Seasons Greetings Colleagues & Friends, have you received your Christmas joy from Kevin Rudd yet?
Welcome to our 29th newsletter. Quite a few new people have been added to our Newsletter list. Please let us know if you do not wish to receive it.
AUNTY MURIEL JOINS NCCP BOARD
At our AGM recently we welcomed Yaegl elder Aunty Muriel Burns onto our NCCP Board. Mark Bathgate as new Maclean Campus Manager, also came on board. They join existing members Chris Gulaptis (chair), Lynette McGuire, Sue Nash and Sue Hughes. Garry Williams from Muurrbay will also join us very soon. A truly wonderful group of people who do a fantastic job, (voluntarily!!!) supporting and promoting our non-profit organisation as we come into our 7th year for 2009!
Aunty Muriel and Bernie attended the NSW Quality Awards last November in Sydney for our Networking North Coast Indigenous Communities Project and Microsoft Community Affairs manager Paul Clark called by to see us (see pic). Although we did not win one of the major awards we received positive feedback by the visitors to our stand who all wanted to see our Ehub project expand as much as possible. Some of those visitors have been added to this Newsletter list. Please do contact us.
PARTNERSHIP WITH NCALP and NORTH COAST TAFE
North Coast Aboriginal Learning Partnerships (NCALP) from North Coast TAFE enjoyed a particularly successful year under the leadership of Tony Dreise. NCALP funded the establishment of the Ehubs at Bowraville and Nimbin and from which Goorie IT courses were delivered. The Bowraville/Macksville mob have completed the Cert 3 ready for Cert 4 in 2009. This is a fantastic achievement by our Indigenous students balancing study loads with part-time work and looking after their families.
NCALP in partnership with the IT Faculty of North Coast TAFE and NCCP makes these things possible! I’d like to thank our other partners there including Nambucca Shire Council, Bowraville LALC, Unkya LALC, New Careers for Aboriginal People, Ngurrala and Muurrbay Language Centre. It’s all about Partnerships! Make it your 2009 New Year’s resolution to create and nurture as many partnerships as you can. A lot of great people and valuable resources out there! Together we are able to do so much!
2NVR 105.9 NCCP live weekly radio show
Our live radio show running every Tuesday from 6-6:30pm in Nambucca is now recorded and being run several times per week. Community response has been fantastic and they have asked that we include a “tip of the week” every show. People call in asking for help with problems on their machines or they email us help@nccpi.org. It is a great vehicle for informing about NCCP’s services and promoting North Coast TAFE’s courses. The www.nccpi.org website is currently being rebuilt by our Diploma IT trainee Jeremy Billett to provide more services to the community because of the radio show. A big thank you to Macksville IT student and radio broadcaster Dallas Dent for making this happen. Some people who contacted us thought we were the group from the ABC!!!
Thank you to everyone at North Coast TAFE and in the community for supporting us. We have more Ehubs planned for 2009 and need you to help us obtain more computer hardware.
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your families,
Keep smiling