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HARDA (Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency of Australia) successfully run its ‘Swim, Survive and Socialise’ annual program in January 2018 . Harda started with 86 boys and girls enrolled, aged between 6 and 15 years old, larger than any previous swim program done by Harda. The main idea behind this program is to…
HARDA (Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency of Australia) successfully conducted an African Youth and CALD Soccer Tournament and Community Festival in 2016. The purpose of this event was to celebrate our cultural diversity and bring our diverse African and CALD communities together in order to showcase the benefits of cultural diversity, promoting social…
The Horn of Africa Relief and Development Agency of Australia (HARDA) in-conjunction with Auburn Sports Club is successfully implemented its 2016 Multicultural NSW Unity Grant African and CALD Youth Mentoring Program in the Western and South-Western Sydney region. A major barrier for newly arrived refugees, migrant and CALD youth prior to the successful implementation of…
HARDA has just completed another successful year of the Swim, Survive and Socialise Program. This project has been going for the past 5 years and this year we had approximately 70 African-Australian children participate in the two week intensive swimming and safety program. HARDA would like to thank everyone who helped in teaching these children…
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Nice to see the ASTA being recognised for the work they have been doing helping many new Australians to learn to swim. HARDA is proud to have worked with ASTA in Seven Hills for many years with our annual Swim & Survive program for children, our recent advanced swimming program and numerous adult learn-to-swim sessions.
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Why adults are taking the 'terrifying' plunge
smh.com.au
Learning to swim is a rite of passage. It's also a way of surviving the Aussie summer's sometimes boozy rituals of surf, sand and river that resulted in the drowning deaths of more than 750 overseas-b...We kicked off our Connecting Communities program in conjunction with Kids Giving Back with a day of rock climbing in Villawood on Sunday. Kids from Sydney's eastern and western suburbs got to know each other as they overcame obstacles to reach new heights (literally!).
#KidsGivingBack #ConnectingCommunities #HARDA #eastmeetswest #rockclimbing
Guardian Australia
Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has used her maiden speech to give a powerful warning against the normalisation of racism.
Australia’s first female Muslim senator said she was unapologetically a "brown, Muslim, migrant, feminist woman". And to those who want her to "eff off back to where I came from," Faruqi said: "Sorry, not sorry. This is my home and I’m not going anywhere".