RECIPROCITY & WORKING TOGETHER
- These projects are premised on the idea that effective social capital can be built by different communities and culturally different individuals:
- working together towards a common goal.
- engage in acts of inter-cultural hospitality, service and support.
- Examples of this kind of reciprocity & hospitality include:
- Where groups help one another
- One ethnic community holds a festival and encourages/invites the mainstream community to participate. They may also provide specific hopsitality for invited groups. An example is the Sikh Games in Griffith where the Sikh community invite the wider Griffith community. They enlist volunteers fromt the Sikh community to cook and provide food for free as an act of intercultural hospitality.
- Or two community groups join together in volunteer services such as clean-up Australia day.
| East West Harmony | This project, now drawn to a close, aimed to increase public awareness of Living in Harmony values through a visible contribution to volunteer services by young people from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds. | view PDF |
| Greening Hume | The aim of the festival is to enhance community cohesion and help create a healthy, interesting and beautiful environment by bringing people together from various cultural backgrounds in activities that emphasise their common future together, care for the environment and their contribution to their community | view PDF |
