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Settlement agency AMES Australia has released a new mobile app to help migrants and refugees from non-English speaking backgrounds resume their professional careers after they settle Down Under.

The Connect Match Support Program will leverage Accenture’s digital tools and resources to enhance employability skills and provide refugees with job readiness support.

Veteran-founded organisation WithYouWithMe is allocating $10 million dollars of free digital skills training to Afghan refugees following the fall of Kabul.

Not-for-profit GP clinic Inala Primary Care has been awarded for its work on developing an app designed to tackle the problem of doctors being too time-poor to work out which immunisations newly arrived refugees need.

Sri Lankan and Filipino refugees sheltered NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden from the time he left a hotel in Hong Kong until he was able to leave the territory, according to a German newspaper.

A program created by WorkVentures with the backing of the Commonwealth Government and Microsoft aims to help recent migrants and refugees settle in Australia by helping them gain basic computer skills.

Billed as a 'global first', an Aussie school is forming a 'unique partnership' with a Ugandan refugee school, letting school kids 'in both countries to learn about each other's lives, as part of their geography lessons' - courtesy of Skype and the UNHCR's Australian division.