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Cecile Has Lots to Smile About!
At the end of 2009 13 year old Cecile Sanougah-Amoussou (pictured)
and Jim Derbyshire, collaborated to produce this colourful poster for a 2010 Harmony Day Poster Competition, a project of the Alfred Dreyfus Unit of B’nai B’rith NSW.

Cecile has been announced as a regional winner and has been invited to attend
Parliament House for an award ceremony in March!
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SCARF Holiday Fun
We were kept busy during the holidays with some major outings for young people and adults.
Twelve lucky SCARF community members were invited to the Hawks game on New Year’s Eve. It was a fun night, made all the happier by the Hawks win over Adealide 93 to 88 … the excitement and enthusiasm of the Hawks fans was a real eye-opener!

Twenty children 10-14 years travelled to the Belvoir St Theatre to see the powerful production of The Book of Everything, a stage play adapted from the novel by acclaimed Dutch children’s author Guus Kuijer …. . A great day was had by all!

On 16 January 22 very excited little girls attended the English National Ballet’s performance of Angelina Ballerina. The sets and costumes, the music and dancing had everyone wide-eyed.

After the performance they were allowed to stay back and have 10 minutes on stage … living out the fantasy of being ballerinas
themselves … what fun!

Five young people with an interest in music were fascinated to attend the Illawarra Folk Festival Music School. The Folk Festival awarded two scholarships, which enabled John Say and Esther Esther to experience music styles from all over the world. All five had great fun participating in the penny whistle workshop!
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Discovering Dapto Community Garden
The Dapto Community Garden project has opened up excellent oportunities for community members to get their hands dirty ... doing something that they feel very connected to ie growing their own food ... many coming from rural backgrounds. SCARF has sponsored 2 1/2 plots at the garden and it seems our community members are really setting an example to other plot holders!
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Burmese Community Settling Happily in Wollongong
Each year the Illawarra Folk Festival opens with a concert supporting local charities. This year SCARF was one of two local charities being supported and it was very fitting that the concert opened with a performance by the Wollongong Burmese Dance Troupe.

The performance was colourful, musical and exciting, telling the story of their traditional agricultural background. If you missed this event, the Dance Troupe hopes to have opportunities to share their culture through such performances at various local festivals in coming months.

Congratulations to Maung De Wa Tui Muk who proudly received his Australian Citizenship Certificate from Dick Smith and David Farmer at the ceremony held at St Mary Star of the Sea on the afternoon of 26 January.

De Wa was one of 87 candidates on the day. Other SCARF friends participating on the day included members of the George & Kamara familles and Dennis Daniels.

De Wa is the first of our local Burmese community to achieve citizenship status. We know that many of the Burmese community are hoping to follow De Wa's example in the coming year.
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To see stories and photos of past activities and events go to Archived Articles [here]
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