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ICV 2015 Annual Report.Cdr ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 15 ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF VICTORIA OUR STAKEHOLDERS & PARTNERS The ICV wishes to express our sincere gratitude’s to a host of organisations who have worked with and supported the Muslim community in various capacities throughout the 2104-15. There were literally over 100 groups we have engaged with and we hereby list a sample. Your leadership and your genuine commitment to social cohesion in our state has contributed to the ICV playing a more eective role as a peak body. It’s a collective journey and our successes are your successes! AFIC - Australian Federation of Islamic Councils IMA - Islamic Museum of Australia AFL - Australian Football League Immigration Dept AFP - Australian Federal Police JCCV – Jewish Communities Council of Victoria AG - Attorney Generals Dept JCMA - Jews Christians Muslims Association Al Wasat Newspaper La Trobe Uni Centre for Dialogue AMF - Australian Multicultural Foundation MAG – Multifaith Advisory Group ANIC - Australian National Imams Council MCCA – Muslim Community Co-operative Australia Benevolence Melbourne Uni - Chaplaincy BOIV - Victorian Board of Imams Muslim Exchange Program (Indonesian) Cabrini Health Muslim Legal Network CCN – Community Care Network NCEIS - National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies CMY – Centre of Multicultural Youth OHPI - Online Hate Prevention Institute Corrections Victoria OMAC - Oce of Multiculturalism & Citizenship DHS – Dept of Human Services OTA – Organ Tissue Authority & Donate Life Diyanet - Turkish Ministry of Religious Aairs SHV - Spiritual Health Victoria DPC Community Resilience Unit SMCT – Southern Metropolitan Cemetery Trust DSS – Dept of Social Services Uniting Church ECCV - Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria VAADA - Victorian Alcohol and Drugs Association Emergency Ministry (VCC) Variety Victoria Faith Leaders Group - Prison Chaplaincy VCC – Victorian Council of Churches FCCV – Faith communities council of Victoria VEOHRC - Vic Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission Foodbank Victoria Police GMCT – General Metropolitan Cemetery Trust Victoria University – Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, HAI – Human Appeal Australia VMC - Victorian Multicultural Commission Huddle – Nth Melbourne Football Club VWBT - Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust 1 2 OUR PEOPLE EXCO Ghaith Krayem President Bayram Aktepe Vice-President Seyfi Seyit Secretary Mohamed Mohideen Treasurer Junaid Cheema Executive Member Omar Abdo Executive Member Monique Toohey Executive Member Nur Shkembi Executive Member Zeynep Sertel Non-Executive Member RETIRED EXCO Nadeem Hussain President Mohamad Tabiaat Vice President Eugenia Flynn Treasurer Mohamad Tabbaa Executive Member Almir Colan Executive Member Osama Saad Executive Member Ecehan Gulbayrak Executive Member Mohamad Elrafihi Executive Member STAFF Nail Aykan Executive Director Ayman Islam Services Manager Sumeyya Kutlu Oce Manager Bahriye Bol Communications Ocer Liyana Schroeder Executive Assistant Cornelius Romein IT Administrator Sheikh Abdinur Weli ICV Imam Sheikh Moustapha Sarakibi ICV Imam & Prison Chaplain Anthony Vitale CISP Program Manager Altaf Hussain Senior Prison Chaplain Asma Siddiq Bhatti NILS Program Co-ordinator Lina Ayoubi Hospital Chaplaincy Co-ordinator Rahil Khan Prison Chaplaincy Co-ordinator Remzi Unal CISP Liasion Ocer Majidih Essa ICV Imam & CISP Religious Services Co-ordinator Esref Avda CISP Social Worker Matlub Ali ICV Food Bank & Zakat Ocer Mensur Cosic Caretaker RETIRED STAFF Halima Ramadan Family Care Co-ordinator Yasemin Erbas-Dent Emergency Assist Project Manager Yasmin Sungkar Emergency Assist Project Manager Humera Gillani Emergency Assist Project Manager Sarah Mahri Youth Engagement Ocer Hussein Hafez Youth Engagement Ocer Muhamed Jemai Youth Engagement Ocer MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT This work spanned nearly 4 months issues the ICV has tried to increase its and involved over 50 1-on-1 interviews communication and engagement with with stakeholders as well as numerous our own community in respect to sessions with the Board and senior ICV these matters. We have done this members. The key recommendations through a number of community of this review are included in this forums and consultations and inviting report in addition to which a copy of key government stakeholders to be the full report will be provided to our present and answerable directly the members. The Board has determined community. This has included senior to accept all the recommendations put managers from the Attorney General’s forward by Professor Camilleri. We Department and both State and will engage with our members further Federal Ministers. In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious on some of the key issues in coming Most Merciful - Assalam Alaykum wa months to ensure the final outcomes I think it is fair to say that the current Rahmatullah wa Barakatahu are relevant and appropriate but when environment is the most challenging it this work is completed I am confident has ever been for our community and We give thanks and Praise