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MARTIN KELLY: Martin Kelly at Pathways 13
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in Canberra. I'm here with
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Gabby and Cleveland and they represent the
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Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience Program.
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Now it's a great program that’s happening and
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Gabby could you tell us a little bit about it.
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GABBY: Sure, so the program is roughly
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12 years old and started in Sydney
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and has grown to be Nationwide
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so, us here in Canberra.
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This year we've seen about 300 mentees
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so over 300 indigenous High School age
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students coming to our program
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which is mainly based at university site
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so ANU and UC where we partnered them up
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with university students as mentors to go
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through sessions for personal development
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and communication as a support for them
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for indigenous success and
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to get them to graduate high school.
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MARTIN: Fantastic, and Cleveland
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can you add anything.
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CLEVELAND: I think the program
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really speaks for itself. If we look at 2005
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when a young man at 18 years old had
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a crazy idea to put an end to inequality
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of Education for Aboriginal and
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Torres Strait Islanders high school
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students. Working with 25 volunteer
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University mentors, walking to a
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school just down the road and
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working with 25 indigenous
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high school students to 12 years
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later operating and running
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the Theatre of Education 49
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most important life lessons for
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
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high school students and we're currently
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working with over 7000 Nationwide.
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MARTIN: That's pretty impressive
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statistics so if you’re here at pathways
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come down and talk to Gabby and
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Cleveland about the program because
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there’ll be students that you will see
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that are sure to benefit from it
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and prospective students as well.
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If you're not at Pathways how can
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people find out about the program?
GABBY: Just Google us
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- aimementoring.com and send us
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an inquiry or email and someone
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will get straight back to you.
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MARTIN: Thanks Gabby
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and thanks Cleveland.