Finances and Governance Volunteers 2019-2020 2019 / 2020 Annual Report

Abdullahi Noor Evelina Stylianopoulos Le Kim Yen Tran (Ki) Nina Elzbieta Lenarcik Albert Wai Sing Chan Faduma Omar Lee Yunah Oleksandr Sirenko REVENUE Alessandro Sereni Fatemeh Mahmoudian Lenard Sciancalepore Ozgur Varlik Ana Mercedes Fatima Salihi Leszek Hermanowicz Patrizia Kadis Grants 86% Ana Mrkic Fellicia Emily Stanza Lijun Deng (Alii) Peter Ian West Government Assistance - Covid19 10% $1,560,034 Anab A Warsame Fook Chen Lee (Fritz) Lisa Chhit Peter Anglberger Bank interest 1% Anastasia Tsompanoudis Forogh Salkeh Dirin Liz Lopez Pierina Chiali Andriana Economou Giorgia Caruso Luca Penzo Rajendra Pandey Hire fees & miscellaneous income 3% Angela Palumbo Giovanni Forgione Luis Alejandro Cohen Renate Diedrichsen Angela Sihakoun Gosia Skalban OAM Cobo Sandra Marchetti Anil & Shweta Sharma Hamza Begovic Luul Issack Sareyo Issack For full audited results provided by HLB Mann Judd visit www.mccsa.org.au Anna Zacharko Hana Ali Mabruka Obsa Sheela Langberg Arianna Reitano Harula Mollas Marcelina Mendoza Shyami Kariyawasam Nunez Belinda Aungon Hee Young Lim Sidney Jamieson Maren Butz Bernard Morellini Helen ARVINS Silvio Iadarola Margota Pukitis EXPENDITURE Binti Hassan Arbow Hildegarda Anna and Sophia Degner Maria Ciardiello Chance Ndume Leon Jakubowski Soreti Anderson Employee Remuneration Maria Dnistrjanski OAM 68% Cheuk Ying Lau Hong Su hee Stella Savoutakis Maria Donatella Guasti Depreciation 3% $1,566,407 (Jennifer) Hugo Perpetuo Stuart Campbell Cho Joo Hyun Hwang Hyejin Maria Marttinen Operating expenses 29% Sumaya Keyse Abdinoor Maria Vardakastani Cho Sang-Hee Ian Harmstorf OAM Thi Nu Chau Vo Cho Sung Hee Ibrahim Ali Marija Sosa (Chau Vo - Carol) Christophe Thomas Ilhan Warsame Marina Walker Thi Thanh Quyen Vo Concetta Lynch Ilonka Milencovici Martina Munn (Phoenix) Daniel Pascal Naum Irene Pikusa Marwa Arfa Tony Saad Daniela Costa Isabella Bracco Maryna Renz Tu Kim Nguyen Our team Danika Leak Isha Rasulu Marzieh Khosravanifar Vincent Khang Diangela Nervis Jenny Ngin Michael Kasprzak Vladimir Kovac Dimitria Couis Jeoung Soo Young Michelle Brigham Warwick Raymont Dr. MANAGEMENT STAFF Dimitroula Mazis Joao Victor Ruffo Milica Damjanovic Wendy Chan COMMITTEE Egidio (Eddie) John Schneider Milica Runic Yahye Aden HELENA KYRIAZOPOULOS FLORINE FERNANDES EXECUTIVE Emanuele Julia Kwok Miriam Cocking Yassin Abdullahi Chief Executive Officer KARINA SADER Eiman Abdul Rahma Juma Nichola Monika Stein Yuliya Taveira MAGGIE ASSAAD MRS MIRIAM COCKING KRISTIN JOHANSSON Ekaterina Miller Jurek Dnistrjanski Nasir Hussain Yuliya Zhylikhovska MILAN ANDELKOVIC Elisabeth Schefl Nelida Azucena (Nelli) Yun Hongmi Chairperson Manager of Projects Karolina Kaczorowska Rasgido Community Visitor Scheme Elizabeth Taban Katarina Cadez Zeljko (Michael) DR IAN HARMSTORF OAM Nevine Matta Abramovic MEGAN HILL Elpinki Christopoulos Kelvin Wong Deputy Chair LENA GASPARYAN (Nikki) Nicole & Scott Zuzana Begovic Manager of Programs King Heung (Eva) Wong XIAOHUI (ABBY) LUI Elvira Gabriella Helen Donaldson SILVIO IADAROLA Kishor Chand SHARON MOONEY Kickstart Your Children’s Success Varricchio (Vera) Treasurer Accountant MEGS LAMB JUNE LEE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Successful Communities Administration SIDIQUE BAH Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia Daniela Costa LING GIANG Transport & Communications 113 Gilbert Street, Adelaide Phone 8345 5266 www.mccsa.org.au Malgorzata (Gosia) Finance LUJBO ALYMPIC Skalban OAM ISABELLA BRACCO Transport Margota Pukitis Community Visitors Scheme/ MCCSA IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY UKASH AHMED Nasir Hussain Project Officer Patrizia Kadis GABRIEL AKON SAVRY OUK Youth Engagement Rajendra Pandey Government of Reconnect South Australia Lenard Sciancalepore COMMUNITY VISITORS YOUTH Chairperson and CEO Report SCHEME EMPOWERMENT COMMUNITY PROGRAMS 45 Years Strong, 70 years of tradition, but ageless in our passion and enthusiasm! Multicultural EVENTS 1685 TRANSPORT Communities > SALA 266 This year we acknowledged 45 years of servicing multicultural South Australia, with our humble beginnings VISITS > INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY PARTICIPANTS going back 70 years to the establishment of the Good Neighbour Council. The theme for this occasion was Council > REFUGEE WEEK ACTIVITIES 45 Years Strong, 70 years of tradition. We are proud of our long history as the peak Multicultural Agency in > NARACOORTE SOCCER CARNIVAL 26,378 > YOUTH DROP IN of South KILOMETRES TRAVELLED South Australia, supporting and enabling our communities over many years. > ENGAGEMENT THROUGH SPORT AND MUSIC This important milestone was recognised by the Governor and Mrs Le with a reception at Government Australia House, and a Sunday afternoon celebration at the Migration Museum for all our members, volunteers both past and present, and friends of the Multicultural Communities Council of SA (MCCSA) to enjoy. The occasion was filled with much fond reminiscing of yesteryears and good wishes for our future. HALL AND

