Driving program helps Alice Springs Locals Find Work

driving lessons help locals find work

STEPS Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) team in Alice Springs has been passionately working alongside the Tangentyere Council to launch the Learner Driver Training program. Not having a license is one of the biggest barriers to gaining employment and the STEPS SEE Program stepped in to provide support. Since commencing in April, the program […]

Teaching is a two-way street for Anne in Alice Springs

STEPS SEE Trainer Anne

Three times a week, Anne welcomes a group of students to STEPS Education and Training in Alice Springs. The students travel from the outskirts of Alice Springs, from a quiet property that stretches out for five hectares, for many years the property has been “a place of health, hope and healing” for Indigenous people. The Central […]

In the classroom with Anne

Alice Springs AMEP Trainer Anne

Meet our newest STEPS AMEP trainer Anne McGown! Can you tell me about yourself? I am a semi-retired teacher in Alice Springs. I enjoy teaching students who need support. I have worked in Singapore and Australia. My hobbies are attending community events as a St. Johns Ambulance volunteer, gardening, and playing the piano. What made […]

STEPS AMEP Student Diary: Rabia Chreki

STEPS AMEP student Rabia

Rabia Chreki has been learning English in the Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) in Alice Springs, she enjoys the teaching style and likes “meeting with different cultured students and studying English with the kindest teachers.” Three years ago, Rabia moved from Syria to Australia with her husband and children. “I’m very happy with my choice […]

In Alice: A new life, new language and new opportunities

STEPS AMEP student Awur with STEPS AMEP Manager Philip

Reuniting her family, building a life in a new country, learning English for the first time, a lot has happened in two short years for Awur Mabior Yaar Dupho. It wasn’t long ago that Awur first came to Australia with her two young children, joining her husband who has been living and working here for […]