SAIL Program Newsletter March 2005
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Welcome and welcome back to the SAIL Program for 2005! There is already plenty going on and
about to happen so please, read on, indulge, relax, grab a cuppa, and maybe a Tim Tam and
descend into the comfortable world of SAILmania!
Updating contact details
SAILors tend to be movers and shakers. Shakers should keep the details to themselves. Movers need to let us
know every detail so we can keep them in the loop. If your contact details have changed over summer, even a
single digit of them, please let us know by emailing Marg, Admin Extraordinaire at
sailadmin@africanoz.com.
Setting SAIL
A request. A plea. A beg. SAIL starts at 10:30am. This means we want you to be at SAIL with your student at
10:30am. In case you aren’t hearing us, here is a list of things we don’t want you to be doing at 10:30am;
sleeping, driving to SAIL, cursing the traffic or mowing the lawn while wondering if you are supposed to be
somewhere.
Please ensure you allow time to get to SAIL and to start by 10:30am. If you want to start earlier, that’s
fine! We are happy to make the facilities available. Please, for 2005, give us an early Chrissie present and
come early each and every week.
SAIL Star
The SAIL Star is back for 2005! The SAIL Star is written by Sudanese SAILors for all SAILors. This year,
for the first time, the SAIL Star has its own editor, Lauren, editor in chief! The SAIL Star will be coming out
every five weeks but for this to happen, we need your help!
The SAIL Star relies on contributions from the Sudanese SAILors. It features stories, pictures and completed
SAIL Star worksheets. These worksheets are especially designed for the SAIL Star as they convert readily
from worksheet into article. Please find them on the Tutor Resources section of the website.
The purpose of the SAIL Star is two-fold. Firstly, it offers reward and recognition for good work. Secondly, it
provides some simple reading and activity material for all SAILors on Saturdays.
After its immense success in its first year, 2003, we call on all SAILors to keep the SAIL Star in mind and to
submit pieces for publication to the big SAIL Star submission box in the library! Your help will be
appreciated to make the SAIL stars shine in the SAIL Star!
Week 5 dates 2005
The week 5 dates for 2005 are set. The first Tutor Talk session will be on 9 April at the usual time of
12:30pm. Please mark it in your diary as we have a strong line up of guest speakers to grill with SAIL
questions.
The Week 5 dates for the rest of the year and the topics for each session are in a table at the end of this
newsletter. We encourage all SAILors to attend as many as possible. They are the ideal way for us to
help you help your student/s!
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VCE Centre
SAIL Xtend 2005
SAIL Xtend, the activities which happen after lunch, kick off with bang on 12 March and will continue
throughout 2005. Under the steady steerage of Caitlin (not to be confused with Cait), SAIL Xtend will be
involving many SAILors of primary and secondary school ages. SAIL Xtend kicks off this Saturday (March
12) at 12:30 with a fantastic program that includes cooking, mural painting, creative writing and jewellery
making.
It will involve around fifty SAIL students ranging from eight-year-olds to teenagers. Drivers, please do not
take your students home without first checking with Caitlin, Cait or Will to see if they are participating
in Xtend.
We are also seeking tutors who are interested in helping to run Xtend activities. If you can hang around until
1:30pm on any Saturday, your presence will be invaluable. (Plus you’ll get to do some fun activities!) If you
are interested in getting involved please let email: caitlinfnunn@hotmail.com.
SAIL SOCIAL 2005!!!
Announcing the inaugural SAIL Social for 2005!
When:
Where:
Friday March 18 from 7pm
The Retreat Hotel
Corner of Sydney Rd and Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick
Come on down and meet your fellow tutors outside of the Saturday morning madness!!!
Esso Day of Caring
On March 9, as has occurred for three years, the staff of Exxon Mobil will attend SAIL to give it the
Backyard Blitz-like makeover!
Saturday Co-ordinators
It is with open arms that we welcome two people back for 2005 in their role as Saturday Co-ordinators.
Andrew and Caitlin (also doing Xtend) have the sole responsibility of being new reference points for
questions, queries, quibbles and concerns from all SAILors on a Saturday. Please make use of them as a
reference point, especially if there is something they can assist with.
