You can still purchase your limited-edition Red AIME Hoodie and help us celebrate the inaugural year of AIME National Hoodie Day. While the official launch was on 21 July 2010 we would like to see more and more people getting on board with this event by putting on a Red AIME Hoodie and saying to the next generation who are stepping up with AIME: 'We will walk with you'.
21 July was an amazing day and we have the photos to prove it! Thank you for the wonderful support we received from all sectors of the Australian community. Let's up-size from AIME National Hoodie DAY to AIME National Hoodie YEAR! Get your Red AIME Hoodie nowGet your Red AIME Hoodie now.
AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS MENTORING EXPERIENCE
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) is a mentoring program that partners university students in a one-on-one relationship with Indigenous high school students. The ultimate goal of AIME is to see all their Indigenous students finish school at the same rate as their fellow Australians.
AIME was founded in 2005, with 25 uni students working together with 25 Indigenous Year 9 students in Redfern. In 2010, AIME is now working with 1000 Indigenous high school students across the East Coast of Australia, with over 1000 university students lining up to get a chance to be involved as a Mentor.
2010 NSW Young Australian of the Year, AIME CEO and Founder, Jack Manning Bancroft, with his team of young people and volunteers, are living the Australian ideal of one mate helping another.
The 2010 AIME National Hoodie Day saw Ian Thorpe, Yolanda Be Cool, Wendell Sailor, Andrew Forrest, Adam Spencer, Libby Trickett, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, The Waratahs, our event partners and hundreds of Australians step up to get involved with AIME. We thank you all for your support and for making the inaugural AIME National Hoodie such a massive success.
You can still support us by buying a limited-edition, for this year only, Red AIME Hoodie. You might also like to support us in other ways through volunteering your time, making a donation, or registering your interest in participating in the 2011 AIME National Hoodie Day event: as an individual or group of friends, or a small or major partner.
We thank all of our event partners - your participation is helping AIME to put more and more Mentors on the ground to support Indigenous kids to complete high school at the same rate as their fellow Australians.
MAJOR EVENT PARTNERS
Major Event Partners can confirm their company's commitment to walk with the next generation of Australians who are stepping up with AIME, by making a $10,000 donation to AIME.
Major Event Partners can confirm their company's commitment to walk with the next generation of Australians who are stepping up with AIME, by making a $10,000 donation to AIME.
This will secure 100 Red AIME Hoodies for your staff to wear proudly, as ambassadors, on AIME National Hoodie Day, 21 July 2010, as a symbol of their support, belief, and willingness to back those working on the ground to help these kids succeed.
Joining AIME National Hoodie Day will also provide a safe arena for your staff to engage with Indigenous Australia and grow from the experience.
Small Businesses can stand behind the next generation of Australians by making a contribution of $200 or more. For every $100 donation you will receive a Red AIME Hoodie.
Small Businesses can stand behind the next generation of Australians by making a contribution of $200 or more. For every $100 donation you will receive a Red AIME Hoodie.
That means even if your company only has two people you will still be able to don the AIME Hoodie and join the journey. The goal is to have all your staff pull on a Hoodie on 21 July 2010 and show your clients and customers that you believe in these kids the way that we do here at AIME.
As with the Major Event Partners, come July 21 when that Hoodie goes on you will become ambassadors within your community for AIME National Hoodie Day and everything it stands for.
This is also a perfect opportunity for schools to get involved. AIME is based on the idea of young people working for young people, and students are never too young to learn about helping others.
AIME National Hoodie Day is also a perfect opportunity for schools to get involved. Our organisation is based on the idea of young people working for young people, and students are never too young to learn about helping others.
The attached Schools Challenge outline gives Principals, Teachers and Schools a starting point for kicking off the conversation about Indigenous education within your school, and also has some ideas of how this project ties in with both the Primary and Secondary curriculum.
Get your teachers, principal and school leaders into a Red AIME Hoodie for the day, join the journey.
Individual Australians are not left out of getting involved! You too can donate to AIME and be a part of creating change in young Indigenous kids' lives.
Individual Australians are not left out of getting involved! You too can donate to AIME and be a part of creating change in young Indigenous kids' lives.
If you donate $100 you will also receive a Red AIME Hoodie to wear on 21 July 2010. Kick it on July 21 in your Hoodie around your town with pride that you will be walking with thousands of others across the nation on AIME National Hoodie Day.
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WHAT SORT OF LIBRARY IS THIS?
AIME will continue to add resources to this interactive library, so you can engage with Indigenous Australia in all sorts of new ways. We will be adding more of everything over the coming months. And we will direct you to the websites that we find most interesting, informative and user friendly.
We will also keep adding to our bank of personal stories, which people have so generously given us to share. We encourage everyone to utilise this Library to learn and grow, and to embrace the connected history that we all share as Australians today.
For an introduction to the Library from AIME's CEO, Jack Manning Bancroft, please click here.
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
Welcome to a new kind of Library, Doris ain't here to check out your books, but we hope this will kick off a learning journey for you that makes you remember what it was like reading your first Mr Men or Tintin Book.
