Australian Projects
HARDA has a number of projects that are either in progress or recently completed.
A selection of these are:
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Swim, Survive and Socialise Program, 2012/2013 The Swim, survive and socialise project is a comprehensive swimming and water safety program for children between the ages 7 and 11 from CALD refugee or migrant backgrounds. The lack of awareness among children from these backgrounds prompted HARDA to conduct swimming programs to better equip refugee children with swimming skills. We have run two programs of Swim, Survive and Socialise during the school holidays, one in Sept and the other in Jan 2013. They were both held at the Seven Hills at the Aquatic Safety Training Academy. They included 10*30 minutes classes, where children with various levels of swimming abilities were taught the basics of swimming. More |
Classes held: 24 Sept- 5 Oct 2012 & 14 - 25 Jan 2013
@ Aquatic Safety Training Academy, 78 Best St, Seven Hills NOTE: this program will also be run in April during the school holidays, with details to be confirmed shortly. Please drop us an email if you have children you would like to participate in this. |
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Cooking Pot United by food - a free cooking program for Horn of African refugee and Australian women to learn new dishes and get to know each other. see SMH article |
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Somali Youth Outreach Project 2011
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The HARDA- Sydney Stars Somali Football Club ‘Youth Outreach Program 2011’ funded by the Attorney-General’s Building Community Resilience Program provided an intensive mentoring program and sporting and community/entertainment activities for young Somalis and CALD youth. More |
| More on some of our past projects |
Overseas Projects
HARDA works with on the ground partners in the HoA countries and is actively involved in overseas aid with ongoing projects, like Famine Relief and an annual Kenyan Eye and Cataract Project. Other model projects completed with HARDAs support include Fast 2 Feed and a Somali Water Harvesting Project.
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Kenyan Cataract Project 2012
A "state of the art" microscope was donated by the Clark Family Foundation through HARDA, for use in this year's WARDA Kenyan Cataract Project. This wonderful donation helped restore the sight of many. More |
Famine Relief
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Fast To Feed 2011 |
Somali Water Project
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Kenyan Catract Project 2011
Using portable surgical microscopes and working for upto thirteen hours over a period of two days, Doctors of Hope restored the sight of 200 men and women who were blind for many years. More |
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HARDA joined Muslim Aid Australia during the Ramadan month of August/September to facilitate the distribution of food aid to 475 families including orphans, elderly men and women and disabled people in the war ravaged villages of Darfur and the drought affected communities of nomadic pastoralists in Northern Kenya
