A new home for migrant support services in St Albans has been opened, just in time for Refugee Week.
The Migrant Resource Centre North West opened its new premises in Victoria Crescent last Thursday, celebrating 27 years of serving the region’s diverse multicultural communities.
As part of Refugee Week activities, Brimbank’s latest “harmony ambassadors” will be announced today at Sunshine’s Salvation Army hall.
The ambassadors work with council to promote diversity and increase residents’ participation in helping migrants in their new community.
Ambassadors will include St Albans Primary School community hub leader Hang Bui, who came to Australia by boat from Vietnam as a seven-year-old almost 40 years ago.
There are five St Albans schools with community hubs supported by Brimbank council, and it’s Hang Bui’s role to link parents with their school community and help “raise better children”.
“It’s a privilege to be an ambassador,” she said. “It makes me more aware of what harmony is.”
Former TV news presenter and Victorian Multicultural Commission chairwoman Helen Kapalos will be keynote speaker at the announcement of the Refugee Week ambassadors in Sunshine.
An art exhibition, Celebrating the Lives of Brimbank Refugees, will be unveiled.
