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2004 | Projects suppported 01 July 2003 to 30 June 2004
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | ARTside-in! AGNSW (Stages 1, 2 & 3)
Following the success of AGNSW’s 2003 pilot, the AGNSW launched ARTside-in!, an outreach program designed by the Public Programs Department of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). The program targets Years 10, 11 and 12 secondary visual arts students that have limited opportunity to access the Gallery’s collection, exhibitions, programs and resources. The project enables these students who are disadvantaged by geographic and economic factors, to participate in the culture of the Gallery and for the Gallery to experience and learn from the students in their school environment. Participating schools sponsored by The Caledonia Foundation in 2004 were Airds High School, Dulwich High School, Illawarra Sports High School & Kogarah High School.
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AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S MUSIC FOUNDATION | La Perouse District Children’s Orchestra & Choir
The ACMF believes that it is the social right of every child to learn and participate in music as part of their educational development. La Perouse is a socio-economically deprived area with a large indigenous community. Over the last three decades there has been an increase in social problems in the area including solvent abuse and youth crime. Music is a pro-social stimulant for youth and can work as prevention to social problems facing the young of today. The Caledonia Foundation contributed to the La Perouse program which will give Students from 3 local schools the opportunity to be part of a united choir and orchestra.
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AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | Tasmanian West Coast Regional Project 2004
The West Coast Road Show officially took off in August 2004 and aimed to increase Tasmania’s local resources, as well as to provide a much-needed service to the marginalized young people of the West Coast towns of Rosebery, Zeehan, Queenstown and Strahan. It followed on from Big hART’s previous work and has been developed in consultation with Tasmanian companies is theatre ltd and West Coast Community Health (WCH&CS). Young people from these geographically isolated towns gathered together to participate in a workshop session three days a week leading towards a performance from August to October 2004. The Caledonia Foundation contributed to this project in 2004.
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THE AUSTRALIAN OUTWARD DEVELOPMENT FUND | Regional Community Partnership – Moree District
OBA’s educational programs focus on real life skills, such as self-confidence; personal leadership; time management; social competence and emotional control. The Moree Community Partnership joins the Moree community with Outward Bound Australia and The Caledonia Foundation. The partnership seeks to engage a significant proportion of Year 9 (15-16 year old) Moree students in positive, challenging, personal development experiences through an Outward Bound course. The schools sponsored by The Caledonia Foundation were Moree Secondary College & St Philomenas Secondary College, Moree.
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ASYLUM SEEKERS CENTRE (INC) | Support for Asylum Seeker Families
Children are the innocent victims of the refugee process. Through the Asylum Seekers Centre (Inc), The Caledonia Foundation provided support to asylum seeker families which enabled the purchase of uniforms, textbooks and financial assistance for school excursions, vaccinations and pharmacy assistance for their children.
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THE BELL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | Shakespeare In Action
The Caledonia Foundation continued its support into 2004, as part of a three year commitment to Bell Shakespeare’s “Shakespeare in Action” program. This program has targeted five of the toughest and underprivileged schools in outer Sydney. To date, the program appears to have had an extremely positive effect on many students. “Shakespeare” is being used to great effect in enabling the students to express such emotions as fear, anger, love and hate – emotions so often bottled up inside them.
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EDUCATION FOUNDATION | Children’s Learning Fund
The Education Foundation’s “Children’s Learning Fund” has given The Caledonia Foundation an opportunity to recognize a series of teachers, in marginalized schools in Victoria, who have created special programs for the benefit of the students’ education. This is the second year The Caledonia Foundation in 2004 supported 4 projects.
Earn & Learn Power Packages | Mohyu Primary School
Power Packages-Earn & Learn is a hands-on, Real Life program that engages 100% of students based around the establishment of a "mini Australian Community" within the classroom and or school environs. Within this community, the children earn wages, pay taxes and bills, discover negative gearing, superannuation, start businesses, encounter social justice and generally engage in all those budgeting , buying and banking exercises they will be using in the future. They employ social strategies and use various intelligences to problem solve and create.
EDUCATION FOUNDATION | Kaniva Chicks
Kaniva Chicks is a program designed to give students relevant education via the operation of a “real” business. The core learning areas were to be taught while turning a local raw material, chick peas, into an alternative snack food. Outcomes are to make education more meaningful to students best suited to learning in a hands on fashion, increase motivation in students and thus have a positive impact on the ‘absentee’ rates of the involved students and the school’s ability to retain students at school, rather than students moving away from their community to boarding school.
EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Children’s Learning Fund) | EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Children’s Learning Fund) Primary Science – (Sandringham Secondary College)
Primary Science brings Science to primary school students particularly during their transition from grade 6 into year 7. It develops closer relationships between Primary and Secondary educators. Students develop important scientific skills such as observations, manipulating real Science apparatus and analyzing results.
EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Children’s Learning Fund) | Vine to Wine – The Sequel (Ovens College)
Ovens College from Vine to Wine - The Sequel: Ovens College further developed the highly successful primary school curriculum project (trialed at Myrrhee Primary School with local wine makers) by engaging the students in the operational activities of a wine making industry (eg stomp grapes, make grape juice, test grape quality, design wine labels). Students also developed more advance scientific, testing and data analysis skills, managing the budgeting and marketing of the wine & undertaking profit and loss analyses.
