 |
|
C-BERSS EX-PRESS
September 2001
Issue 3, Vol 4
|
|
| |
 |
All Newsletters : September 2001 : Malta Migrants Matter
Malta Migrants Matter
At St Catherine’s College in Nedlands on 3 August, former child migrants from Malta and their partners attended a meeting organized by C-BERS to discuss issues of particular concern to them.
The meeting was a “chatty, informative and engaging affair” with topics discussed including: The launch of the Maltese Oral History Project; The Senate Inquiry into Child Migration; The Child Migrant Fund and its conditions of travel funding.
The Senate Inquiry into Child Migration has acknowledged the right of former child migrants from Malta to equal status in their access to support services (including access to travel funding) as child migrants from other destinations. (Recommendation 2). C-BERS supports this recommendation and has sought through a number of its services and initiatives to respond to the special needs and issues that face the more than 300 child migrants who, from 1950 to 1965, were sent to Western Australia from Malta.
|
|
cberss.org