WholeSAIL news
Excursion options
SAIL About is shaping up to big things already for 2005. Below are a list of events free for SAILors. If
you are interested in taking your SAIL buddies to any event, please email us to reserve a place. Please
note that all SAIL About excursion travel costs are paid by SAIL and more than one SAIL volunteer
must attend each event.
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1. Ballet at the Bowl, Friday 11 March 2005, 8pm @ Myer Music Bowl
Ever wanted to be a ballerina? That’s nice. What about watch one? Well you can! This Friday there is a
free ballet bonanza at the Myer Music Bowl. If you are wanting to take some SAILors, please let us
know ASAP so the necessary paperwork can be completed.
2. AFL's Harmony Day Wizard Cup, 12 March 2005 @ Telstra Dome.
For kids aged 8-9 and any SAILor supervisors, we have an offer for free tickets to the football this Saturday!
The game will be played at Tesltra Dome and during half time the SAILors will be taken onto the ground for
half time activities. If you are interested in taking part, please let us know and then contact Trevor Robertson
at Football Victoria, 8663 3015, 0418 321 967, trevorr@footballvic.com.au . This is a great opportunity for
kids to experience the atmosphere of footy in Melbourne.
3. Black Harmony Gathering, 20 March 2005 2pm - 6pm @ The Fairfield Amphitheatre,
Heidelberg Rd Fairfield.
Multicultural Arts Victoria present a showcase of Australian Indigenous musicians alongside their
brothers and sisters from newly arrived African communities of Congo, West Africa, North and South
Sudan. Performers include our very own Dambai dancers alongside Koori Youth Will Shake Spears,
Monica Weightman, Nadia Elbana, Sudan Azza, Ajak Kwai and Koori Band. If you intend to join the
SAIL group, please let us know by email to sail@africanoz.com. For more details about the day please
visit www.multiculturalarts.com.au.
4. Variety Functions
The Variety Children’s Charity have kindly made their excursions open to all SAILors for 2005. The
following events are coming up and require bookings. If you would like to take a SAILor, please let us know
so we can reserve a place.
How about sailing the old way? SAILors can sail away on Wednesday, 23 March 2005 with the Sandringham
Yacht Club.
Circus Oz are hosting a show free for SAILors on 24 June 2005 at Birrarung Marr. If you are able to collect a
carload of youngsters, we will gladly reserve you a ticket.
Eagles fly and so do bulldogs. SAILors can head to the footy to see the Weagles and the Western Bulldogs on
6 August 2005. If you would like to join the mottly crew for this one, let us know.
5. Ajak Kwai, Saturday, 23 April, 2005 from 8.15 pm @ Boite World Music Cafe, 1 Mark
Street, North Fitzroy
Ajak Kwai from the Dinka people of Southern Sudan is currently on a national Australian tour. Her
singing shares songs of freedom, peace, love, marriage and cows (the source of Dinka life!) that will “,
according to the promo materials, “uplift and inspire”.
Altona
It is with a great pleasure that we announce the pending launch of SAIL’s third home, Altona! Under the
steady guidance of SAIL Footscray tutors, Wayn Wong and Catherine Foreman, Altona will be kicking
off on 28 May 2005. In time, it is hoped that Altona SAIL will take some of the pressure on space from
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Footscray. If any present SAILor is interested in joining the pioneering group, please let Wayn and
Catherine know on sailaltona@africanoz.com.
Arabic
Want to learn Juba Arabic, the Arabic spoken in Sudan? A small group of SAILors are organising and
mid-week beginners Arabic class for SAILors only. The classes will run every week for 6 months at the
University of Melbourne Law School on Thursdays after work hours. Each class will cost $10 with
the money going solely to the Sudanese tutor. If you are interested, please email Matthew at
sail@africanoz.com.
Sudan Mirror
The Sudan Mirror is the only independent source of news produced in Sudan. Access to it in Australia
provides a vital link for the Diaspora members at SAIL with the folks back home. SAIL’s affiliate, the
Sudanese Online Research Association, is now glad to welcome the Sudan Mirror to Australia.
The Sudan Mirror will be available from SAIL campuses each fortnight. Purchase is by subscription
only. For collection at SAIL, the grand cost for six months is $18! Please find the order form attached.
Globalising SAIL
Following Matthew’s sabbatical to Kenya and Sudan in 2004, SAIL is now linked in with an
international network of organisations working for a peaceful future for Sudan.