We see this Library reaching two audiences:
For Indigenous Australians and for Teachers, Parents and Community Workers working with Indigenous kids. We hope you can take inspiration from some of the Stronger Smarter clips in particular. And for those teachers out there, we are sharing some of our AIME session material for the first time and hope you can use it to engage your students no matter where you live.
For those Australians coming to Indigenous Australia for the first time, welcome. We hope, as with everything AIME, that you feel this is a safe space for you.
We hope this is the beginning of a wonderfully rich journey for you. We have seen university students, who have never met an Indigenous person before AIME, connect with Indigenous Australia and embrace their development as an Australian by engaging and feeling a part of the oldest surviving continuous culture in the world.
We hope you will join us on a journey that, together, will see us grow our concept of what it means to be Australian. For all Australians, we can connect with our Indigenous brothers and sisters and in doing so, embrace an Australian history that moves way past the 200-odd years and into the annals of history - in doing this we go from being seen as a young country to one of the oldest and richest in the world.
Enjoy the journey and if you want to share your stories or some resources through the AIME NHD Library please email your suggestions to info@nationalhoodieday.com
Designed by Harold Thomas, a Luritja man from Central Australia and created as a symbol of unity and national identity for Aboriginal people during the Land Rights movement of the early 1970s.
Gary Foley took the Flag to the East Coast where it was promoted and eventually recognised as the official flag of the Australian Aboriginal people.
12 July 1971 - The Flag was first flown at Victoria Square in Adelaide on National Aborigines Day.
1972 - Chosen as the official flag for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
1995 - Proclaimed as an official 'Flag of Australia' under section 5 of the Flags Act 1953.
1997 - Harold Thomas was recognised as the author of the artistic work under the Copyright Act 1968.
The symbolic meaning of the flag colours (as stated by Harold Thomas) are:
Black: Aboriginal people of Australia
Red: The red earth, the red ochre and a spiritual relation to the land
Yellow: The Sun, the giver of life and protector
HISTORY OF THE TORRES STRAIT ISLAND FLAG
Created as a symbol of unity and identity for Torres Strait Islander peoples and designed by the late Bernard Namok, a 15 year old school student from Thursday Island.
Jan 1992 - Selected from entries in the Cultural Revival Workshop design competition organised by The Islands Co-ordinating Council. Design chosen for its simplicity which allowed each community to incorporate their emblem for local identification.
Jun 1992 - Recognised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and given equal prominence with the Aboriginal Flag.
Jul 1995 - Recognised by the Australian Government as an official 'Flag of Australia' under the Flags Act 1953.
Each part of the Flag is designed to represent something about Torres Strait Island culture:
Green: Land
Blue: Sea
White: Peace
Black: Indigenous peoples
Dhari (headdress): Torres Strait Island people
Five Pointed Star: 5 major Island groups. Also represents navigation, as a symbol of the seafaring culture of the Torres Strait.
HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG
1901 - Commonwealth Blue Ensign selected from over 30,000 designs submitted in a public competition.
1901 - Australian Flag comes into being after the Federation of the Australian states.
1903 - Australian Flag gazetted.
1909 - Seventh point added to the Commonwealth Star.
1953 - Adopted as the definitive Australian flag in the Flags Act.
1954 - Australian Flag given Royal assent.
The Australian Flag:
Is based on the Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom
Is twice as long as it is wide
Consists of a dark blue field that can be notionally divided into four quadrants
Has a different motif in each of the upper and lower hoist quadrants and the remaining two quadrants of the fly share another different constellation motif
The present Australian Flag can be considered to consist of three main elements:
The Union Jack: denoting Australia's historical links with Great Britain. The Union Jack itself is composed of red and white intersecting and overlayed vertical and diagonal crosses on a blue background.
The Southern Cross: consists of five stars in a more or less kite-like pattern - Alpha Crucis (7-point), Beta Crucis (7-point), Gamma Crucis (7-point), Delta Crucis (7-point) and the smaller Epsilon Crucis (5-point). The outer diameter of each of the 4 major stars is 1/7 the width of the fly and the inner diameter is 4/9 outer diameter; the diameter of Epsilon Crucis is 1/12 the width of the fly and the inner diameter is 4/9 the outer diameter. The constellation of the Southern Cross is a significant navigational feature of the southern hemisphere, strongly places Australia geographically and has been associated with the continent since its earliest days.
The Commonwealth Star (or Star of Federation): has seven points to denote the six states and the combined territories of the Commonwealth. The seventh point was added in 1909.
The 2010 range of limited-edition Red AIME Hoodies will be available from 21 July until they are sold out.
Don't miss your chance to be part of the inaugural year for AIME National Hoodie Day. Next year the colour will change and one lucky AIME kid will design the Hoodie each year from 2011 onwards.
2010 will be your only chance to grab a historic limited-edition Red AIME Hoodie to help Indigenous kids finish school at the same rate as their fellow Australians.
