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Akhtar Badshah and Natalie Tighe

Akhtar Badshah with Natalie Tighe (Manager AES Moree) on a tour of the Moree community

The Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES) has received a Microsoft grant of more than $650,000 to support the development and implementation of an IT Skills training program. This grant was awarded through Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential – Community Technology Skills program.

Over the past eleven years the AES has built an exceptionally strong reputation in providing real jobs for Aboriginal people. This grant will allow AES to implement a youth focused IT skills training program which will ultimately provide young Aboriginal men and women with the skills needed to increase employment participation.

This month (April 2009) I joined Microsoft’s Global Director Community Affairs, Akhtar Badshah who visited the AES in Moree in rural NSW, where the AES first began its operations. This trip to Moree provided us with an insight into how Microsoft’s global program will have an impact, not just on employment opportunity, but also the flow on benefits of greater social cohesion and well being.

On this trip we were also fortunate to be joined by Moree Shires Plain Deputy Mayor Sue Price, and State Member for Barwon, Kevin Humphries.

AES’s program pilot will be rolled out in six communities: Sydney, Dubbo, Kempsey, Tamworth, Moree and Alice Springs. It is anticipated that the program will then be available through their other offices nationally.

Paul Clark, Community Affairs Manager, Microsoft Australia

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