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... call the Gambling Help hotline on 1800 858 858 from 9am to 5pm weekdays. For more information The Gambling Help website also contains advice, gambling calculators, assistance for non-English speakers ...
Friday, 06 January 2012
... Khammathit, or Dang, as she prefers to be called. “When I arrived I did not speak English and there was no transportation,” Dang explained. “I got casual jobs at the nearby farms picking mangoes, pawpaws, ...
Monday, 07 November 2011
3. Mission Australia Educates on Problem Gambling
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... West Tigers, Newcastle Knights, and in the English Super League. Having experienced the detrimental effects of problem gambling personally, Craigie felt strongly about helping educate frontline workers ...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
4. Deadly trip for Kempsey teens
(News/Media Releases Archive)
...  Mariah is in Year 11 at Kempsey’s Melville High and is studying industrial technology, English, Aboriginal studies, maths, geography and childcare vocational education. She told The Manly Daily she’s ...
Thursday, 29 September 2011
... technology, English, Aboriginal studies, maths, geography and childcare vocational education. She told The Manly Daily she’s thinking about becoming a dentist when she leaves school and said the program ...
Thursday, 29 September 2011
... - all with limited English skills - are currently sharing one room. Our services has been finding that because boarding house residents spend most, if not all, of their income on rent they don’t have ...
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
... experience housing stress Unemployed people are 15 times more likely to live in unaffordable housing than full-time employed people Women, Indigenous people and people born in non-English speaking ...
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Last night comedian Anh Do won the Australian Book Industry Awards for his memoir The Happiest Refugee, which dealt with his early challenges learning to speak and write English. Do’s story had a happy ...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
... out there again,” said CYI Tutor Michael Hanlon. It was one of two songs the children wrote over four days when CYI visited last August, the other being ‘By The Bridge’, sung in English. When CYI returned ...
Thursday, 07 July 2011
... a new life, she spent her first years in Australia improving her English language skills. “I remember how hard it was for me and my family to live in Australia because we did not know English and e...Refugee ...
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
... ancestry, languages spoken at home and level of English proficiency.* The MMHA report shows that existing homelessness data does not meet this benchmark because country‐of‐birth is likely to be the only ...
Tuesday, 07 June 2011
12. Fighting the drop-out factor
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... didn't make it. "I thought about dropping out in year 9 because of the way my grades were going. I just wanted to go out with mates and have fun." Abdallah carried on but struggled with English in ...
Tuesday, 03 May 2011
Homes in Australia are among the most unaffordable in the English-speaking world and we all feel the strain of ever-increasing living costs. As rent continues to rise in major urban areas - where most ...
Sunday, 01 May 2011
14. A chance to assist migrants
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... Scheme volunteer who has been tutoring Manizha Zaki from Afghanistan in Englishfor four years. "I have learnt a lot from Manizha and gained a wonderful friend," she said. "Watching her English skills ...
Monday, 18 April 2011
15. Literacy courses ‘a lifesaver’
(News/Media Releases Archive)
... early school leavers or those with a history of interrupted schooling, as well people for whom English is a second language. Ms Seears finished high school in 2002 and started a diploma in hospitality ...
Thursday, 14 April 2011
MA Media Release, 29 March 2011  Mission Australia's Home Tutor Service (HTS) in Parramatta is crying out for volunteers to teach newly arrived refugees and migrants English language skills to help them ...
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
... said. Up to 20 students in the program will study VCE level English and Human Development, taught by teachers from Hallam Secondary College, in a four-day week. Homework can be completed in the afternoon, ...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
... and Enhancement Program in Sydney’s south-western and western suburbs. The Home Tutor Scheme is part of the Adult Migrant English Program, which is funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, ...
Monday, 21 March 2011
... 13th) day of the month? It’s a reminder of how complex and rich the English language is – and just how difficult it must be for non-native speakers to master. Through its Language, Literacy and Numeracy ...
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
... including young parents with children – many from non-English speaking backgrounds. Funded by the Department of Community Services, Mission Australia’s CBYS is designed around the needs of young people ...
Friday, 04 February 2011
...  Retail and youth work  English language and adult literacy. For more information about the courses we offer please call Mission Australia’s RTO Manager on (07) 3847 8411. The training.gov.au ...
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
22. A refuge from home
(Daily News/Blog)
... and moved back with his family, and has completed a Certificate IV in Written and Spoken English at TAFE. He now seeks to study further. "It was a pleasure having Jafar to stay with us," says his host ...
Monday, 06 September 2010
23. Language, Literacy and Numeracy Program
(Community Services/Community Services)
... barriers to employment and to make life easier for your client. All our courses are available at no cost and are supplied by Mission Australia. Who might benefit? Clients for whom English is a second ...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
... in Giving Society, Kiama Lions club, Sir David Martin Foundation, Margaret Callister, Elaine McKinnon, Linda English and Ian Wells. Sir David Martin Foundation's Janine Jackson was overjoyed at the arrival. ...
Monday, 01 March 2010
25. Volunteering Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)
...  Home Tutors  Description Become a home tutor and teach basic English to a newly-arrived migrant or refugee in their home for 1 hour a week. Volunteers can also teach a community class at ...
Saturday, 01 August 2009
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