eKourier July 2012

Training Highlights

“Home in a Box” The Mercy Foundation is a Not for Profit Catholic organisation, under the auspices of the North Sydney Sisters of Mercy. It is an organisation committed to social justice and structural change to create greater social equity and inclusion in the Australian community. The primary social justice issue which the Mercy Foundation is currently concerned with is homelessness and its related causes and consequences. These include: affordable housing, poverty, family violence, social exclusion, mental illness, disability, addictions and brain injury. Supporting initiatives which have one or more of the following as their core goal: • Preventing homelessness; • Responding appropriately to homelessness or; • Ending chronic homelessness. Kennards Self Storage has partnered with The Mercy Foundation on a new project called “ Home in a Box ”. Supplying donated storage space and Kennards Boxes to support the initiative. Once homeless people move into permanent housing, many are in need of household items like towels, sheets, crockery, and cutlery to settle into their new home. It is often these items that are the least affordable when living on a budget, but it is these possessions that help make a house a home. Home in a Box was developed in response to this need. By helping to create a sense of home, together with the right support services, people are more likely to stay housed and break the cycle of homelessness. Home in a Box will go a long way to helping formerly homeless people settle into their home. To learn more about The Mercy Foundation go here. http://www. mercyfoundation.com.au/index.cfm

To deliver Skillbuilder in New Zealand the Team travel between sites by various types of transport. They were seen on this trip, high above Rotorua in the most unusual transport - a Gondola! L to R - Bill McClean - Training Manager, Bev Brooking - Relief Manager New Zealand, Andrew Kirkham - Operations Manager New Zealand

Skillbuilder. Back Left - Brad Hampson (Brookvale), Front Left - Gary Longmire (Auburn), Back Right - Mark Rankin (Caringbah), Front Right - Joel Mc Donald (Artarmon)

Wayne took time to check out the CCC while in Sydney for Effective Centre Management Training. L to R - Christina Gregoriou (CCC), Wayne McLaren (Chermside), Katerina Lousi (CCC), Dianne White (CCC)

Left: N.E.T.Training. L to R - Ron Sereno (TSM), Arjuna Segarajasekeran (Fyshwick), Marc Leong (Yeerongpilly), Nathan Roth (Artarmon)

Below: Effective Centre Management Training. L to R - Tony Vuong (THQ), Peter Reid (Moore Park), Nigel Spragg (Huntingdale), Bryan Cole Napier), Duncan Newington (Tauranga), Sarf Khan (Campbelltown1), Carl Spence (Mona Vale), Glen D’Souza (Chermside)

Sharon Dux PA to MD

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Kennards Kourier July 2012