We have in place a Strategic Plan, which provides direction towards achieving our stated vision of an TRAINING equitable, cohesive and thriving South Australia. Over the past twelve months the Board and Staff of the ROOM ADVOCACY MCCSA have continued to work across the Strategic Plan building a stronger and brighter future for our USAGE member organisations and contributing to the broader South Australian community. > ROYAL COMMISSION INTO PROJECTS AGED CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY The MCCSA program base continues to grow and diversify, not only supporting Government and community > WASTE MANAGEMENT > REVIEW OF THE SAMEAC ACT needs but also assisting Private Industry in meeting their access and equity obligations. Our programs 1,191 > AUSTRALIAN GAS NETWORKS > REVIEW OF THE MY AGED CARE PLAY provide opportunities for successful settlement, assisting communities, temporary migrants, skilled migrants > INTERCULTURAL YOUNG LEADERS NAVIGATOR TRIAL. GROUPS and international students in connecting with the wider community. TIMES > DISASTER RESILIENCE > REVIEW OF HEALTH PERFORMANCE MULTICULTURAL, COUNCIL MENTAL HEALTH IN SA – In 2019/20 we have undertaken 16 programs covering over 61 languages, an enormous achievement for a > ACTIVE AND CONNECTED KOREAN MONITORING ACCESS AND relatively small group of part-time staff. Also, without our amazing team of volunteers, we would not be able COMMUNITIES OUTCOMES REPORT to achieve half of what we do for the community. THANK YOU! > KICKSTART YOUR CHILD’S SUCCESS > COVID 19 SUPPORT FOR CALD Our MCCSA Multicultural Hub at 113 Gilbert Street continues to provide a home for many of our smaller COMMUNITIES, STATE AND FEDERAL communities enabling them to have a location and presence to support their own. As we continue to offer more programs our own organisational accommodation needs are increasing, both in the CBD and north of SUCCESSFUL Adelaide. COMMUNITIES

This year, we have seen our country ravaged with rampant bush fires, floods, and a once in a lifetime pandemic. We have all read about pandemics in our history books, but never before experienced them first 16 SESSIONS hand until 2020! All of us were affected in some way, and there was an immediate need to change how we > GOVERNANCE worked and lived. We were forced to accelerate and embrace new technologies overnight. Our programs MULTICULTURAL > LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT moved from face to face, to using a multimedia, multimodal approach, using Zoom, virtual networks, COVID 19 MEN’S GROUP Facebook, Ethnic Radio, Twitter and good old fashioned phone. SUPPORT COMMUNICATION The past few months have been extraordinary, there have been many good stories to tell but also ones 2 EVENTS of sadness and despair of being away from loved ones. During this time, the MCCSA has been there 216 > MCCSA 5EBI MONTHLY supporting our members with up to date information, guidance and program support and also working PARTICIPANTS RADIO PROGRAM with Government Agencies in meeting community needs. We congratulate our Ethnic Communities for > COMMUNITY VOICES supporting their own during the COVID period and they continue to do so as life returns to the new normal. MCCSA SOCIAL > LIVE @ LUNCH AGEING > SOCIAL MEDIA > LIVE @ FIVE CARERS > WEBSITE We must also acknowledge the excellent planning and work done by our State Government Covid-19 SUPPORT > HEALTH AND > AGEING WELL NETWORKS Response Team, their policies kept us very safe and made South Australia a model for other States to follow. RETREATS PROGRAMS WELLNESS WEBSITE > KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS Thank you to all our members for your continued commitment and support of the MCCSA and the PROGRAMS – MACEDONIAN, > IRANIAN POETRY GROUP LATVIAN, BOSNIAN, multicultural sector. > ARMENIAN ART GROUP UKRAINIAN COMMUNITIES RETREATS17 > RUSSIAN ART GROUP > SPANISH SPEAKING RECONNECT ART GROUP Miriam Cocking Helena Kyriazopoulos > KOREAN ART GROUP Chairperson Chief Executive Officer 72 CLIENTS For a more detailed annual report visit www.mccsa.org.au