by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 28, 2016 | News, Stories
With the loss of one of our volunteer coordinators, who has headed overseas for a long term volunteer placement, we have only had one home dinner in the last part of 2016. With over 300 people now registered to attend or host a Welcome Dinner in WA we are struggling...
by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 28, 2016 | News, Stories
In a week of thunderstorms and rain we had an outdoors community dinner at Curtin University. Whilst it was freezing cold, the universe smiled on us and kept the rain away. A large range of people came to the dinner which is what the Welcome Dinner Project is all...
by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 28, 2016 | News, Stories
To celebrate Refugee Week this year we organised the first Welcome Dinner Project Cooking Class, a cooking class taught by three people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. These wonderful home cooks taught the participants how to cook Tamil chicken curry, Pakistani...
by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 28, 2016 | News, Stories
In August we trained a great group of ten people committed to providing a welcome environment to newly arrived people in Bunbury and the South West. The following week we had a lovely community dinner to launch the Project. About forty people came along and had a...
by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 23, 2016 | News, Stories
We’re really excited to share that more than 50 Welcome Dinners were hosted across the country this year, connecting approximately 1,500 newly arrived and established Australians. Majority of the dinners were hosted in local hosts’ homes, with a handful of...
by Welcome Dinner Project | Dec 22, 2016 | Stories
Throughout the year we noticed that registrations for The Welcome Dinner Project were increasing in Geelong, a vibrant city 75kms south-west of Melbourne. Many generous people were offering to host dinners too! So we put the call-out to those who have registered to...
