Welcome

ChangeMakers Refugee Forum is a human rights organisation supporting refugee-background communities in New Zealand.

We are a non-government (NGO) umbrella organisation for 14 communities in the Wellington Region – Afghani, Assyrian, Burmese, Cambodian, Colombian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Iraqi, Oromo, Somali, Rwandan, Sudanese, Ugandan and Zimbabwean.

We are run by refugees, for refugees. This makes us unique in New Zealand, and perhaps in the world (we have yet to find a similar organisation).

We are a collective voice for the issues of concern to refugees resettling here in New Zealand.

Underpinning our work are the Standards for Engagement. They provide a guide to organisations wanting to have respectful and meaningful engagement with people from refugee backgrounds.