Founder and CEO of Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM and his team raised just under one and a half million dollars for World Refugee Day in 17 hours.
In a post on X last Thursday, June 20, Karapanagiotidis shared how the ASRC team raised $1,384,790 as of 11 pm on World Refugee Day. By Monday, 24th, the $1.4 million target had reportedly been reached.
Karapanagiotidis also thanked those who donated to the cause later in the post.
The Melbournian of the Year for 2023 has established a virtuous domain of volunteers, many of whom are refugees and migrants themselves.
As the son of migrants who fled war-torn Greece in the 1950s, his aim continues to encourage every second and third generation of Greeks, born here, to remember where they have come from.
