Embrace will be providing training in conjunction with the Centre of Multicultural Youth (CMY). This will be taking place over three Tuesdays, starting on the 28th of July. Each session will run from 5pm-7:30pm with dinner provided. There will be no cost to attend.

Please email us if you intend taking advantage of this great opportunity!

Stay tuned for more details!

Well, the IGM was a success! Warm thanks to all those who came and helped us to get quorum. Embrace is now officially a Club with Monash Clubs & Societies. To read more about it, please download the IGM Minutes.

Congratulations to those who were elected to positions. We hope you can establish Embrace further to keep assisting students into the future. Those elected were as follows...

President: Brendan Payne
Vice-President: Paul Zaharias
Treasurer: David Bowly
Secretary: Lisa Harrison
Member Without Portfolio: Georgina Taylor

However other positions, such as Tutor Manager are still available, and a large number of the committee will need to move on next year. If you are keen to help out in any capacity please let us know and don't hesistate to get involved!

Embrace will be holding its Inuaugural General Meeting (IGM) for registration as a Monash Clubs & Societies Club on the 19th of May, between 12:30 and 2pm.

Download a Map that can be used to inform other Monash students

If you are a Monash student who believes Embrace is a cause worth supporting, we would love to see you there. We've scheduled it so those who have a lecture at 12, can come along at 1 (or those with a lecture at 1 can come at 12:30). If you can only make it between lectures, we'd still love for you to come along. There will be free pizza provided including vegetarian options (please let us know if you have other dietary requirements). In addition to electing positions, there will also be the chance to chat to other Embrace members, and to hear more about plans for Embrace. We hope to see you there!

Embrace is once again in need of more Uni student volunteers to expand our operations, and help more students across Melbourne. Please visit the Volunteer page to find out how you can get involved!

Monash students can keep an eye out for the Embrace O'Week stall at Monash Clayton. We will be there from 12-4pm on the 24th, 25th and 26th of February, as well as the 3rd of March.

Embrace has paid for students to attend Yr 12 end of year revision lectures with TSSM! Thanks to Embrace and TSSM, 24 students were given the opportunity to attend a total of 56 lectures usually valued at $87 each. We are very excited to be able to provide this service for free, as many students desperately wanted to attend, yet would not otherwise have been able to afford the cost. This would not have been possible without the generous discount offered to us by TSSM, so please recommend them to everyone you know who is undertaking VCE.

AMES is providing two days of free tutor training for volunteers. This will be held over two Saturdays, Saturday the 11th of October and Saturday the 18th of October. They will run from 10am until 3pm, with a free lunch provided. The location will be AMES City Campus, 255 William Street Melbourne. If you are interested please email us at admin[at]embrace-education.org before the deadline of the 8th of October.

This semester Embrace has received 8 computers that were repaired by Engineers Without Borders. We have also received pre-loved computers from other generous members of the community. Embrace is extremely grateful for these amazing donations; having a home computer for study can make such a difference to a student. If you have a used computer that you'd like to donate please contact us at donations[at]embrace-education.org

Embrace donates $1100 worth of textbooks and studyguides to Springvale Secondary College. Springvale is the most disadvantaged school in Victoria on a number of levels such as socio-economic status and non-English speaking background. Indeed over 90% of Springvale's students come from a non-English speaking background. We are very happy to be able to assist Springvale in this way, as well as with the Homework Club, In-School, and Individual tutoring programs.

Embrace sister organisation STEW held a successful Inaugural Fundraiser Movie Night on 18 August 2008! It featured a documentary highlighting the struggles and hurdles refugees face when settling into Australia. Thank-you to everyone who came along to support STEW!

A warm welcome back to Uni for the start of semester 2. This is set to be a big semester for Embrace with a number of things in the pipeline including...
- looking into making Embrace a Monash Club in 2009
- rearranging the Embrace Committee
- extending our services to more schools, such as Carwatha College

Embrace has received a generous grant of $7000 from the Fouress Foundation, who have been a fantastic supporter of Embrace.

Two new Tutor Managers, Paul & Michael, have been drafted into Embrace Management. Check under the Volunteer page for their profiles, which are soon to be uploaded.

Embrace has received a generous donation of leftover Daffodil Day pens from the Cancer Council. These pens will be used and distributed to our students and schools.

Gavin Jennings, (Minister for the Environment & Climate Change,
Innovation & Member for South Eastern Metropolitan Region), has kindly provided Embrace with office space at his office in Mt Waverley. We are very grateful to Gavin as this will greatly enhance Embrace's efficiency at delivering services to our clients.