Same Skies honours the resilience, capacity and skills of refugee and asylum seeker communities. We support people to support themselves. We see the people we work with as capable actors to strengthen their own communities while living in limbo, waiting for asylum claims to be processed and durable solutions to be found. We provide educational, technical, logistical and financial assistance to empower communities. We deliver training in project design and management, fundraising and other topic as required.

Our Vision

Refugees & asylum seekers in transit live with self-determination & dignity

The establishment of Same Skies was inspired by the founders’ many years of international refugee work, including on Nauru and Manus Island.

We realised that refugees are too often perceived as vulnerable or even as a burden, and that their needs are still mostly defined by outsiders. The consequence are often expensive, top-down assistance programmes that let the potential of refugees go to waste. There is an urgent need for innovative approaches that have the capacity to address enormous global challenges, while at the same time genuinely empowering displaced communities to live with self-determination and dignity.