Green Connect: The farm helping refugees build a life in Australia

Name: Green Connect: The farm helping refugees build a life in Australia
Uploaded: 2022-01-02T18:26:25.000Z
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: It has employed 5,000 people in the past decade and "dramatically" changed fortunes, refugees say.

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Green Connect is an Australian urban farm that employs former refugees who are struggling to find work.

Emmanuel Bakenga tells the BBC how it "changed his life dramatically" after he arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Video by Isabelle Rodd

Australia

3 January 2022