New Yarra Reporter Workshops are Starting Mid-July
Every Wednesday and Thursday night from 6:00-8:0pm; starting on the 13th and 14th of July, Yarra reporter will be running training workshops on Civic Journalism and photogphay.
Atherton garden residents were sent into a disordered frenzy when the Fire Alarm Control Panels Systems that detects fires was automatically set itself off on Thursday night at 9:15pm.
The City of Yarra have generously funded yarraReporter to create a projection and art installation at Atherton Gardens for the 2011 Gertrude Street Projection Festival, which will run in July next year.
The Atherton Gardens $43 million redevelopment was officially launched on the 20th of October 2010, after many years of planning. The development is due for completion by September 2012, and will include 152 new homes at Atherton Gardens, a new childcare centre, office and retail space and 127 car spaces.
Batoul Ahmed is a resident of Atherton Gardens, and has trained with yarraReporter and Language Factory. She spoke to Mia Paramashinta about her new position as a Community Development worker.
My name is Anna Tuong. This my story of escape from Vietnam. I was born in Vietnam (South Saigon ). I am from an educated, middle class family. I am one of 11 children and I am in the middle . When I was 17 I started studying dental nursing and I worked for my father who is a dentist.
Australian residents, who came here as refugees or asylum seekers, that have good English and local qualifications have no guarantee for employment. In fact, often it is not easy to gain permanent employment that matches their professional skills.
yarraReporter is a training program giving public housing estate residents in the City of Yarra the skills and means to publish stories that matter to them and their community.
This civic journalism project is an initiative of Infoxchange Australia to build skills, capacity, social contribution and leadership amongst residents by modelling cooperative social change in community activities, local news gathering, editing, writing, interviewing and internet-broadcasting.
The work seen on this website is a combination of the trained yarraReporters, journalists and the University students that help facilitate the courses and is updated regularly. If you would like to get involved, please contact us.
yarraReporter Staff
yarraReporters
Boy Louade
Majak Akot
Connie Tahir
Saad Amusawi
Karen Minniewn
Anna Tuong
Mia Paramashinta Michael Hackett
Shelley Thompson
Rachael Akibib
Shirley Danford
Akech Yangdit
Facilitators
Patrick Anderson
Anya Trybala
Tegan Caffrey Kop
Kealey Nutt
Kat Moore
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