




Learning English can help you meet other people, connect with your community and learn more about living in Australia. Learning English can also help you get ready for a job or training.
Working together, we’ll find you the right job. We are Australia’s largest specialist provider working with people from all multicultural backgrounds.
We can provide new staff for your business. If you would like to list a job vacancy or you need additional staff with specific skills, we can help.
We make volunteering easy so that you can help newly arrived refugees and migrants make the most of their new life in Victoria.
We are Australia’s largest provider of humanitarian settlement, education, training and employment services for refugees and newly arrived migrants. We link our services together to create better outcomes for our clients, which helps us achieve our mission of “Full participation for all in a cohesive and diverse society.”
19-05-2012
Photo: Volunteer Tutor Dawn Lees (left) meets with student Elizabeth Duach The Volunteer English Tutor Program, coordinated by Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) and GippsTAFE, provides free training and support to volunteer tutors who in turn provide invaluable assistance to migrants wh
19-05-2012
KEILOR East’s Al Nakonesky says he gets a lot of personal satisfaction from volunteering. Mr Nakonesky, 74, has spent 16 years giving up his time for community groups.
19-05-2012
INVERBRACKIE asylum seekers are the first to trial a free online course to give migrants basic skills to work in mining and resources.
17-05-2012
The importance of migrants being able to speak English has been highlighted by a survey which shows level of ability affects migrants' earning power. The Longitudinal Immigration Survey followed the employment experiences of over 5000 migrants in their first three years after gaining permanent resi
17-05-2012
SHORTFALLS in serving the needs of Gippsland's growing migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker community is presently a top local priority for the Department of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship.
16-05-2012
On Thursday May 10, Diversitat launched its Walk This Way: Pedestrian Safety for New Arrivals DVD. Diversitat received funding from Transport Accident Commission early in 2012 to produce a DVD to help new arrivals navigate Australian roads.
14-05-2012
Last weekend the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria and Welcome to Australia hosted migrants and refugees for a Welcome Party at an Australian family home.
13-05-2012
A SIMPLE cuppa and chat is making the world of difference to Vietnamese immigrant Tran Thi Thu Ha. Each week, Ha, as she is known, looks forward to a visit from Jeanette Giles so they can swap stories about their families, cooking, shopping and what they did on the weekend.
11-05-2012
This book has recently been added to the Brotherhood of St Laurence library collection Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement.
11-05-2012
It was 1980 and I was barely eight years old, when the Iraqi government sent my family to Iran. I was born in Iraq, but because of an Iranian great grandfather, Saddam Hussein’s regime deemed us to not be Iraqi.
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A three-year study of new arrivals who have attended AMES language programs found that 95 per cent of refugee and migrant survey respondents indicated an intention to work in Australia and almost all would study further to enhance their employment prospects. Click here to read a full copy of the research entitled 'Words to Work' |
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