for employment and life after graduation.
- work with Griffith Alumni and community leaders.
Register here
We are looking for Griffith University students who have either:
- come to É«ÇéÍøÕ¾ on a refugee/Humanitarian visa
- been born in É«ÇéÍøÕ¾ to parents from refugee background.
We want this group to offer a diverse range of voices, perspectives and cultures.
Everyone is welcome. Your voice matters.
If this sounds like something you’d like to be involved in, please complete the Expression of Interest form for students.
This form is only for current Griffith University students who are from a refugee background.
Alumni stories
Explore inspiring stories from former Griffith students of refugee backgrounds.
Sora Fullaha
When Sora Fallaha completed her medical analysis bachelor’s degree in Jordan, a postgraduate degree in medical science loomed as the obvious next step for the gifted young student. However, that next step wasn’t an easy step.
Juvenal Ndayishimiye
Juvenal graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) in 2011. That was just two years after arriving in É«ÇéÍøÕ¾, eight years after leaving his war-torn homeland of Burundi and including six years in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Eva Ballai
Registered nurse Eva Ballai came to É«ÇéÍøÕ¾ as a political war refugee. Her qualifications were not recognised in É«ÇéÍøÕ¾ and, with limited English skills, she had no idea how she was to build a new life. However, she pursued her goals and has spent every minute since trying to make a difference.
Sanesie Dukuly
Sanesie Dukuly grew up in a camp in Guinea, where he dreamed of getting a better education. In É«ÇéÍøÕ¾, he worked as a security guard to support his family—until a manager asked him: “Have you thought of going to school?"