Field of intervention :Training and insertion
Association : Mission Australia
Project :
Localisation :Region of Victoria
Country :Australia
Supported Group :More 900 young people in difficulty
 
Objective

3 aims : create links between programs of Mission Australia, beneficiaries and the area covered by the association.

Project holder

Ginni Ryan, Communications Executive, Accor Asia Pacific.

Association

Mission Australia, an Australian association created in 1859, helps Australians who are in need. It is active in several areas of activity (housing, health, professional integration, etc.) to allow marginalised people to find pathways to a decent life. It supports approximately 300,000 Australians per year.

Project

Mission Australia undertakes countless actions in Australia to help young people in difficulty become integrated in society. It has developed several specific programmes in the region of Victoria:

  •  The “Arise Program”: “re-socialising” and “re-engaging” young people who suffered a shock from the most devastating bushfires in Australia (February 2009). 
  •  The “Charcoal Lane Program”: training unqualified aborigines and non-aborigines in service professions.
  •  The “Youth Connections Program”: accompanying and training young people who have dropped out of school.
  •  The “Ignition Program”: reducing road accidents among illiterate people by teaching them basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic) thanks to the highway code.
  •  The “Youth Beat Program”: welcoming young people on the street and helping them to become autonomous.

=> These programmes take place in a widespread geographic area, which makes the issues of transport and accessibility critical (the mini-bus circulates in a 200-km radius). To strengthen the actions of Mission Australia and allow the association to transport and welcome more young people in difficulty in its programmes, the Accor Foundation is supporting the NGO for the procurement of a 12-person mini-bus.

support €30,000 in 2011