New Zealand National Refugee Youth Council

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We engage, empower, and advocate for refugee background youth in Aotearoa, ensuring their voices shape policies, decisions, and opportunities that affect their lives. The New Zealand National Refugee Youth Council (NZNRYC) is a national refugee youth-led non-government organization that aims to engage, support, and advocate for refugee youth in New Zealand to enable them to lead meaningful lives.

14/09/2026

Level 2 unlocked! 🔑🎓

Last Saturday, we celebrated seven amazing young people completing Level 2 of our Meaningful Refugee Youth Participation Programme in Palmerston North! 💙

From learning together and discovering their strengths, to putting their leadership into action and designing and delivering their own community event, what a journey it has been! 🙌

So proud to celebrate everything this group has learned, created and accomplished together. 🥳💙

Next stop… Level 3 👀✨

🎉 Palmerston North young people, this one’s for you!Our young participants from the Meaningful Refugee Youth Participati...
04/09/2026

🎉 Palmerston North young people, this one’s for you!

Our young participants from the Meaningful Refugee Youth Participation Programme have planned a fun afternoon for young people to come together, connect and have a good time! 🙌🏽

Come along for games, food, prizes and lots of fun 🏆🍕✨

📅 Sunday, 6 September
⏰ 2:00pm – 4:30pm
📍 Awapuni Community Centre, Palmerston North

The event has been planned and organised by our Palmerston North young leaders as part of putting their leadership skills into action. 💛

Bring your friends and come join us. We’d love to see you there! 🎉

Poster design by Mohammad Abbas l محمد عباس 🇵🇸

13/08/2026

Language Challenge! One word, many languages!

Our Dunedin young people took turns sharing how the same words are said in the different languages they speak.

Now it’s your turn! Pick one of the words from the video, tell us how you say it in your language in the comments, and get your friends to show you some love! ❤️

The comment with the most likes wins a $20 Prezzy Card!

Happy International Youth Day! 🌏💛This year’s theme, “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations,” really speaks to the heart...
12/08/2026

Happy International Youth Day! 🌏💛

This year’s theme, “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations,” really speaks to the heart of our work at the Refugee Youth Council.

Young people from refugee backgrounds come from different countries, cultures, communities and experiences but we share many of the same hopes: to belong, to connect, to be heard, to have opportunities and to build a positive future. 🫶🏽

Today, we’re also looking back at some of our Youth Week celebrations, including this beautiful day in Levin!

Young people came together for a picnic filled with games, activities, laughter and plenty of good times.

Different contexts. Different journeys. Common aspirations. 💛

That’s what we’re proud to celebrate today and every day.

Happy International Youth Day! 🌏

Invercargill - National Refugee Youth Week Event 🎳🔥✨Our amazing Youth Leaders Jimmy and Andres hosted their National Ref...
06/08/2026

Invercargill - National Refugee Youth Week Event 🎳🔥✨

Our amazing Youth Leaders Jimmy and Andres hosted their National Refugee Youth Week event at the Retrobowl club!

What a blast all these wonderful rangatahi had. Thank you to every one of you for showing up and spending time together. When community shows us, it reminds us the importance of the collective wellbeing we can only build if we unite by celebrating and supportive each other.

Thank you for a wonderful event to our Invercargill Ayala 🥳 two amazing Rangatahi Tāne leading from aroha and passion!

Ngā mihi Invercargill team ✊🏽🎉🌱🌿🪴

This past Thursday was not a farewell, it was a “see you around” and a “can’t wait to grab coffee” Dr Claire, because al...
01/08/2026

This past Thursday was not a farewell, it was a “see you around” and a “can’t wait to grab coffee” Dr Claire, because although you must get your well deserved rest. We know your incredible mahi continues.

Thank you Dr Claire, truly, for all the incredible and extremely hard mahi you did during these past years.

We grew, because you told us we could, we gave it all to our mahi, because you did just exactly that, your example was a footprint we could follow, and your aroha told every single mokopuna and rangatahi “you got this, keep going.”

Such hard shoes to fill in, and we know that without such an amazing team at Mana Mokopuna it also would not have been possible. What a wonderful whānau you’ve got, thank you Mana Mokopuna Kaimahi for everything you all collectively achieved and for throwing Dr Claire a farewell deserving of her passion and dedication at such special place of mana Wāhine.

We will continue reaching out and hopefully keep our wonderful relationship created through two amazing Rangatira, Dr Claire and Matt Renata who have both supported our development and encouraged our mahi.

Ngā mihi Mana Mokopuna Kaimahi and Dr Clare 🩵💚

Dr Claire, your spot is engraved in our hearts forever, and the seed of love and care for our children has been planted deeply in rich soil. 🌱✨

23/07/2026

🌿 Youth Week, Wellington style.

Our Wellington crew spent the day at Battle Hill Farm Forest Park, hanging out with farm animals, sharing a picnic, exploring the outdoors, and making the most of a beautiful Wellington day. ☀️🐑

One of the best parts? Watching everyone switch off, enjoy the fresh air, and simply spend time together. Sometimes that’s exactly what we need.

A massive thank you to our Wellington refugee youth leaders for organising such an awesome day. This is what Youth Week is all about: young people creating opportunities for other young people to connect, have fun, and build community.

Wellington, you set the bar high. 💚 Stay tuned to see how our other regions celebrated Youth Week across Aotearoa!

KIA ORA HAMILTON!!Our National team is visiting this beautiful resettlement region today. And we would like to invite al...
28/06/2026

KIA ORA HAMILTON!!

Our National team is visiting this beautiful resettlement region today. And we would like to invite all young leaders age 16 to 25 years old from refugee background to join us.

We would like to know about the mahi young leaders and young professionals from different communities are doing in the Hamilton Region. If you are a young person in this age range who would like to find leadership opportunities, you’re also welcome to join us.

Please message us on our social media or email us on [email protected] to secure your seat.
After you RSVP or share your interest, we will share the location of our conference room for the afternoon.

This space welcomes any form of leaders and leadership, speeches, poetry, sharing of community work and development, project ideas presentations and the sharing of barriers and challenges faced by our former refugee youth in the sector.

EXCITED TO SEE YOU ALL THIS AFTERNOON!
🥳🌱🌿🪴🌳🙌🏾✨


We are excited to announce that our Auckland Youth Leaders alongside our NYEL, Levin Activator and Marketing Lead are ru...
27/06/2026

We are excited to announce that our Auckland Youth Leaders alongside our NYEL, Levin Activator and Marketing Lead are running a private youth engagement for the rangatahi from the intake 7 at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre this afternoon.

We extremely honoured and excited to be bringing our By Refugee Youth for Refugee Youth Mahi to the place we have all come through, a place of support, learning and guidance to all our Refugee Communities in Aotearoa.

Ngā mihi Nui, to the Mangere Resettlement Centre Team for all their wonderful work, specially Ko for helping us organise today with so much aroha 💚🧡🩵💛

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