VASS Peacebuilding Arts Project
Victorian Arabic Social Services -
May 2008
The Peacebuilding Arts Projects is a dynamic new project harnessing the creative energies of youth from Arabic backgrounds to find a voice and express experiences through art.
The project is run by Victorian Arabic Social Services in collaboration with motivated young men from the community who canvassed the project idea to VASS.
The art project will be overseen by a trained artist/art therapist. The work/s will be displayed at community events and in public spaces.
Eastweb has supported this great new project with a grant of $2000.
For more information, contact Gaby at eastweb@infoxchange.net.au
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27-05-2008
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Sewing from Home
Australian Arabic Womens' Community Group -
February 2008
'Sewing from Home' is the name a group of mostly newly arrived women from Arabic speaking countries have given to their new sewing group. The name captures the hope that through participating in the group and its sewing program, women will be able to take their skills home with them and apply them to sew for their families and to start small enterprises.
The sewing course runs for 12 weeks, in which time the women will learn to make patterns, repair and adjust clothes and apply different sewing tasks. The focus will be on both traditional and modern styles.
Women participating in the program come from many Arabic speaking countries, including Lebanon, Morocco and Jordan.
EatWeb has contributed $2000 to help get the program off the ground.
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01-04-2008
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Healthy Families, Healthy Communities
Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau -
Healthy Families, Healthy Communities is run out of Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau (SCAAB). The project targets newly arrived women, most of who have been here less than 2 years, from the Afghan, Nuba Mountains (Sudan) and Nuer (Sudan) communities.
The project, based on peer educator models, is to train an initial group of bilingual women volunteers from the target communities in Food Safety and Handling by a Nutritionist/Dietitian from the Southern Health Service, as well as nutrition, healthy eating and reading packaging labels. These community educators will then be supported by SCAAB workers to run community education sessions which will include planning, budgeting, trips to the shops and supermarkets and preparing food.
The EastWeb Fund has provided a seed grant to support the program in its initial phase.
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11-03-2008
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South Sudanese Youth Access Program
September 2007
The Youth Access Program aims to bring Sudanese and other interested youth together to play basketball. Through this shared activity, the organisers hope to create a space for young people to connect, to build their confidence, to focus their energies on positive, healthy and fun things and to create relationships between Sudanese youth and the wider community.
It is expected that approximately 50 young people will get involved in the basketball team and that it might also be a comfortable space for young women to get involved.
EastWeb has provided funds to the New Hope Foundation to assist this program to get off the ground. Stay tuned for updates on the basketballers progress...
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22-11-2007
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Recording of Sudanese Traditional Folk Songs and Lullabies
September 2007
This project will bring Sudanese women in the Brimbank area together to sing and share traditional folk songs. Sudanese women have reported concerns that they are forgetting their cultural practices - practices which would have previously been practiced with other women. Gathering Sudanese women from Brimbank together to sing and record their songs will provide opportunities for increased connectedness within the community; increased connection to services and subsequent improvements in mental health and self-esteem, whilst working towards the maintenance of this important cultural heritage.
The group will select and practice a number of traditional songs to be recorded professionally in a CD with artwork for the cover to be provided by the participants children.
We look forward to sharing in this precious music.
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22-11-2007
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