CAB LANGUAGE
LINK
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Who are we?
CAB Language Link is part of the Citizens Advice
Bureau
We are an independent community organisation
funded by Immigration New Zealand
to provide free, confidential information, advice,
support and advocacy in 24 ethnic languages
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Who are we?- A CAB Service
• A key part of the Citizens Advice Bureau
service
• One of 92 CAB sites around the country
• CAB Trained Interviewers
• Utilise CAB Systems
– Training
– IT
– Quality Assurance
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Our objective
Our aim is to ensure that everyone can:
• Participate in society
• Express their needs effectively
• Know their rights and responsibilities
• Know about services in NZ and how to
access them
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Our strengths
• National Reach
• Free, impartial and confidential service
• We help the client with any issue, in their
own language
• We do case management and advocacy
• We are exempt from the Immigration
Advisers Act
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Our distinctive features
• We give information and advice in 24
languages
• We all are CAB trained interviewers
• CAB Language Link interviewers are migrants
and former refugees
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Languages we cover
Amharic
Dari
Hindi
Korean
Sinhala
Taiwanese
Arabic
English
Japanese
Kurdish
Somali
Tamil
Burmese
Farsi
Kirundi
Mandarin Spanish
Urdu
Cantonese
French
Kiswahili
Russian
Vietnamese
Tagalog
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Some topics we help people with
Immigration
Education
Community links
Income support
Tenancy
Banking & Financial services
Legal Services
Taxes
Health Service Providers
Job related
Transport
Embassies & Consulates
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CAB LANGUAGE LINK
Contact us:
Phone:
09 624 2550
0800 78 88 77 (free phone)
Visit:
521d Mt. Albert Road,
Three Kings,
Auckland
Email:
language@cab.org.nz
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