When Sandy Kurdi left Lebanon in 2018 to start a new life in Sydney, she left behind not only her family but also a Bachelor of Physics degree, which she was just one semester away from completing.

Three years on, the 22-year-old now has a baby boy to look after, but she is as determined as ever to complete her degree and start her science career, which she is on her way to achieving with the help of Navitas Skilled Futures.

​A partnership between Navitas Skilled Futures Canberra and a local social enterprise café has served up some valuable hospitality and customer service experience for refugee and migrant women, with a side of English lessons.

The project ran over a term and included classroom preparation and planning, culminating in hands-on experience at the café split over two days in June.

We are delighted to introduce Joergette Medel as Navitas Skilled Futures’s new Career Transition Assistance (CTA) Coordinator.

Joergette joined the business in April bringing with her a wealth of experience in the employment sector where she has spent time in HR, training and employment services.

It was a cold, wet morning in Canberra on Thursday but inside a converted 1920s homestead on the outskirts of the territory, the mood couldn’t have been warmer or brighter.

Refugee women from around the world welcomed the Hon. Alex Hawke MP to breakfast at Café Stepping Stone as part of Refugee Week celebrations hosted by Navitas Skilled Futures.

During Refugee Week, Navitas Skilled Futures’s Basim Shamaon received a prestigious NSW Humanitarian Award for his outstanding work with refugees.

He spoke to Fiona West about his own journey as a young Iraqi refugee and how it helped him find his calling in a vocation devoted to helping others.

It was a colourful start to Refugee Week at Fairfield on Monday with the launch of “Our Journey to Unity”, an innovative art project by the college’s youth class.

The collaborative project between Navitas and Fairfield City Council saw the students’ vibrant perspective drawings displayed at the college and in a public installation on the footpath at a prominent intersection in the CBD.

Navitas Skilled Futures, in collaboration with Settlement Services International (SSI), has helped make everyday life activities easier for female refugees through a short practical course tailored specifically to their needs.
The course gave students the confidence to use essential smartphone applications and access government services.

A journalist for Japan’s biggest circulating daily newspaper hopes his home country can learn from the benefits of the AMEP (Adult Migrant English Program).

Sydney Bureau Chief of The Asahi Shimbun, Tetsuo Kogure, visited the Bankstown campus in April to interview staff and students.

There are not many opportunities to make someone’s life significantly better with nothing more than just one to two hours of your time each week.

But at Navitas Skilled Futures, hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and interests are doing just that – by participating in the Volunteer Tutor Scheme (VTS).

Navitas Skilled Futures welcomes the significant changes to the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) which will allow even more migrants and refugees to learn invaluable English and employability skills.

Harmony Week concludes today (March 15-21). But as schools, community groups and workplaces across Australia pack away their decorations for another year, Navitas Skilled Futures is stepping up activities, including a cross-college, cross-cultural youth event with at Cabravale Memorial Park, Cabramatta, next Thursday (March 25).

Navitas Skilled Futures is honoured to have received the Corporate Business Excellence Medal in the 2021 Premier’s Multicultural Community Medals.