NEWSLETTER: Footscray campus (September 2005)

The 'let us know' list

1. If any of your contact details have changed, please let us know.
2. If you are planning to have contact with your student outside of SAIL
hours you must let us know first and complete the contact request form.
3. If you intend to bring a friend to SAIL please direct them to the website first and direct them to apply online or just let us know beforehand.
4. Let us know if you are going to miss a Saturday by email, phone or the "Can't Come Sheet"- now also online here!
5. Please check and read your emails each week- if possible, Friday is best!
6. Please let us know before you speak publicly or publish an article about SAIL.

Ongoing offers

1. Photocopying- for any SAIL related photocopying, simply mark the pages from the books you want copied and give the book to Will, Cait or the library crew on Saturday- it will be ready for you the following week!

2. If you would like to post an ad or some other information relating
to SAIL or another not-for-profit venture in which you are involved, please email it to SAIL@africanoz.com to be included in the next newsletter.

3. The Tutor Resources section of the website is available at all times to provide tutors with ideas, games, work-sheets and support. We strongly suggest that if you are experiencing difficulties of any kind when working with your student, you post a request for advice on the SAIL Panel of Experts Bulletin Board (accessible from the Tutor Resources section). Tutor Resources can be accessed from here!


Please read this newsletter in the following week, it gives
updates on SAIL past, present and future!

Last month saw the biggest SAIL celebration so far this year, the birthday. It was an
immensely successful day, with everything from daredevil circus performers, rappers with ‘tude to copious cake! The festivities continued into the evening where all that attended were treated to a second performance by Ajak Kwai, Tasmania’s Sudanese singing sensation.

The wholeSAIL photo was an incredible effort – 15 minutes, 500 people, three photographers and one brilliant set of photos! The results are available for the a limited time for down load at http://www.lucidcreations.com.au/SAILPhotos

A big Thank-You to all those involved in making it happen:
• The fabulous SAIL Kitchen team, for living out the instruction: “Let them eat
• cake”. And eat they did!
• To all those wonderful cake bakers (students included!).
• To the daredevil circus performers, who showcased some of their talents which were just a hint of what we can expect from their up-coming performance.
• To the soon to be pop stars Winnie and Agok, and the volunteers Jenni and Alice.
• To the participants of SCRAYP drama and rap project for their stunning performance.
And finally to everyone in all areas of SAIL, without whom there would be nothing to celebrate!

Week 5 falls on 1 October. We invite everyone to join one of the SAIL Tutor Talks.
• The community talk will be about Fire Safety and will be run by Monica Majak and Chris Hare from the Fire Brigade.  For SAIL Senior tutors, please encourage your students to attend!

For the junior talk - There will be a meeting run by Chris K., Junior Coordinator, for Junior Room volunteers. It is a great time to share ideas about SAIL Junior and we encourage ALL Junior volunteers to attend

• Senior and school-age SAILors are invited to an session on “trauma and its effects” a group workshop run by Karen Chugg from the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture.

Student Surveys.

We would like to let all tutors know that this coming Saturday, a SAIL Student Survey will be handed out to all students. Please make time during the session to help your student, if need be, to fill in the survey, we would very much appreciate it! Please either hand it back to Matthew, Will, Cait, Caitlin or Cameron or pop it into the SAIL Star box in the library.

Once again, we ask volunteers who use the Church to make sure that the area in which they worked in is left tidy. We are also putting a call out for any volunteers who are willing and able to spend 10-15 fun-filled and
action packed minutes after tutoring time finishes to help out with
tidying up the Church. This would include vacuuming, putting away the
cushions and many more exciting jobs such as those! We already have a tidying up roster made up of people who just can’t get enough of these jobs, butwe would always like a few more helpers! If you are excited about this
prospect, pop your name down on the Can’t Come Sheet outside the Library,
or shoot an email to Will and Cait.

We are also planning to do a major clean up of the Hall in the coming
weeks, and are after some volunteers of the same calibre as the church
tidy-uppers who would be willing and able to join in the fun. Progress
has already been made by Josephine P., one of the Library volunteers/SAIL
Super Cleaner, but she needs help! For an example of her work, check out
the Junior Room cupboard behind the Worksheets’ Table, which Josephine
bravely tackled last week and whose shelves weep quietly every time someone passes by. If you are up for this challenge, please let Will and Cait know.

If anyone lives near Richmond and would be prepared to pick up the donated bread from Victoria Gardens Shopping Complex on Friday nights between 7:30-8:00 we would be eternally grateful. A job share is also a possibility. If you are willing and able, please contact Will or Cait.

