Behind every case is a person with strengths, ambitions, and the potential to make a difference. These are their stories.
Akol Manyang Nyinde Koor waited eight years for her visa to be approved. When she finally arrived in Armidale, NSW in March 2025 — pregnant and without access to Centrelink — Mosaic helped her family find work, independence and belonging.
After fleeing Shingal during the 2014 ISIS attack and spending four years in refugee camps, Orien Khalaf arrived in Australia and found not just safety, but purpose — working as a Bilingual Support Worker at Mosaic.
John Bell spent a career as a nurse and decades caring for his wife — until a stroke took his independence overnight. With a care plan built around what he still wanted to do himself, and support worker Kiri Telesny by his side, John has stayed exactly who he's always been: independent, connected, and himself.
Mustafa Mohmand arrived in Australia having forgotten football. Now he coaches the senior women's National Premier League side at Maitland FC — and his journey began with Mosaic's COMPACT program.
When Sumie Miyagawa moved to the Central Coast, the Japanese community she'd built in Sydney was gone. A multicultural playgroup led her to Mosaic — and a quiet suggestion to Natalia grew into a Japanese Family Group that now gathers nine families every Monday.
When Mansoor Ahmed Subhani moved to the Central Coast, he was raising his children without the extended family he'd grown up counting on. A chance meeting at a playground led him to Mosaic's Playing Around the World program — and the village he thought his children would grow up without.
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