The African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 by refugees and Israeli citizens to assist, support and empower refugees and asylum seekers in Israel. The ARDC seeks to ensure access to basic social services, to facilitate integration and promote self-sufficiency. It also advocates for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and for a humane and fair Israeli asylum policy. The ARDC's work includes individual counseling, humanitarian aid, education, community development, awareness raising and policy initiatives. Through the ARDC, diverse communities are drawn together to promote understanding and cooperation amongst refugees and the broader population.
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16/06/2013
A recent article in the Israel Post, which was subsequently translated into English and published in the Jerusalem Post, addressed the topic of asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv. Unfortunately...
26/05/2013
Towards the end of May, some rare good news for Israel's asylum seekers emerged - the Eritrean Community Women's Centre in Tel Aviv had received the most votes in a New Israel Fund UK-...
24/03/2013
On Thursday, March 21 ARDC held its annual Refugee Seder in Levinsky Park. Pesach, the Jewish festival commemorating the exodus from Egypt some 3,000 years ago, is an important moment for ARDC...
