Taste of Ethiopia Many years ago when Sara’s mother was teaching her to cook, she would have never imagined she would be one day introducing many Wollongong residents to Ethiopian cuisine. Sara has long dreamed of starting her own food stall and in 2019, that dream came to fruition. Throughout...
As an organisation, SCARF is increasingly focusing on providing employment support to community members from refugee backgrounds. One of the ways we are doing this is through local organisations who provide work experience, training or employment to former refugees. As part of this increased focus employment support, SCARF worked with...
The friendship between Raghad and Lioba is proof that there is one language that is universal. Laughter. The pair celebrated two years of friendship in August, and have shared many experiences, laughs and desserts along the way. They met through the Befriending program run by SCARF, which matches local volunteers...
A huge congratulations goes to the SCARF Homework Help volunteer team on winning the 2019 NSW Volunteer Team of the Year in the Illawarra at the The Centre for Volunteering awards ceremony on Friday 6 September. The 30-member team helps up to 70 students per year from a refugee background with tutoring and homework...
This month we witnessed some incredible SCARF community members participate in training that will see them become trained to respond in the event of an emergency such as flood, fire, storm or other hazardous event. SCARF is working together with the NSW State Emergency Services (SES) to establish the first...
We asked some of the SCARF program coordinators to reflect on their experiences of working with SCARF community members and volunteers. Andrew Crichton, the coordinator of Homework Help, spends his Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the Wollongong Library with a bunch of volunteers and students in the SCARF community from...
A few weeks ago, we received a message from a community member, Jasmin, asking whether we were interested in a gift of a nice steel string guitar (pictured). We wondered what had motivated such a generous and thoughtful gift, and put the question to Jasmin. The following response was given:”Sako...
PRINCESS “I’m 19 and I just graduated from year 12 at Illawarra Christian School. I’m currently studying at the UOW College to get into nursing next year. I came to Australia with uncle Dennis in 2006, with my brother Kadu, and then later on my aunty Annie (pictured below) joined...
For those that were at the Refugee Week evening at the Wollongong Town Hall on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, you will be familiar with some of these faces – Elie, Des & Celeste from the Let’s Lead program. Let’s Lead is a youth leadership program run in partnership with Cameron...
Commencing this Sunday, 17th of June is Refugee Week. To celebrate the diversity and common humanity of all people, we have been interviewing and photographing individuals from a range of backgrounds and experiences in the Illawarra community in a collaborative storytelling project with Bear Hunt Photography called ‘The More You Know’....
