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Newsletter Update - January 2015

Happy new year, dear members and friends!  Are you ready for 2015? Because JCI Eastern members are ready to embrace another action-packed year and we invite you to join us on our journey.

To catch up with the latest development with JCI Eastern in this month's newsletter, click here!

Welcome to the 2015 Board of Directors

We are pleased to announce the 2015 Board of Directors for JCI Eastern. Are you interested in finding out what the 2015 Board has planned for JCI Eastern? Why not send us an email at jcieastern@gmail.com!

2015 Chapter President: Sam Gibb
2015 Chapter Secretary: Sarah Neil
2015 Chapter Treasurer and Immediate Past President: Ben Morris
2015 Chapter Public Relations Officer: Alice Ly Muy

News update - December 2014 Edition

JCI Eastern concluded our epic 2014 with a wonderful Hampers in Action project. To learn more about what we did in December, click here.

Announcing the 2015 JCI Australia National President

JCI Eastern is pleased to announce JCI Eastern member, Suzi Chen, as the incoming National President of JCI Australia.

Trained as a medical scientist and now works as a project manager for Country Fire Authority, Suzi has been involved with JCI since 2006 and has been an active JCI member with a strong passion in delivering community projects. In her speech at the October National Convention, Suzi explained the importance of building/re-introducing the relevance of JCI in what we do, a theme that Suzi wishes to foster for 2015.

We are excited to have Suzi leading us in 2015 and JCI Eastern sends our congratulations and the very best wishes to the 2015 National Board.

Stationery Drive is BACK!

Our super successful Stationery Drive in Aug/Sept this year saw JCI Eastern and Deakin Golden Key collected over 11,000 stationery items for donation. This overwhelming success means that we are back for more!

With the end of school term is just around the corner, why not consider donating your pre-loved stationery items to benefit Indigenous children in remote Australian communities?

Please contact us this November to arrange your donation.

We are the winner!

JCI Eastern won 3 awards at the JCI Australia National Convention in Sydney this October:

Best Local Community Empowerment Program

Hampers in Action 2013

Best Local Personal Skills Development Program
Art2Heart 2014

Most Outstanding New Local Member
Sam Gibb

We thank all our members and volunteers who have put in the hard work making our wonderful community initiatives possible.

Congratulations also go to the 2014 First Timer Scholarship recipient, Sam Gibb, from JCI Eastern!!! The First Timer Scholarship, an initiative by AJC Foundation, supported Sam's attendance at this year's National Convention.  

 

It is hamper time!

Followed our successful pilot project last year, JCI Eastern once again partners with UnitingCare, Burwood Centre this November to deliver another Hampers in Action program. JCI Eastern is committing to donate 30 hampers this year to assist local families at risk.

To show your support for this heart-warming community hamper program, please email us today.

Always feel very excited when reading our monthly newsletter! Share our excitement, click here for the latest update from JCI Eastern!

MEDIA RELEASE: OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FUELLED THE SUCCESSFUL STATIONERY DRIVE

Junior Chamber International (JCI) Eastern member, Suzi Chen, was surprised by the generosity of the local community in supporting the recent stationery drive. “We were approached by a university honour society to run a stationery drive initiative to help remote Australian communities. Our chapter members have always been very much about communities, so we all agreed that this initiative was a good idea. We just did not expect the overwhelming support that we received for this event,” Ms Chen said.
   

The 2-week Stationery Drive in late August was a joint initiative by both JCI Eastern and Deakin Golden Key, an honour society based in Deakin University. The Stationery Drive urged people to donate new and pre-loved stationery, which were then donated to Children’s Charity Network to assist disadvantaged Indigenous children in remote Australian towns with their learning.  

 

Deakin Golden Key Vice President and Community Services Officer, Sarah Neil, spent hours sorting the donated items after the initiative ended and reported an astonishing number of donations received. “10,966. That's the total of major stationery items raised from the drive. If I also counted smaller items, the number of donations would be higher! I was in shock by this unprecedented success,” Miss Neil commented.

 

“We had the support from local schools, communities and businesses. They will be so thrilled to learn about the success of this stationery drive. In fact, one local schools was so keen about this initiative that they have asked if we could run it again in November,” JCI Eastern Chapter President, Ben Morris, added.

To get involved with JCI Eastern, a local chapter of the world-wide JCI network, click here.

Newsletter Update - September 2014 Edition

To read the latest newsletter from JCI Eastern, click here. To submit your article for the October edition, contact us via jcieastern@gmail.com.

Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Presentation

All good things come to an end and we finished our fabulous 6-week program on Saturday 6 September. It is with such a pride that our Art2Heart project team presented participation certificates to this year's students.

To read more, click here.

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We have discovered the world of QR codes. Introducing JCI Eastern's very first QR code. Now you use this QR code when you wish to share JCI Eastern's Blog with others.

Art2Heart 2014: Felting

Students from our Art2Heart project entered the colourful world of felting on Saturday 30 August when the brilliant textile artist, Jessie Bleakley, charmed us away with her energetic and exciting workshop.

To read more about this felting Art2Heart workshop, please click here.

Art2Heart 2014: Glass Art

By popular demand, Kirsten and Garey from Spirit of Glass once again joined our Art2Heart project on Saturday 23 August to teach us the art of working with glass . To read more about JCI Eastern's Art2Heart project, click the link below.

Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Art2Heart 2014: Glass Art

Art2Heart 2014: Cartooning

You think you cannot draw? Think again! You think cartooning is not for everyone? Well, then you have not met our superb award-winning cartoon artist, Dave Gibb.

To find out what our Art2Heart students learned at a recent cartooning workshop, click here.

JCI Eastern Newsletter - August Edition

Join us this month in delivering community-based projects and learn more about the JCI movement. To read our August newsletter, please click the link below: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a296471619990f3ec09f08b93&id=bdd10f9357&e=458a1bec4d.

Preview: Cartoon Art Workshop on 16 August 2014

Want to have a preview of our next Art2Heart session? Here it is, the fun and interesting cartoon art session by Dave Gibb.

Go to Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Preview: Cartoon Art Workshop on 16 August 2014 to read more.

Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Lead-light Glass Art

Our Jaycee Hall was filled with excitement on Saturday 9 August when our Chapter President and acting-workshop leader, Ben Morris, ran the very first art session. Click here to read more about the session: Art2Heart by JCI Eastern: Art2Heart 2014: Lead-light Glass Art.

A Call to Action: Stationery Drive