PAWA Annual Report 2009 - 2010

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ASSOCIATIONPAKIS

F WESTERN AUSANRALIA INC

Annual Report

2009 -2010

by

Dr. Zarrin S Siddiqui

President


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ROADMAP

2009 - 2010

From the Presidents desk

It gives me immense pleasure on

behalf of the Executive Committee to

present this annual report. As you

will see that there have been some

major achievements during the year.

These could have not been possible

without the hard work of this

Committee who were all working full

time except Ayaz Qaiser who is a fulltime postgraduate student. Our

major achievements include an

increase in membership (50%) and

receiving grants for which our

success rate was 50%.We have tried

our best to run the organization in a

better and structured way with a

roadmap that helped us in

maintaining our focus. PAWA News

and many another initiatives have

been undertaken. With an increasein number of Pakistani families

migrating to WA one of the

challenges is a proper office which

may be an initiative that next EC

needs to consider. Personally for me

leading PAWA was a challenge and

thanks to all who offered their

valuable advice and cooperation.

Ramdas of ECCWA and Vilma of

WoW were two of many mentors

who deserved my special thanks.

Finally may I wish my profound

gratitude to every member of the

Executive committee along with their

spouses and family members

specifically and members of PAWA in

general for their tremendous support

and continued dedication and

commitment. Last but not least

thanks are due to my family

members here and in Pakistan for

their support and valuablesuggestions.

Zarrin Siddiqui

Our roadmap which can be used as a

framework for new Committee andother emerging organisations comprised

of following major areas for action.

1. Participation and promotion ofcommunity members

2. Use of Web 2.0 technologies3. Collaborations with state and

national organisations in

Australia and Pakistan

Participation and Promotion of

Community members

Australia is one of the few countries in

the world where there is no dearth of

opportunities if someone is willing to

contribute to active citizenship. We

facilitated this process by disseminating

the information and assisting the

community members as and when

required. There is always an event or anopportunity for our community

members to participate and be

recognised for their contribution and we

ensured that in doing so our executive

committee members take a back seat.

We also acknowledged the fact that

individuals in their own capacity can

actively nominate or promote someone

whose efforts and services need to berecognised. Our roadmap for the year

had a major emphasis on promoting the

different talents that our community

members have in the field of literature

and creative arts.

Use of Web 2.00 technologies

In the current era of globalisation where

world is now termed as a global village

use of social networking tools is of

essential importance for our survival.

PAWA has its own facebook group

which currently has one third of

members enrolled. Our vision for theyear was to encourage the use of social

networking specially for our senior

members who sometimes feel isolated.

Collaborations with state and national

organisations in Australia and Pakistan

At the community level within WA there

is one more active group that is

APNAPAN established by Pakistanis at

UWA in 2008 and was formally

inaugurated by His Excellency Jalil Abbas

Jilani. PAWA collaborated with

APNAPAN on different projects including

language fair at University of Western

Australia.

At state level there are two

organisations Ethnic Communities

Council of WA (ECCWA) and Australian

Asian Association (AAA). PAWA ismember of both organisations and the

President of PAWA is currently on the

management committee of ECCWA. An

invitation from Sikh Association of WA

regarding participation in Dementia

project is also accepted by the Executive

Committee in their last meeting.

Among national organisations Network

of Immigrant and Refugee Women ofAustralia (NIRWA) is a newly established

group to promote active participation of

refugee and migrant women and the

President of PAWA is one of the founding

members on NIRWA Council. We have

also welcomed Australian Federation of

Pakistani Organisations and decided to

join the Federation

Lastly we have tried to keep our

roadmap for PAWA simple and

straightforward rather than trying to

establish objectives that are hard to

achieve within the timeframe allocated.