We are sorry to announce that from now on, texta use will be confined to the outside area, and the Hall but not in the Church. Although we have enjoyed seeing the artistic whims of some students develop on the pews, cushions, and of last week, the carpet on the altar, we have decided it may be more productive having that played out on paper! Paper is easier to pin up on walls in galleries! There will therefore no longer be textas in the pencil containers distributed in the Church.

A small request to SAILors one and all to please ensure that the following email addresses are on your email “safe list”. This will aid us in keeping you in the SAIL loop on an ongoing basis.
sail@africanoz.com
sailfootscray@africanoz.com
sailtransport@africanoz.com
sailadmin@africanoz.com

Got some lonely, dejected, old plastic bags, magazines or posters? We hate to hear about these and so we have decided to set up the SAIL “pre-loved bags, magazines and posters club”. Their meetings will happen in the library. Anyone is welcome to donate any that they have spare at any time ie. we would love to make use of them for SAILing purposes!

We would also donations of old Melways. Drivers are growing and Melways are leaving the library at a rate of knots. If you have an old one that is now unloved, please bring it to the library.

The Richmond Soccer Club Sudanese team had their final game and performed tremendously well winning four games for the year. A great effort in their first season in the big league!

A parenting course has begun for the SAIL Seniors. The map reading, L’s and Ps course in Arabic and Dinka continue at full force.

The next SAIL Xtend cycle features circus performance, percussion workshop, hockey and cooking. This is the second last cycle and we want to thank all the performers and coordinators.

Yarra youth services have released an unlimited pass for secondary students for the recreation centres in the City of Yarra during the school holiday for only $19. SO if your students live in the City of Yarra. Please call David Mawdsley on 9416 2200 or let your student know about this deal.

The Welcome Day, brings together 40 young newly arrived teenagers who have been participating in circus training with the Westside Circus over the last 2 months, these include students from The Western English Language School, ST Albans Secondary College, and SAIL.
The welcome day is an afternoon jam packed with fun for the whole family to enjoy, with free workshops and performances.

The Welcome Day : Saturday 8th October 1:30-4:30pm at The Living Museum of the West, Van Ness Ave Maryibrynong. Pipemakers Park melway
ref 28 b10 across the road from Highpoint.

free workshops and activities: 1:30-2:30pm
Sudanses cultural performances: 2:30-3:30pm
circus performance extravagansa by the young newly arrived teens: 330-430pm

The whole day is free, fun and a fantastic way to celebrate the young circus performers hard work and achievements and to try out some fun activities yourself. Come one come all!

We invite you to a free event to celebrate African music and culture. Saturday 1/10/2005
Venue: Collingwood Town Hall
140 Hoddle Street, Collingwood
Time: 3.00pm-9.00pm

Bands include Ajak Kwai (Sudan), and Southern Sudanese Musika and The Sudanese Catholic Choir

Plus: Live Bands, Hair show, Fashion Parade and exhibition of African hand crafts, clothing, music DVDs, CDs &Tapes.

You are also warmly invited to come along and participate in the celebration festival. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the success of African Youth.
Date: Saturday 1st October 2005,
Venue: Grattan Community Centre, 40 Grattan Street, Prahran 3181.
Time: 6.00pm – 11.00pm.

Courtesy of SAILor Jenni S, we pass on this information;

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) for Marie Stopes
International Australia (MSIA): Intake 15, March 2006 MSIA (a reproductive health NGO) are currently looking to nominate five
young professionals for overseas posts for the governments Australian Youth Ambassador for Development (AYAD) program. You must be an Australian citizen, under 30 and meet the selection criteria. The post is for one year departing in March/April 2006.
The positions are:
* Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Advisor in Papua New Guinea
* Marketing/Project Assistant in Viet Nam
* Project Assistant in

* Fiji,
* Cambodia
* China

If you think you have the drive and commitment to take on one of these positions please submit your CV and covering letter addressing the selection criteria to Jennifer at jennifer.sainsbury@mariestopes.org.au by the 27th of September 2005. If your application is successful you will then need to submit a separate application to AusAID by the 21st of October 2005.

It with great pleasure that we announce that one of the very first SAILors, Sima Manyiel was recently drafted by an American College to play for their basketball team. Sima, now at almost 7 feet tall, will be heading off later in the year to take up the scholarship. We congratulate Sima for moving from SAIL directly onto the world basketball stage.