OUR DIVERSITY CELEBRATING
M ore than 1,000 Adelaideans took to the streets in October to stand up for a fairer, more welcoming Australia. Walk Together 2016 - Welcome to Australia’s annual celebration of Australia’s diversity - saw people of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities come together to call on our national leaders to fight for multiculturalism. Founded in 2010, Welcome to Australia is an Adelaide- based movement that in recent years has grown to become a national expression of the welcoming, fair and compassionate society that so many of us want to build. Although, as Welcome to Australia’s CEO, Mohammad Al-Khafaji mentioned during his address, this years’ iteration of the event saw the walk go global for the first time. “Today Walk Together is happening across 25 Australian cities and regional centres, and for the first time it’s happening internationally in Anchorage, Alaska,” said Al- Khafaji. “It’s a simple idea that was started here in Adelaide and one that’s gone international because people like you said that we want to change the conversation to something better.”
At AnglicareSA we’re proud supporters of Welcome to Australia and deeply committed to being part of the solution when it comes to looking after new arrivals to South Australia. AnglicareSA Chief Executive Officer The Reverend Peter Sandeman says AnglicareSA’s Refugee Housing Service helps to house and re-settle more than 1,000 newly-arrived humanitarian refugees into the state each year. “We provide new arrivals with food, orientation to their housing and help them get familiar with the local area,” the Rev’d Sandeman said. “Ultimately we help prepare new arrivals to live safely, integrate into the community and then transition out of AnglicareSA housing into the 'real world' of public or community housing or private rental homes.” The Adelaide event featured a host of other dignitaries including the South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill; Leader of the South Australian Opposition, Steven Marshall; and even the Federal Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Australia, Tony Burke.
The Supporter Summer 2016 — page 3
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