23 Mar 2012
Nowruz Mubarak! AADO invites you and your friends to welcome in the Afghan New Year with a night filled with the sights and sounds of Afghanistan
Featuring:
Delicious Afghan Buffet
Traditional Afghan Music & Dancing
Afghan Bazaar & Henna Painting
Relaxing Afghan Tea Corner
Date: 23rd March 2012 Doors open 7pm until 11pm
Venue: The Arts House Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne, 3051
Cost: $40 Adults / $35 concession
Ticket package includes: Entertainment, Halal Buffet Dinner, Dessert & Tea Alcohol may be purchased separately
Follow this link to book your tickets: http://www.trybooking.com/20744
Limited tickets will be available at the door
Enquiries
Please call AADO on (03) 9279 1845 or email Bianca atbpilla@aado.org.au
All funds raised will go to AADO’s vocational and education training programs in Afghanistan
20 Nov 2011
AADO is excited to announce that its Executive Director, Dr. Nouria Salehi, has been awarded Victorian Senior Australian of the Year for 2012.
Dr Salehi was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year for her medical achievements and her voluntary efforts with AADO and numerous other organisations in Australia and in her homeland of Afghanistan. She is also a nuclear physicist and biophysicist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Her vital medical research includes the use of radioactive isotopes to detect and treat various forms of cancer to benefit many Australians.
Born in Afghanistan, Nouria completed her post-graduate studies and worked in France before moving to Australia in 1981. For 30 years, she has combined this demanding career with volunteer activities in both Australia and Afghanistan.
To view Dr Salehi's acceptance speech please follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCAzb9JFEKw
Dr Salehi now goes into the running to become the Senior Australian of the year for 2012. To follow the proceedings please tune into ABC program 'Australia Celebrates' Live from 8.30pm on the 25th January 2012.
http://www.abc.net.au/australiaday/awards/vic.htm
Other Media:
"Education is a Lifelong Passion' Australian Senior Publications:
http://www.thesenior.com.au/news.asp?publication=VIC&articletype=general%20news&ArticleID=2762
To read the article 'Never a dull senior moment for physicist, activist and restaurateur' written by John Mangan and published in Melbourne's Sunday Age
Download PDF (65kb).
17 Sep 2011
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25 Nov 2010
AADO's 2010 Solar Lights Appeal
In the outskirts of Kabul City, thousands of displaced Afghans and their families are living in tents, with no clean water, no proper sanitation and no electricity.
Ravaging attacks have pushed them to leave their villages and find shelter in Internal Displacement camps.
Children attend schools situated 4-5 km away from their camps and lack of light prevents them from studying at night.
Access to clean, affordable lighting is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty in the developing world. In the IDP camps, people do not have reliable or any access to electricity, spending any money they have on fossil fuel, mainly kerosene, for poor quality light. Kerosene is expensive and dangerous, contributing to respiratory conditions and climate change. Enabling the switch from kerosene to ultra-efficient solar lights will transform the lives and well-being of camp families.
New and innovative Australian designed solar lights will provide hundreds of families with safe and cost-effective light this Christmas.
YOUR GIFT OF Solar Light can contribute to AADO’s work in education
$30 will Light 1 tent
$150 will Light 5 tents
$300 will Light 10 tents
For further information on payment and the full appeal, please click here
Download PDF (144kb).
21 Sep 2010
AADO is excited to announce that it has been awarded a Meritorious Service to the Community Award from the Victorian Multicultural Commission for its work in supporting and advocating for Afghan refugees settling in the Melbourne area. Since 1993 the Afghan Support Group, driven by the efforts of Dr Nouria Salehi and her family, have been tirelessly dedicated to the resettlement of Afghan refugees in Melbourne and to introducing Afghan culture to the Australian community.
In recent years Homaira Mershedi has taken the reins of the Afghan Support Group, introducing new arrivals to Australian society and aiding them in every area needed to become settled in the Australian community. A photo of Homaira at the June Festival of Light celebration, and a copy of the certificate and medal can be viewed here
