MULTICULTURAL Affairs Minister Robin Scott was a welcome guest at River Gum Primary School in Hampton Park on Wednesday.
The minister visited the school along with Narre Warren South MP Judith Graley to meet with students and teachers, and the team behind the Hampton Park Women’s Friendship Cafe.
Many of the women from the friendship cafe, currently based in a portable facility at River Gum Primary, are new to Australia, speak little or no English and have very few opportunities to interact with the local community.
The school and the friendship cafe are currently investigating the possibility of converting an unused indoor swimming pool on the school grounds into a playgroup and preschool facility, and wanted to discuss this with Mr Scott on Wednesday.
It’s understood River Gum Primary is planning to put in an application to build the estimated $600,000 pre-school facility where the old swimming pool used to be.
Through the friendship cafe the women take English lessons, learn to drive, access counselling, and attend information sessions on their legal rights.
