Press clippings

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Articles and speeches written by the founding co-ordinators of the SAIL Program can be found here. Articles and reflections of other volunteers can be found here.

Felicity Dakin and Nik Tan Feb 2008
ABC Melbourne

"... initiating and developing the SAILAway program and through his volunteer service has certainly built stronger ties with the children and families in the Sudanese community."



Mosaic Magazine - SAIL Feature article, May 2005
By Yuko Tanaka

A new era in Australian immigration is beginning.  For the first time in our history a large number of people have been making their way to Australia from the African continent.
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The SAIL Program - The Melbourne Anglican Newspaper, June 2005
By Jane Still

In 2000, Melbourne University student Matthew Albert, and his friend Anna Grace Hopkins, answered a request on a noticeboard to help a Sudanese family who had recently arrived in Australia.
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George Negus Tonight - transcript

Various LOCAL PAPERS in Western Melbourne
By Stella Tzombanaki

A program that has assisted any southern Sudanese refugees from Melbourne’s west to learn English, has celebrated its first anniversary.
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CORK YOUR HOLE - Anna Wearne Trust Newsletter
By Kellee Nolan

YOUNG people are helping Melbourne’s Sudanese refugees to learn English, build confidence and make friends in an innovative new program.
Anna Grace Hopkins, 21 and Matthew Albert, 22, started the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning program (SAIL) one year ago in Footscray.
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Student Ambassador Leadership Program profile
by Rita Mannessis

When you walk into the May Street Church in Footscray on a weekend morning you’re instantly swept into the flurry of action.
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SAIL Assignment
by Irene Christopoulos

Under the large wooden cross, children climb over and under pews.  They jump from the stage and chase one another in and out of the room, past the tired looking organ that looks as if it has seen better days.
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Melbourne Festival 2002
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TALKING POINTE: the official
magazine of the Australian Ballet
by Lilla Ito

“We are very grateful to the subscriber who enabled us to offer the tickets to Adut. We are thrilled that Adut was able to experience such a special part of the cultural life of Melbourne. It's an opportunity that she would never have had otherwise and for which she and her tutor were truly grateful.”
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2003 Australia's Most Inspirational Woman
- Australian Women's Weekly
Feature on SAIL Co-founder, Anna Grace Hopkins

When 22-year-old arts student Anna Grace Hopkins was 19, she began teaching English to a small group of Sudanese children in Melbourne. The five children from the same family were aged between four and 18. They had fled to Australia with their mother from their war-ravaged homeland, where their father had been killed in battle.
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SAIL PROGRAM
By Billy Crossland
from the Footscray Mail

THE Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning Program [SAIL], has been helping Sudanese refugees learn English for two years.
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SAIL with the Flow
taken from Piggery Press

Every Saturday, at the May Street Hall in West Footscray, the Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) Program takes place.
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Getting here was the easy part…
by Chris Jackson
taken from RMIT Features Annual

The Sudanese Australian Integrated Learning (SAIL) program in Footscray invited CHRIS JACKSON to visit and see how ordinary Australians are helping new arrivals feel welcome.
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Setting SAIL for the Future
by Frances Lemon
from The Lion Magazine

In September 2000, when Old Wesley Collegians Anna Grace Hopkins (1999) and Matthew Albert (1998) were both aged nineteen and studying at The University of Melbourne, a call for help came from a Sudanese family needing to improve their English.
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First Impressions, the Australian Ballet and SAIL
from MX 17/9/2003

Amir Kiir and Diu Phadiet meet with Matthew Lawrence, Michael Carter and the cast of The Three Musketeers

The SAIL program is featured on these websites:

ABC stories

Anglican Church

World Volunteer Web

Infowest

Seek Volunteer

Refugees Australia

Go Volunteer

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