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Progress report on Jalaris Kids Garden 2010 Movie

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:59:49 +0000

After 5 weeks of film-maker Brad Riley’s volunteer work up in Derby working on a movie documenting the Jalaris Kids Garden Project here is a short slide show Brad made about progress on the film:

Progress report on Jalaris Kids Garden 2010 Movie

For more about Brad’s project check out his film-making blog by clicking here.

2009 Jalaris Kid’s Futures Club Evaluation Report

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:19:29 +0000

Click on the following link to download a high resolution version of the 2009 Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation’s Kid’s Futures Club Evaluation Report (8.3mb).

For more information on this project please contact Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation at jalaris@westnet.com.au or phone (Australia + 61) 08 9193 2200.

Jalaris Kids Future Club Garden Project

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:58:53 +0000

In 2009 Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation started a garden project as part of their Kids Future Club program. Side by Side & Jalaris on ways to use video and photography to evaluate the kids experiences of the garden project as part of an ongoing evaluation of the Kids Future Club.

Once the wet season ended and the cooler weather started in March, Jalaris commenced the garden project. This involved staff doing the heavy work of digging and fertilising the garden beds and installing reticulation first, and then teaching the kids how to plant the beds with a variety of vegetables and herbs: corn, tomato, watermelon, lettuce, pumpkin, silver beet, capsicum, basil etc. They have also planted orange, lime, fig and lemon trees. Click on the following link to see a video of the kids planting tomatoes, videoed by one of the kids club members…

Jalaris Kids Future Club Garden Project

The project is linked to health and nutrition through supporting kids to learn about growing and eating vegies and doing physical activity in the process, as well as literacy and numeracy by getting the kids to record what they have planted, how many they have planted, why they are healthy, how fast they are growing, and to document the progress of the project with photographs, video and drawings. This is a long term project, and Jalaris is motivating the kids to persevere with it by offering a prize of a laptop computer for the best efforts by the kids at the end of the year. Below are photos of the garden project in August, as well as when it began back in March 2009.

Below are some pictures of the garden and the kids at work and play (click on each to see it enlarged).

Singing Out Book Project

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:45:56 +0000

Singing Out Book cover image

In June and July 2008, Side by Side Community Project Consulting and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation partnered with The Neighborhood Story Project in running a book-making workshop for Aboriginal ladies from Derby. The project was to put together a book of stories about women’s experiences of education and learning using writing, interviewing and photography, and forms part of the community-based research on issues for Indigenous kids and families in Derby on which Jalaris and Side by Side are collaborating. The hope was that the stories would contribute to better understanding and knowledge of the diverse influences on Indigenous educational experiences in the Derby region today.

The project drew on the Neighborhood Story Projects model of community writing and interviewing, and the methods of participatory photography and story telling of Side by Side and Jalaris. Over an intensive month 7 women ranging in age from 21 to 60 years old wrote stories about themselves and their lives and took photographs to accompany their stories. The 7 writers selected, interviewed & photographed 7 other women in the Derby community who’s stories of education and learning they felt should be included in the book.

The final product was launched in November 2008 in Derby, Western Australia. Follow this link to hear a radio interview from local Derby station 6DBY about the Singing Out book launch, which includes readings from some of the writers. The book is not for sale, however limited copies are available through Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation, Side by Side Community Project Consulting & the Neighborhood Story Project.

You can see selected pages from Carlene Wises story below:

Jalaris Evaluation Report 2008

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:42:12 +0000

Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation and Side by Side Community Project Consulting are undertaking a long term evaluation of Jalaris’ Kids Future Club program. 2008 was the first full year of the evaluation process. The 2008 evaluation report was completed in February 2009, and was put together in graphic format. The report was designed as a comic layout using photographs from the project (using Comic Life software) and has an accompanying DVD of video taken by the kids at the Club.

Jalaris Kids Future Club Evaluation 2008 - front cover

To download a PDF copy of the 2008 report click on the following link : Jalaris Kids Future Club Evaluation Report 2008 (PDF 9mb approx)

For more information on this project please contact Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation at jalaris@westnet.com.au or phone (Australia + 61) 08 9193 2200.