Could refugees be the solution to saving struggling towns?
A year ago the small rural community of Mingoola on the New South Wales-Queensland border was facing a bleak future. Meanwhile in Western Sydney, refugee advocate Emmanuel Musoni saw problems affecting people in his community who’d come from war-ravaged countries of central Africa.
When they were put in contact late last year, they saw a solution to both their problems; a model many now believe could be used to help struggling rural communities across the country.
You can read more about Mingoola’s social experiment here:
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I have learnt that you cant live alone….
A truly beautiful story of integration & inclusion!
Wow! A beautiful story.
This warms my heart. The horrors the parents went through 😢
i like australia i wish i was there
I think I watched this on TV, I love success stories of migrants, as I'm one too, but haven't done nothing exiting
Got you on g to he run baby
Perhaps the Australian Government could start allowing white refugees in from the UK where life is going down the pan along with society due to all the illegal immigration being allowed to happen there.
Most of the trouble in central africa and coming down Mozambique are Islamic stated terrorists!
If you get good African people you get the best there are
Lived I rural africa and these people are the best hardworking decent you will get but have no chance in africa ! The governments take all the monies and they get nothing !
African can do alot if you welcome them with open hands
I would love to thank this family for welcome our african brothers and sisters its warms our heart and may God bless you
I would love to thank this family for welcome our african brothers and sisters its warms our heart and may God bless you
What a shame the plan failed. Hopefully it can be replicated successfully in other communities
I love it so much . I have 100 acres in Noosa Hinterland that would love to accommodate a family to help with farm and be part of it . Dave
I needed this today
Happy that they contribute. 👍
Same kind of "refugees" is destroying Europe… literally.
Think I'm joking? Just look at the daliy news.
I watched this a few years ago and stumbled across it again so rewatched cos I loved it the first time round. 8 years later i'm so curious to know if this program continued to succeed and thrive. I'd love an update to this episode. **edited to add- I did a quick google search and found out that after a few successful years both African families had to move out of Mingoola due to the drought and lack of medical facilities. Both the Mingoola residents and the refugees hope they can all return when the drought ends/ improves and personal health issues are taken care of. I'd call that a success.
some people are just good people,,, humanity still has hope. Thank you for the story
It’s quite sad to see that in 2025 all the African families have left and mingoola has a population of 18.
What a beautiful story❤
I would love to live there ❤❤❤
so i actually love this and think we should do more of it. would actually prefer the gov to encourage migrants to rural areas which saves dying towns, breaks the political monopoly that cities have on politics by pure weight of numbers, and relieves pressure on the city housing market and collapses the ponzi scheme set up by piece of sht property developers in the city