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Project Leader Jimena Espitia says there will be a tribute for Bangladeshi student Sifat at the Darwin Kindness Festival with candles at the lagoon and a minute silence · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: The top ends. The biggest student let events, The Kindness
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  Speaker 1: Festival is returning for a third year, putting the territories
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  Speaker 1: diverse and welcoming lifestyle on display. The festival is organized
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  Speaker 1: by local not for profit the Kindness Shake and he's
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  Speaker 1: going to see performances, food, games and stalls take over
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  Speaker 1: the Darwin waterfront on the twenty fourth of June. And
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  Speaker 1: joining me on the line to tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more is international Student of the Year and Kindness
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  Speaker 1: Festival project leader Hermina Espedia. Good morning to you, Hermina.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show, Hermina. What can
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  Speaker 1: people expect at the festival this year?
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  Speaker 2: So okay, this year the fest will be an a
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  Speaker 2: plastic display for all the community across in Darwin. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have food, bend or activities, games but
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  Speaker 2: this year and highlights we have firewards at a PM.
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  Speaker 2: And also we have been working very closely with the
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  Speaker 2: Bangladesh community where it will be a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge see fast life where we have been working closely
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  Speaker 2: with the family and the Tuan Association to perform a
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  Speaker 2: multi cultural parade, Minutes of Silence and candles of the lagoons.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is going to be a really
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing to do candles in the lagoon as well.
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  Speaker 1: One of his family told you Hermina in terms of
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  Speaker 1: of really wanting to be part of this and wanting
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that he is honored.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure that every single international assurance
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  Speaker 3: healing the inventor can be welcome, supported and.
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  Speaker 2: So also we want to showcase and highlight the important
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  Speaker 2: contribution of international actudents to the NT society, but also
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  Speaker 2: to make sure how the international students are an integral
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  Speaker 2: part of the territory community when all of us we
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  Speaker 2: make our home more debt and more bigrand a place
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  Speaker 2: to live.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that given what has happened this year,
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  Speaker 1: the festival is more important than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the festival is growing as a international
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  Speaker 2: committee is growing. We have been in the last two
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  Speaker 2: years and before the two years been greatly supported for
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  Speaker 2: everybody and this year will be a fantastic display by
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  Speaker 2: the new students. This year has been one of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest intakes of international atudents arriving to the territory, which
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  Speaker 2: brings new blood. Let's to think in that way to
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  Speaker 2: the festival as well, and.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what can people you know when they are
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  Speaker 1: going to attend the festival, there's going to be beautiful food
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  Speaker 1: on off of there's going to be so much happening.
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  Speaker 1: What else can I expect?
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to have effectively we're gonna have food
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  Speaker 2: from different countries, from the Thai community, from Nepal, food
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  Speaker 2: as well from here Australia. But also we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: the Pinto area where we're gonna have dogs, different activities
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  Speaker 2: for the kids, for the family. We're gonna have performance
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  Speaker 2: and more than fiftyfferent performance will be on a stage
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  Speaker 2: for that night. We additional, we have all the most
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  Speaker 2: different cultural communities showcasing their activity. Is the products among
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  Speaker 2: the international actudents?
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  Speaker 1: Am I not for anybody listening this morning who's not
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the Kindness Shake as well? Can you explain
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  Speaker 1: to us exactly what the Kindness Shake is all about?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you know it is all part of the festival
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  Speaker 1: and certainly the organizational side, but tell me a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about the Kindness Shake.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, a kind of shake as organization we was born
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty when was the COVID during the pandemic
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  Speaker 2: and with international agents were struggling financially and socially. We
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  Speaker 2: came together the group we're starting to support the students
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  Speaker 2: to giving away free menus to everybody in needs and
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  Speaker 2: we were able to give more than six thousand meals
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  Speaker 2: through the twenty twenty twenty twenty one and the local
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  Speaker 2: business as well. They were strongly with us supporting the
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  Speaker 2: students in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really gad nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was a fantastic and that's a really hard
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  Speaker 2: moment when the students need the support. We were able
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  Speaker 2: to came out all together and then additional to the mills,
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  Speaker 2: in the last three years we have been delivering different
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  Speaker 2: free programs to support the students, focusing well being, to
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  Speaker 2: strength their connection with the local community and both their
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  Speaker 2: employability and skills. So we have a well all programs
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  Speaker 2: like international students out when the new students they can
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  Speaker 2: understand about the resilience and the history about Darwin engage
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  Speaker 2: as well with la people. We have for example a
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  Speaker 2: Stilub where the program is focused to showcase the employability
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  Speaker 2: still that the students they bring to the territories, but
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  Speaker 2: also how they can gain a new one and all
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  Speaker 2: the location providers and affilt part of this project.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hammiah, I really appreciate you having a chat with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning. Just very quickly. If there are people
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  Speaker 1: listening wondering whether they can find out a bit more
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  Speaker 1: about the Kindness Shake or the Kindness Festival, where should
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  Speaker 1: they head to?
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  Speaker 2: And we sure we can go to the Kindness Shake website.
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  Speaker 2: We have as well our Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of Shake Festival.
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  Speaker 2: We have as well our Facebook page. We can as
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  Speaker 2: well LinkedIn we are or not in all the networlds.
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  Speaker 2: Laflow available talking about the festival and afuel, about the
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  Speaker 2: programs and about our origin as organizations.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hammiah, I really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for having a chat with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that the event goes wonderfully. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for your time.
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  Speaker 2: It will be amazing for sure.
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  Speaker 3: It will have a lovely day.
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  Speaker 1: You two