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Email: RALS Telephone: 0408 763 981 Address: Refugee Airfare Loans Scheme, PO Box 5519, West End, Brisbane, QLD, 4101
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ABOUT RALS: The Refugee Airfare loan Scheme (RALS) was established in 2007 to assist with the international travel costs associated with the resettlement of refugees and their families in Australia. The Refugee Airfares Loan Scheme is a revolving loan fund that provides interest free loans to proposers or sponsors of humanitarian entrants holding Visa Class 202 and the immediate family of those who arrived in Australia as a refugee or humanitarian entrant. The Loan Scheme gives priority to people with a disability, frail aged people, unaccompanied minors and families with young children. The purpose of the Refugee Airfare Loans Scheme is to assist humanitarian entrants to reunite with their families, who would not otherwise be reasonably able to pay for their airfare from their country of refuge to Australia, by providing access to a loan to pay for their airfare. The Refugee Airfare Loans Scheme does this without charging interest and with a repayment plan tailored to suit the applicants' financial circumstances. The loan must only be used for the cost of the initial voyage from the country of refuge to Australia. The Refugee Airfare Loans Scheme is not simply a credit facility for airfares, it is a community-based initiative to assist refugees to settle in Australia. The purpose of having a revolving loan scheme is to maximise the capital available to assist people. This gives recipients an opportunity to assist the next generation of people in need. The Refugee Airfare loan Scheme (RALS) is a project of the West End Migrant and Refugee Support Group incorporated in the Community Initiatives Resource Association under the auspices of TEAR Australia.
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