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5th Birthday for Volt Youth Enterprise Centre |
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| Tuesday, 12 August 2008 15:03 | ||||
 The Mission Australia VOLT will celebrate five years of providing services and support to young people in Adelaide’s southern suburbs with a birthday party at the VOLT on Friday.The party – complete with birthday cake - will be staged at the VOLT Youth Enterprise Centre at the corner of Aldinga Beach Road and Pridham Boulevard, Aldinga Beach, on Friday, 15th August from 3pm until 5pm. The Mission Australia VOLT Youth Enterprise Centre is an Onkaparinga Youth Services program, supported by the City of Onkaparinga, which provides recreation, leadership and professional development training and activities to young people in the Willunga Basin area. More than 100 people are expected to attend the birthday celebrations, at which local Sellicks bands Zephyr, Mysto the Magician and aerosol artist Sam Evans will provide entertainment. Special guests include the Member for Kingston, Amanda Rishworth, and the Mayor of City of Onkaparinga, Lorraine Rosenberg. The cake will be cut at about 4 pm. Mission Australia Service Manager Kerrie Sellen said the party had been organised to honour the work of staff and volunteers over five years, and to recognise the commitment of the young people who have participated in the VOLT’s programs. The support of Federal and State governments and corporate sponsors had also been crucial in establishing and maintaining the VOLT as an important centre for young people, she said. “The success of the VOLT in this community has been the result of a real joint effort between Mission Australia and City of Onkaparinga, the young people who have welcomed us, and the community that has supported us for five years,” Ms Sellen said. Ms Sellen estimated that more than 5,000 young people had attended VOLT programs and activities since it opened on 9 August 2003. In 2007-08 alone, 2,000 young people attended VOLT’s pre-employment training, personal development and leadership program, hip hop and other music and art workshops. Recent additions to VOLT’s activities include the Handy Parents program, introduced late last year, in which young parents learn to make furniture and toys for their children, and the Seaford Workers Crew’s work with students at Seaford 6-12 in school landscaping projects. Other young people are working on a play about the life of Douglas Mawson with the Nervus Wrex Drama Group, and creating aerosol murals in the community. “The vast majority of the young people we’ve welcomed here have moved on feeling better about themselves and their social and work prospects, and with improved opportunities to obtain work and relate successfully with others in their lives,” Ms Sellen said. MEDIA INQUIRIES: For information about the party, or to arrange photography at the event, contact Kerrie Sellen on 8326 1114 or Chris Rann at Rann Communication on 8211 7771. 
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