to Allah, that it will set the ICV to be in the best I’d like to extend my gratitude to the Most Exalted, and send our prayers position possible to meet the future sta and volunteers of the ICV and blessings on our beloved Master needs of the community. without whom it would simply not be Prophet Mohamed. able to function. They do an incredible Secondly, the services that the ICV job and often with little recognition for On behalf of the Executive Committee provides have continued to grow and their eorts. I would also like to thank of the ICV it is with pleasure that we strengthen. The ICV established a our member societies for their support present to our Members, community new Services Manager role to provide a and engagement and trust in us to act and stakeholders the Annual Report greater level of dedicated attention to on their behalf. I would like to thank for 2015. improving the eectiveness and my Board members whose dedication eciency of our day-to-day services and sincerity is unquestionably. It is a This last year has seen many such as our various Chaplancy dicult burden they have accepted challenges and achievements for our p ro g ra m s , Za ka t , N I LS, Fo o d and may they be rewarded for their community and the ICV. Our eorts Outreach, Youth programs and the eorts. have broadly fallen into 3 main many others. This is the beginning of categories: a strategy to professionalise this facet Finally I would like to thank our of the ICV’s operations and to increase Executive Director Br Nail Aykan. His Firstly, there has been a great deal of the scope of strategic work that the commitment and dedication to the consolidation at an operational level. Executive Director and Board can then ICV and the community is without peer The ICV has a fantastic base and focus on. and without whom the ICV would not platform to build from but to meet the be what it is today. His role is the most increasingly complex and challenging Finally, and what takes the majority dicult of all and has required environment we find ourselves in, it time of the Board itself, is the external enormous sacrifices on his part and needs to consolidate that foundation a d v o c a c y a n d s t a k e h o l d e r that of his family. May Allah Most and use it as platform to grow and management that has been required Exalted, accept and bless each and become the organisation the in this environment where there is a every one of his deeds. community needs for the next decade concerted government and media as it has been for the last 40 years. To focus on our community. The last 12 While the last 12 months have been that end we have been fortunate to months has seen the introduction of a challenging the next will be no less so. have the assistance of Professor Joe number of important pieces of We ask Allah, Most Exalted, to keep us Camilleri, on a pro bono basis, to do a legislation the impact of which is firm in our sincerity to work in His complete strategic review of the disproportionately greater on our cause, to forgive us our shortcomings organisation. community than any other. and to keep our intentions pure. All success comes from Allah, Most Each government proposal requires a Exalted, and we ask our members and high level of time and eort to engage the community to forgive us our with and respond to. Additionally mistakes and to keep us in their there have been significant incidents prayers. in the community that have required a careful and nuanced response. In Ghaith Krayem addition to dealing with these various President 3 4 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The ICV vision ‘To foster and enable a vibrant Islamic community where Muslims enrich society through the values of Islam’ remains an unequivocal statement of how we see ourselves collectively in the roles “of leadership within the Victorian Muslim community. Our community spirits and inherent harmony has contributed to our success as a peak body and service provider. Throughout 2014–15, the Islamic I particularly need to thank my president Br Ghaith Krayem for his Council of Victoria (ICV) has continued Some of the highlights to evolve and develop. We have strategic leader”ship and whose of the period were; experienced continuous growth and support, encouragement and counsel improvement of our services in has been vital during a period of > Strategic Review and 3 Year important transition. Ghaith is to be response to the growing demands and Plan by Prof. Joe Camilleri expectations of a Muslim peak-body. commended for his balanced and principled stewardship, responsive and > The appointment of a new passionate community engagement Our ability in continually building a Services Manager role strong and resilient organisation is due and an unswerving commitment to social justice causes. in no small part to the strength of our > Interfaith activities: relationships across many stakeholders I also pay my respects to our Treasurer and the commitment of our executive, - Jewish Muslim Friendship Dinner; Br Mohamad Mohideen for his prudent sta and volunteers: in a nutshell it and responsible management of our c o m e s d o w n t o ‘ p e o p l e a n d - Prayer Vigil in response partnerships’.Through ICV’s direct to the Sydney Siege.
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