REGIONAL SETTLEMENT PROGRAM

As a regional resettlement agency that specialises in creating communities in regional areas, GLAPD provides the support services of:

1. Finding Employment,
2. Finding Housing,
3. Finding land for farming and/or keeping animals (for those interested),
4. Supporting you feel at home in a regional community.

REGIONAL SETTLEMENT PROGRAM

This program is designed to contribute to the cure of chronic labour shortage in regional areas, whilst simultaneously affording jobs and better living standards for migrants and refugees.

Whilst employers in regional areas have been outsourcing labour from overseas because of shortage of skilled workers, there is an enormous skilled labour that is either underutilized or unutilized in big cities just because there is no connection between the two ends of labour demand and labour supply. GLAPD has been in this field for four years making tremendous connections.

We match the two ends of labour demand and supply, by purposely aiming to create and reinvigorate regional communities whose population trend has been declining for years.

WHO DO WE SUPPORT?

We support African refugees, TPV & SHEV visa holders, asylum seekers (Bridging visa holders), permanent residents and citizens who are eligible to work and live in Australia and who are willing to work and live in regional areas.

HOW DO WE SUPPORT YOU?

There are three stages in the process of resettlement: Pre-resettlement, Resettlement and Post-resettlement.

Thus, our support activities are broken in those stages that provide an integrated service package. Our staff prepares you by requesting documentation that justifies your qualifications, skills and rights to work and live in Australia, as part of the pre-settlement stage. While the previous stage opens-up employment opportunities for you, the resettlement stage involves organizing school enrolments, signing lease contracts and moving to the host community. In the post-resettlement stage, we will help you to connect with the local community through a facilitator so you can be part of the local associations and clubs, learning about local services, etc.

As a regional resettlement agency that specialises in creating communities in regional areas, GLAPD provides these support services:

1. Employment,
2. Establishing a business,
3. Housing,
4. Finding land for farming and/or keeping animals (for those interested),
5. Supporting you feel at home in a regional community.

We address the following issues in regional areas:

1. Bridge the employment gap in areas where chronic labour shortage has forced employers to outsource overseas workers.
2. Increase numbers in schools and reduce school closures.
3. Increase subscriptions in local infrastructure and use them to full capacity [i.e.: join swimming clubs, join different sports clubs, etc..].
4. Increase agricultural production and revamp regional food and fibre industry.
5. Increase membership of local chambers of commerce by growing new business initiatives.

We address the following issues impacting migrants and refugees:

1. Unemployment and under-employment by participating fully in the Australian economy.
2. Lack of affordable lifestyles (reasonable living standards).
3. Improving English language proficiency through employment.
4. Facilitating agricultural and farming opportunities.
5. Becoming independent business owners.

DO YOU WISH TO MOVE TO A REGIONAL AREA IN AUSTRALIA?

People move to regional areas for different reasons:

1. Search for employment
2. Carry out business
3. Affordable living standards
4. Lifestyle that is more appealing i.e. less pollution and traffic
5. Search for agricultural and farming opportunities.