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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Today Show Me The Way met with Anchor to say a big thankyou for their generous support in hosting our student websites. Anchor is now providing a virtual server to Show Me The Way to allow for the growth and number of our student sites.
Left to right: General Manager, Chris Maguire and Lola Forester, Chair, Show Me The Way, Shane Cox, Business Development Manager and Keiran Holloway, CEO, Anchor.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Show Me The Way Cultural Training
Lola Forester, Chair and Cultural Consultant to Show Me The Way, met with Michael West today to discuss the cultural aspects of our various workshops. Michael is coming on board as one of our cultural facilitators starting July.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Show Me The Way shares office with Maxima
On Wednesday this week, Chair Lola Forester and General Manager Chris Maguire from Show Me The Way met with Brendan Littlechild, National Manager, Indigenous Employment Programs from the Maxima Group to view the new shared office at Broadway, Glebe in Sydney. ..
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Story courtesy the Koori Mail
ABORIGINAL students from Cape York now have a new a place to live and learn in Cairns while they complete secondary schooling.
AFL Cape York House was officially opened in Cairns on Thursday and will provide support for up to 48 students from Years 8-12.
The Federal Government allocated $5.55 million through the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing towards the construction of AFL Cape York House.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin and Human Services Minister and Queensland Senator Jan McLucas congratulated the AFL, Education Queensland, Aboriginal Hostels and the Western Cape Communities Trust for their support of the project.
"AFL Cape York House is making an enormous difference for young people from the remote Indigenous communities of Cape York Peninsula, Torres Strait and the Gulf regions," Ms Macklin said.
"With the help of an education manager, careers manager and welfare support manager, students are able to develop their life skills, find employment opportunities and further their education."
Speaking at the official opening, Senator McLucas said AFL Cape York House would give Indigenous students safe accommodation while they live away from home to further their education, providing them with the best possible chance of getting a job and having a career.
"This facility not only gives students a place to sleep and eat, but it also engages them before and after school," she said.
Source: The Koori Mail
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Story courtesy the Koori Mail
A STORY by Doris Jayirtna Laurel, relating her experiences of World War II, Kuli palunyan luwarnani kartiyawarnirlu (The War Story), is now available online. Indigenous interpreter Annette Kogolo lives and works in the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia's Kimberley and was moved to read about her aunty's war experiences in which she describes a little-known war incident when two female Japanese pilots crashed near Nookanbah.
"I knew about the war stories, but I didn't really know my aunty's full story until I read her book," Ms Kogolo said.
The book is one of 65 stories that were self-published by the Kadjina Aboriginal community, 100km south of Fitzroy Crossing, between 1998 and 2002 and are now available online. Written in English, Walmajarri and Kriol, the collection is a mix of original stories, modern retellings of traditional stories and illustrated records of traditional knowledge.
The stories, including Yukarnujuwal Jilpirtijarti (The Sleepy Snake), Parriwarnti Ruwajuwalwarnti (Hunting Boys), and Wajilipungujangka Ngangkirr Ngangkirr (The Pig Chase), were written and illustrated by children, teenagers and adults.
"These books are really special, especially for the kids," Ms Kogolo said.
"They feel really proud because they can read the stories and say, 'This is my grandmother's story'."
In an initiative driven by the adults in Kadjina community and the Wulungarra School, the books were produced to maintain and strengthen cultural knowledge in the community.
Community and school chairperson Yangkana Madeleine Laurel and visiting artist Vivienne McDermott wanted to make the stories more accessible so they contacted the State Library of WA using contacts made through the library's family literacy program, 'Better Beginnings'.
Damien Webb, an Indigenous literacy project officer for the library, worked with the Kadjina community to have the books taken to Perth, digitised, reprinted and returned.
The complete digitised Walmajarri Language Stories Collection can be seen on the State Library's online catalogue: catalogue.slwa.
wa.gov.au/record=b3303747~S2
In addition to digitising the Walmajarri Language Stories Collection, the State Library provides access to Ara Irititja (www.irititja.com), a unique, culturally-appropriate digital platform that helps Indigenous communities digitise, store and access their own cultural heritage.
PIC: State Library project officer Damien Webb with Indigenous interpreter Annette Kogolo and her aunt's book Kuli palunyan luwarnani kartiyawarnirlu (The War Story).
Source: The Koori Mail
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