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Events 2009 - 2010

EVENTS 2009 - 2010

1. Independence Day2. Farewell to Mr. Abdullah Khan3. Opportunities for Research in

Higher Education

4. Eidul Fitr Barbecue5. UWA Language Fair6. Eid ul Azha Barbecue7. Active Family Challenge8. Australia Day9. Waterworks Week10. Pakistan Day11. Community Partnership

Program:Aged care

12. Community PartnershipProgram :Alzheimers diseases

13. Mushaira and Book launch14. Members Dinner at AGM

In all there were thirteen events held during the tenure of this

Committee. When deciding upon the events we took care of three

aspects

a. Events are held at different venues.b. Events must cater for all age groupsc. Wherever possible collaborations between various

organizations be encouraged to get a wider participation.

Hence our events were scattered around different suburbs

including, Booragoon, North Perth, Crawley, Stirling, Mulaloo,

Morley Rivervale etc.

While the two musical functions gathered most of the

participants (more than 300 in each) the active family

challenge was unique in the sense that it has equal number of

participants from non Pakistani background and catered for

high school students and the young couples.

On the other hand two events held under community

partnership program in collaboration with Australian AsianHouse focused on aged care services and other issues . These

attracted senior members and so was the Mushaira which

attracted a totally different group. Kids were more at ease

during barbecues where they can play and make as much

noise as they can. Through these programs we were also able

to discover talented members in various fields of performing

arts etc. All the participants in all programs performed

voluntarily and the association did not incur any charges.

There are no words that could offer our in-depth gratitude for

their offering their time and homes for rehearsals.

Australia Day in Pakistan

Running consecutively for second year this event

is our one big achievement that I personally feelproud of. This is an excellent opportunity to

bring two cities close together and work

collaboratively on projects that can serve for

betterment of Pakistan a country facing multiple

challenges on multiple fronts.

While last year we visited Pediatrics unit, Civil

Hospital, Karachi, this year Child Health

Education Foundation was the main focus. This

foundation is running various projects across

Pakistan and will benefit immensely from both

physical and human resources.

Wherever you are in Pakistan you will find a

project run by this organization and may be able

to contribute in a number of ways.


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GRANTS

Received

Volunteer Grants 2009

Equipment bought

Media Projector Laminator Printer cum fax

Active Family Challenge Grant

Contributed partially towardsBowling Night

Community Partnership Program in

collaboration with Australian Asian House

Catering for two seminarsPending Outcome

Volunteer Grants 2010

Zakat

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam and

on the request of our community members

we made available list of credible non-

governmental organizations in Pakistan on

our website which may benefit from any

sort of support in terms of donations and

zakat. This work needs to be continued.

Contacting Members

With the existing email service available

through MSN hotmail it was very difficult

to send an email to all the members because

of limitations. With our new email account

using our web hosting service this task has

been made easier and more efficient. While

we did not use options for separate emailaccounts for the secretary and treasurer are

also available to be created.

Matters of Heart

The sad demise of Imran Sattar was a major blow to us as it

opened a whole myriad of actions to be taken. While the

executive committee members were there to fully support

the bereaved family of young engineer it was very heart

breaking to know that the viewing time at Sir Charles

Gairdener Hospital are from 9 5 pm only and even for that

one has to make an appointment on the day and cannot be

done beforehand.

Keeping in view the seriousness of situation we had to

intervene and request the Managing Director of the hospital.Thankfully the rule was relaxed within a couple of hours and

the family members who arrived after midnight were able to

go to hospital directly from the airport. I am very grateful to

Tony and the security guard at the mortuary who were not

merely present to help us but were truly empathic and did

their best to make family comfortable in their moments of

Grief. My personal thanks to them

Promoting Leadership

One of the key features of our events was to promote

leadership among members of the Executive committee and

other members hence the strategy we adopted was to let a

member of Executive committee lead the organization of an

event and rest cooperate as and when required.

This again helped us in sharing the workload efficiently and the

talents of the Committee members keep us surprising all the

time.

