What we Do

Every week TRAMS is a buzz of movement, colour, sound and business!! Volunteers are linked with newly arrived refugee families in the community.  Free English classes are provided. Volunteers care for babies and young children whilst parents are learning English. Computer lessons are offered.  Homework tutoring takes place as well as cooking and sewing classes, community meetings, education and advocacy.

Members of the refugee and migrant community can drop into TRAMS for information, referral and assistance or make use of our computer bank to connect with friends and family overseas or search for a job. TRAMS also offers its Centre as a venue for migrant and refugee communities to hold meetings and events.

The Centre also provides opportunities for volunteer social events and gatherings involving clients and volunteers celebrating together.

We are committed to upholding the dignity of all people and we strive to treat every guest at TRAMS with respect and a with a willingness to understand.  We are not a charity and are not here to offer “a handout” but rather to empower refugees and migrants, through friendship and communication, with the skills needed to be fully integrated into their new home.  As such, TRAMS is a place of welcome where the gifts of refugees, migrants and volunteers together enrich the Toowoomba community through centre based activities and support.

The basic principles upon which all our work at TRAMS is founded include:

*Empowerment

*Respect for all people, treating them with dignity

*Embracing diversity

*Local people responding to local unmet needs

*Preferential option for the poor

*Humour

*Inclusivity- we will not exclude people on the basis of race, religion, gender, age or visa class

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