For more information about the Gone Fishing program – click HERE
In October, Foundation CEO, Anthony Ryan, led a second highly successful Gone Fishing Program for 2013. Gone Fishing is a challenging international professional development program aimed at connecting decision makers in corporate Australia with the peoples of Africa. The program involves a 12 day immersion with placements in a number of the projects supported by the Edmund Rice Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya.
For a video clip of the October Gone Fishing Program – click HERE
Pictured: Two Gone Fishing participants at the Mary Rice Centre with Centre staff and program members in MRC’s new premises – converted shipping containers. MRC’s services support children with disabilities from Nairobi’s Kibera slum.
In January, nine Year 12 students and three staff members from Parade College, Bundoora (Melbourne), spent 19 days immersed in the life and culture of Kenya. Their experience included placements at three of the projects supported by the Foundation – Brother Beausang Primary & Secondary School, Mary Rice Centre and Ruben Centre.
For a report on the immersion from the Parade College Newsletter of February 6, 2013 – click HERE
For a report on the Parade Immersion on the Mary Rice Centre blog – click HERE
Hadithi Zetu (Our Stories) is the newsletter of Edmund Rice Volunteers and Immersions Victoria and Tasmania and is produced by the Youth Ministry Team (YMT) at Edmund Rice Centre (Amberley), Lower Plenty, Victoria, Australia, where YMT members organise and facilitate immersion experiences for young adults to Edmund Rice projects and programs in Africa and Oceania.
To read some of the remarkable stories and reflections of Edmund Rice volunteers and immersion participants, click on the links below:
Hadithi Zetu – First Edition – August 2011
Hadithi Zetu – Second Edition – September 2011
Hadithi Zetu – Third Edition – April 2012
Pictured: Australian volunteer in-servicing local teachers – Comunidade Edmund Rice – Timor Leste
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