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EXODUS FOUNDATION | The Exodus Tutorial Centre - Ashfield
The Exodus Foundation funds the operation of the Tutorial Centre, staffed by Professor Wheldall’s Special Education team and by specially selected personnel from Exodus’ pool of skilled volunteers. The key objective of the Tutorial Centre is to address the needs of children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds who are at risk of alienation from the school system because of severe problems with reading and related skills. The Centre offers an intensive remedial reading program known as “Schoolwise” which aims to get students back into the school system again within a 12 month period. The Caledonia Foundation supported this Centre in 2004.
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INSPIRE FOUNDATION | Sponsorship of 2 Beanbag Centres
Inspire’s Beanbag Net Centre initiative is a nationally recognized, award-winning program which bridges the digital divide for young people in Australia’s most underserved communities, creating social, educational and employment opportunities that other young people take for granted. The Caledonia Foundation supported the Centres at Woden, Canberra & Casuarina in Darwin.
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INSTITUTE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION | Scholarships for IEC Final Year Honours Students
The Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Sydney specializes in Early Childhood teacher education. The Institute also provides research training to its highest-achieving undergraduate students and to higher degree students in its Masters and PhD programs. The Caledonia Foundation scholarships enabled 2 final Year Honours Students, from disadvantaged backgrounds, to complete their Honours degrees.
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THE LEUKAEMIA FOUNDATION | Special Needs Education Fund
The Special Needs Youth Education Fund was introduced by the Leukaemia Foundation in June 2004 to address the special needs of young people living with blood and bone marrow cancers. The Caledonia Foundation in conjunction with Leukaemia Foundation provided funds to address the unique needs of youth affected by these diseases.
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MATILDA ROSE EARLY INTERVENTION CENTRE | Part-time Teachers Aid
The Matilda Rose Early Intervention Centre (MREIC) was established in January 2001, to offer a program to meet the needs of profoundly deaf children, with additional disabilities. The Centre caters for pre-school children, and also offers a transition program to the appropriate educational placement. MREIC is a joint venture between the Carnegie Foundation and the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre (SCIC).
The Caledonia Foundation continued its grant into 2004 which enabled MREIC to employ a Teachers Aid to assist with the early education & development of hearing & physically impaired children who attend the Centre.
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THE MIRABEL FOUNDATION | Mirabel Educational Enhancement Program
The Mirabel Foundation supports children who have typically been abandoned by their parents or their parents have died (in both instances commonly drug related). The grant from The Caledonia Foundation has contributed to a range of schooling and educational costs to 14 children in NSW, many of them being for a twelve month period. This has not only alleviated the financial pressure to many of these families but also improved the self esteem and confidence of the children by a marked improvement in their academic outcomes and subsequent stability at school.
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OASIS | Computer Technology Centre
The Caledonia Foundation continued its support in 2005 as part of a 3-year grant towards the development and training of disadvantaged young adolescents able to attend the OASIS' Youth Support Network Computer Technology Centre @ Surry Hills. The Centre focuses on training for video production & editing; repair, upgrading & recycling of computers; web site & database creation; input & management of SOS Salvo's on-line auction site.
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STARLIGHT CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION | Starlight Fun Centres
The Starlight Fun Centre project is designed to deliver entertainment distraction to a child’s hospital bedside via e-inclusion and leading edge technology. Starlight’s goal is to provide one Starlight Fun Centre for every ten paediatric beds in Australia. Delivering this program to children in remote and regional hospitals is a priority. The Caledonia Foundation sponsored 6 Fun Centres which were installed at Gove, NT, Manning River Base Hospital, NSW, Condobolin Hospital, NSW, Echuca Regional Health Hospital, VIC, Western District Health Service, Hamilton VIC, South West Healthcare, Warnambool, VIC.
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THE SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY | STC Access Program
Over the past 2 years, the Sydney Theatre Company, with the support of The Caledonia Foundation, has been able to offer students from disadvantaged schools the opportunity to attend educational productions. This program allows 30 students from three schools to attend several diverse productions across each year. Participating schools for 2004 were Alexandra Park Community College, Granville South High School and Doonside High School.
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TECHNICAL AID TO THE DISABLED | Hold My Hand – Computer Loan Services
TAD’s “Hold My Hand” project focuses on early intervention to assist the many children who face the challenges of developmental delays and/or developmental disabilities associated with cerebral palsy, down syndrome, sensory impairments, and autism. TAD NSW has three significant areas of services. The Caledonia Foundation supported the Computer Loan Service which provides people with disabilities with computer capabilities, utilizing the skills of volunteers and computer professionals - 14 children, aged 5 to 12 years were the recipients of the Foundation’s grant.
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WINGECARRIBEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | Creating Child Friendly Play Spaces for Children & their Young Parents
WCF through its Wingecarribee Family Support programs assists disadvantaged young parents who mainly live in rented premises, away from transport routes and are too young or too poor to drive. Some of the young parents have lost accommodation for not “looking after the place”. 88% of Playspace participants are coping with issues such as isolation; mental health; sole parenting; separation in past year; multiple moves in past year; homelessness; child protection past or present; state ward; drug & alcohol; domestic violence. The Caledonia Foundation provided funding to employ a part-time Project Worker with the aim of improving and developing appropriate safe play areas for children from disadvantaged backgrounds through the Wingecarribee Family Support Service's Young Parents Project.
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