Among them is the link with the New York-based organisation, FilmAid International. FilmAid operates
in refugee camps across the world providing mental relief through the medium of film from the banal
lifestyle of the camps.
Among its projects, FilmAid is co-ordinating a global exchange of video letters – pen pals for the 21st
Century! During 2005, a group of SAILors will be exchanging video-taped messages with Sudanese
refugee children at the Kakuma refugee camp in the north Kenyan desert. We will keep you posted as it
develops and let you know when the latest delivery of a message comes through.
The SAIL Star is also now partnered with the Peace Education Program of the UN’s refugee agency,
UNHCR. In all editions of the SAIL Star for 2005, you will see submissions on the subject of peace in
Sudan from refugees across East African who participates in the Peace Education Program. By the same
token, writing on peace by SAILors will be regularly featured in the UN’s publication, Peacemaker
magazine.
It is hoped that these links will bring home to Sudanese SAILors that they are part of a global community
committed to the idea of sustainable peace in Africa’s largest nation.
Matthew’s movements
For the record and for those confused (or distraught) that Matthew is sometimes there and sometimes not,
Matthew will be the overseeing co-ordinator for wholeSAIL operations for 2005. This means he will be
at Footscray every week 2 and 5 and Dandenong for the other weeks. From June, Matthew will have one
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week per cycle at Altona and two at the other two campuses. For those missing him desperately in the
meantime, there are two options; email him at sail@africanoz.com or seek counselling. 
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in association with
The Sudan Mirror, Sudan’s only independent source of news, is now
available in Australia.
The Sudanese Online Research Association (SORA) is proud to announce the arrival of the Sudan
Mirror to Australia. The Sudan Mirror is a newspaper written by Sudanese people about Sudanese
issues for Sudan’s future. Australia now joins Sudan, Kenya and Uganda on the short list of countries
that have access to uncensored news coverage of Sudan’s struggles and successes.
When?
Every fortnight
Where?
By post to your door; or
at the SAIL Program campuses
(May Street, Footscray, Langhorne Street, Dandenong, Bent Street, Altona)
How much?
6 month subscription
(post $30, collection at SAIL campuses $18)
12 month subscription
(post $60, collection at SAIL campuses $35)
Send this form with cash or cheque:
Sudanese Online Research Association,
56 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, 3122,
Victoria, Australia
Where does the money go?
SORA, the Australian distributor of the Sudan Mirror, is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization. The cover price of
the Sudan Mirror is 65c*. Per copy postage from East Africa is 80c*. Postage within Australia is $1. No profits are
made from the sale of the Sudan Mirror and all money for the production and postage of the paper is sent back to the
Sudan Mirror in Kenya and Sudan. For more information, visit http://SORA.akm.net.au.
NAME:
Subscription: [ ] 6 month [ ] 12 month
Collection
[ ] by post [ ] SAIL Dandenong [ ]SAIL Footscray [ ] SAIL Altona
POSTAL ADDRESS:
Please make cheques payable to the “SAIL Program” with whom SORA shares a bank account.
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Community Talk
Tutor Talk - Junior
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Tutor Talk - SAIL
Tutor Talk – Senior
Running a family
Junior Meeting
Managing behaviour
CELL Session
Family law, child protection
and road rules
Free Kindergarten Association
(FKA)
Learning problems & reading
issues
Cross cultural training &
challenges on arrival incl. re
education system differences
16 April – D
14 May – F
21 May – D
Anna Grace Hopkins &
Matthew Albert
18 June – F
Diet and dental hygiene
25 June – D
Dental hygienist
WORLD
REFUGEE DAY
23 July – F
30 July – D
27 August – F
Job hunting tips and
apprenticeships
Refugee Experience – The
Sudanese story incl. Current
news
Refugee Experience – The
Sudanese story incl. Current
news
Refugee Experience – The
Sudanese story incl. Current
news
Behaviour and discipline
Bullying
Starting ABC – bare basics of
ESL teaching
SAIL
Turns
Four
!!!
3 September – D
1 October – F
Finance management
Sudanese parenting explained
Overcoming trauma
Overcoming trauma
Accessing services
Art and craft
Activities for learning
AMES role - the resettlement
English learning story
8 October – D
5 November – F
12 November – D
10 December – F
17 December - D
SPECIAL
BONANZA!
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TBA
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