Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services (Multicultural Services) is a welcoming not-for-profit organisation that empowers people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to participate fully in Australian society. We are an ethnic communities council run by and for multicultural communities.
We are the peak multicultural organisation in the Loddon Campaspe region.
Fazeleh Sayedi
I am Hazara. I have been in Australia three years and seven months. I came to Australia with my mum and younger brother and little sister. I didn’t speak any English. Before I came to Bendigo I thought all the world spoke in one language.
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Bruno Spandonide
I’ve been in Australia almost thirteen years.
My parents were political refugees from Romania when it was a dictatorship. It took courage and organisation for them to get to Paris.
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Shilin Roy
I came to Australia in 2007, January. I studied my post-registration in nursing in Ballarat Uni for one year, then I moved to Bendigo.
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Mangok Deng
I’m the president of a non-profit organisation for the South Sudanese community called Whetayoukyouk. We provide families with resources that they don’t have: food, language, help with Centrelink, interpreting, finding a job, filling in forms, a youth group.
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Kalapriya Selvaraj
I am a Tamil speaker, from Hindu background. I love my culture’s traditional dance, and spices and food but most the culture that respects my family and elders. I’ve been in Australia since the beginning of 2016, waiting for my visa to be processed.
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Hanna Solodka
I have been in Australia three and a half years. All that time I have been in Bendigo. I am a writer; I write stories and poems.
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Silvia Moo
I have been in Australia almost eight years. I haven’t been back to Thailand. I’m still waiting for citizenship. My mum has citizenship, I’m still waiting. She hasn’t been back, probably she’s waiting for me! We applied together in 2016. It’s been a really long process. It’s like nightmare, you don’t really know what is going to happen next.
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Nay Blu Htoo Tha
I have been in Australia for eight years. We came on September 6. I was almost twelve. We first came to Bendigo. I don’t know anyone and then after a couple of months I go to school...
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This exhibition – a collection of stories made up of words and images – is part of the Our Home, Our Future Project. Eight contributors from Central Victoria kindly shared their images and stories about their journey to Bendigo, what home and belonging mean to them and their vision for a vibrant and inclusive future. We give a heartfelt thank-you to these contributors and their communities for their ongoing courage and generosity:
Fazeleh Sayedi, Mangok Deng, Bruno Spandonide, Hanna Solodka, Kalapriya Selvaraj, Shilin Roy, Nay Blu, Silvia Moo
Photography by Nick Styles, Bat City. Words: Nokomi Achkar, Community Engagement Coordinator, Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services.