News Secondary
3 November 2022
As part of our Values-In-Action Program, twelve of our Year 8 and Year 9 Secondary students as well as ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ Captain Zainab Rida gave up their Sunday afternoon to volunteer at the "Carnival of Connections" event, organised and hosted by Whittlesea Interfaith Network (WIN).
The colourful event held at the Epping Memorial Hall on last Sunday, 29th October celebrated the diverse multicultural diversity and harmony within our City of Whittlesea. Attendees saw various performances ranging from cultural dance to musical instruments, including a drumming and guitar play by our very own ASC staff member Sameer Raza Khan) and had many beautiful traditional outfits on display by participating groups and audience members.
MC of the event was WIN President Gurinder Kaur, with VIP speeches delivered by the Hon. Lily D'Ambrosio MP (Minister for Energy, Solar Homes, the Environment and Climate Action), Viv Nguyen AM (Chairperson of the Victorian Multicultural Commission) and Kris Pavlidis (founder of WIN).
Our Secondary student volunteers helped with the setup and closure of the event, greeted guests upon their arrival, manned the food stall and also helped out at some of the stalls. We are very grateful for their collective service to the wider local community and thank them for their time and effort on the day. A special mention to our newly elected ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ Captain Zainab Rida who was the official events photographer of the day and did a fantastic job at it, as always! JazakAllah khairan!
The following Year 8 and 9 students each volunteered four hours of community service:
If you would like to join WIN and find out more about respectful interfaith dialogue, please email info@whittleseainterfaith.org.au
BBA (Hon)
Tanja joined the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ in 2010 in its second year and helped set-up and establish procedures for the administration office. She has been looking after the front school office and new enrolments, being the first point of contact for students and parents for many years. Her role has changed to the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ's Content & Relations Lead in mid-2019. Tanja is also one of the ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ's Sustainability Coordinators.
She was born in Germany where she attended both Primary and High School. Tanja holds an Honours Degree in Business Administration and spent a year in Malaysia as part of her studies where she also worked with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society.
Tanja migrated to Australia in 2006 and has been calling Australia her home ever since. She is an active member of the Al ¾ÞÈéÊÓƵ family, enjoys mountain biking, bush walking and photography and is engaged with interfaith, social justice, wildlife care and rehabilitation in her spare time.
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