The New Hope Foundation (NHF) is a non-profit public benevolent organisation, which aims to assist newly arrived refugee and humanitarian entrants who are living in poverty throughout Victoria via a unique range of state wide services including:

• a Material Aid Service based in Sunshine
• New Hope Employment and Training Services based on Oakleigh
• an accommodation and support service based in Avondale Heights

Most of our clients have come to Australia under the Refugee & Special Humanitarian Program where they were forced to flee from countries because of fear of being persecuted due to religion, race and nationality or being a member of a social or political group. Many of these families have witnessed loved ones being killed and experienced the pillaging and complete destruction of their homes and neighborhoods, arriving in Australia with very few personal belongings and a fractured sense of self, family and community.