The two major musical events were led by Sumair Sajjad,

Mushaira and Book launch by Nazar Khan , Farewell to Abdullah

Khan and Series of Community Partnership Program was

coordinated by Mohammed Zaki.

Ayaz Qaiser was the lead for the reception with Pakistan Cricket

Team which could not be conceptualized because of unforeseen

circumstances. Active Family Challenge Bowling Night and

Australia Day event in Pakistan was coordinated by a young

volunteer Rida Ahmed. Dr. Farah Adeeb assumed the

responsibility of write ups. Nizamuddin assumed the catering

responsibilities and always ended up finding the best deals for

us as well as general supervision.


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Promoting Community

A number of Pakistani migrants have been

involved in serving the community or even

achieving excellence within their own

professions. Sadiq Buxs nomination for an

award for the contribution to

multiculturalism in Australia and Mrs. Shakila

Khans nomination for the International

Womens Day Award was part of

acknowledging their contribution.

We also decided to launch our own PAWA

star program as an annual event withinaugural event to be coincided with the visit

of Foreign Minister of Pakistans visit to

Perth. However this program was postponed

at last moment and could not be launched.

FEDERATION OF PAKISTANI ORGANISATIONS

IN AUSTRALIA

At the national level in Australia this has

been a major breakthrough and PAWA is

proud to be part of the Federation. We arecurrently working on finalization of the bye

laws and hope to finalise it at the official

meeting in Canberra.

Communications

PAWA NEWS

A fortnightly newsletter was mailed to all members and

those who have registered their expression of interest

to receive updates electronically. This is one of our

major success stories of the year with not a single issue

being missed. The objective of this newsletter was to

keep the Pakistani community updated of whats

happening in Australia in community sector.

This newsletter was forwarded to all members of Ethnic

Communities council of Western Australia which

provided us a major platform to enhance the image of

our organization.

From the members feedback it was widely appreciated

and from the Executive Community perspective we did

not miss a single issue during our tenure. All past issues

of PAWA news are available at PAWAs website.

Facebook

The Associations presence on facebook was another

widely appreciated fact by members specially from

younger group as it linked everyone from and outside

Australia. For someone to find information about

visiting, migrating or studying in Western Australia it

became their first point of contact. To date we have

ninety- six members subscribing to the PAWA facebook.

We also discouraged use of frequent emails to members

so in time of emergency the facebook group

contributed immensely for an immediate delivery of a

specific news to members and response was always

received.

Pak Avaaz and Sadaewatan are two major

newspapers where we have regularly contributed and

spread news about PAWA activities.

Moving forward

In 2008 Mr. Arif Sikander then President of

PAWA has set a tradition of conducting

elections as soon as the financial term is

over. Keeping this tradition alive this is thethird year in running that the PAWA

elections are being held within two weeks

of the end of financial year.

Membership Cards

Unfortunately we could not locate who was

the driving force behind printing a stack of

membership cards but these cards are now

being utilized and all paid members are

issued a membership card.

ABN Number

The Association also has an ABN number

allocated to it and is registered for GST so

from Ist July 2010 all subscriptions will incur

GST.


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Acknowledgments on behalf of Executive Committee

1. HE Fauzia Nasreen High Commissioner of Pakistan in Australia (2009 to date)2. HE Jalil Abbas Jilani, High Commissioner of Pakistan in Australia (2009)3. APNAPAN , Pakistani Student Association at UWA4. Ethnic Communities Council of WA5. Australian Asian Association6. Pak Avaaz newspaper from Melbourne7. Sadaewatan newspaper from Sydney8. SBS Radio Urdu Service9. Woodlinks10.Faiz Khan11.Zahid Ali

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PAWA Executive Committee 2009 - 2010: L to R Farah Adeeb, Zarrin

Siddiqui, Nazar Khan, Zaki Mohammad, Sumair Sajjad, Nizamuddin.

Missing: Ayaz Qaiser

PAWA Annual Report 2009 - 2010

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