Welcome to Uplate '08!
Every year, RMITV stocks up on Red Bull, V, and other assorted caffeinated beverages, and gets together for an ALL NIGHT LIVE TELETHON to support and raise funds for a worthy cause.
This year we have chosen the issue of Refugees… A call to remind the Melbourne folk that the issue is not closed and why!
We encourage our viewers to take a monent to consider the situation of Refugees around the world, and donate what they can to the Asylum Seeker's Recource Centre.
Visisting the Centre for the first time, the Executive Producers of Uplate '08 were overhelmed by the level of hard work, huge hearts, and much needed support of human rights we witnessed in staff and volunteers alike.
Truly an inspiration, the Asylum Seeker's Refuge Centre began in 2001 as a TAFE project, supporting refugees, many of whom are forbidden to find work or apply for basic welfare after reaching our shores and find themselves struggling to find basic food, shelter and health care.
The Centre has grown over the last seven years to provide Welfare, Advocacy, Community Development, a Foodbank, Community Meals, A Kid Zone, free access to Healthcare and Counciling and other Material Aid.
But even with this much progress, there is still an awfull lot of work to be done to see that victims or war, poverty and persecution find the support and respect they so desperately need, and the Asylum Seekers Recource Centre needs all the help it can get to continue with the fantastic work they are doing!
Please visit
the Asylum Seeker's Resource Centre website
for more information on the Asylum Seeker's Recource Centre, and please visit
Ourcommunity.com
if you would like to make a donation.
RMITV is a television community group that is dedicated to aiding students to make and produce their own content for Channel 31. Providing equipment, studio hours and support for new producers RMITV has over 300 volunteers and has given numerous members a leg up to the big stage.
