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Speaker 2: We've had forty local community members come and join us

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Speaker 1: Tell me about Northeast Community House. How long's it been here?

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Speaker 1: What else do you do here? I mean you mentioned

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Speaker 2: Okay, So this is a pretty unique center in that

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Speaker 2: we provide opportunities. We do the weekly craft program, social

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Speaker 1: And you must meet so many different people.

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Speaker 2: There's too many to count. There really is too many

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Speaker 2: And it's really hard to put into words quantify exactly

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Speaker 1: How many volunteers here? I mean there are people doing

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Speaker 2: Here, Oh we do. We have over thirty registered volunteers

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Speaker 1: You'd be calling for more than people in the community.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, and different things, different events. People can

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Speaker 2: Not here anyway. We want people to volunteer with us

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Speaker 1: And pair and no age on that, no, no limitations

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Speaker 2: You know, We've got volunteers from as young as fourteen

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Speaker 1: Goodness, yeah, put on her Yeah, Yeah, fantastic, look great

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming. We are so thrilled

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Ferrisando, who is the manager of the Northeast

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Speaker 1: let's meet some of the volunteers here at the Northeast

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Speaker 1: Community House. Michelle, your first, tell me about your work here.

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: Occasionally they have me in and I'm doing crafting and

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Speaker 4: all sorts of different events for them because I'm an artist.

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Speaker 4: So we started off with me doing the young Bombing group,

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Speaker 1: Does that take up much of your time being a volunteer.

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Speaker 4: It's part of what I do as an artist, and

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Speaker 4: getting some work through doing that activity with different councils

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Speaker 1: So it's very positive and also.

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Speaker 3: It teaches your things.

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Speaker 4: He teaches you about other people what they need to do,

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Speaker 1: What's your name.

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Speaker 3: My name is Betha and I'm from China.

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Speaker 5: I'm the community gardener here and helping under gardening Praanto

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Speaker 6: I love this community center.

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Speaker 3: What do you do here?

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Speaker 7: I volunteer here. I help out with the functions, set

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Speaker 7: I do Tuesdays of tasty toasties for anyone wants to

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Speaker 3: I'm here to make it for them, so.

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Speaker 7: Come and have a capa and a toasty with us.

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Speaker 7: But I help with volunteering and a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of functions.

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Speaker 1: You must enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: It's a good one place to be with a lot

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Speaker 1: Georgie, what do you do here?

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Speaker 3: I look after all of the admin. I've been here

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Speaker 8: I look after the website, the databases and reports, do

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Speaker 6: I'm not a volunteer here. I've got a friend who

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Speaker 1: What do you think of it?

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Speaker 6: It's great, it's mean, it's brings everyone together, and it's

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Speaker 6: just everybody's so friendly and everyone's just so happy to

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Speaker 6: it's a really cool poot.

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Speaker 1: You're here visiting today? Tell me what brings you here?

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Speaker 1: Why are you here?

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Speaker 5: I came today because my daughter that is fighting cancer

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Speaker 5: invited me to come with her.

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Speaker 1: This is for the biggest morning tea that's been so yes,

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Speaker 1: that's right, that's an important reason. Obviously, before I come

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Speaker 1: on their bus tips and we have a really good time.

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Speaker 2: I'm passionate about supporting anything to do with cancer and

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Speaker 2: heart disease. I like it here because the staff are

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Speaker 2: always welcome.

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Speaker 1: And what about you, sir, what brings you here today?

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Speaker 9: Well, my mother she passed away with cancer. I've been

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Speaker 9: with the community center here. Well, it's for the biggest

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Speaker 9: morning teeth and those support cancer.

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Speaker 1: Another of the volunteers is banned Aman and tell us

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Speaker 1: about what you do here.

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Speaker 5: I teach taichi for health. At the moment, I'm only

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Speaker 5: doing two to three classes a week. I was doing

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Speaker 5: about six. I've got a beautiful group of ladies and

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Speaker 5: a couple of guys that come along. It's just a

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Speaker 5: wonderful group. We all get on really well. It's not

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Speaker 5: only good for health and learning to keep a posture,

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Speaker 5: keep self grounded so we don't full flat on our

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Speaker 5: face at times as we get older. It's become a

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Speaker 5: really lovely like family. I've seen a change in everybody

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Speaker 5: as they've gone through and what they've achieved, So it's

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Speaker 2: Anyone can do it.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing that twenty thirty minutes I've been here, I've

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Speaker 1: found out about so many different activities that happen here.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it's incredible. This place has just been amazing, and

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Speaker 5: I've been here for close on to a years. I

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Speaker 5: suppose I just love it. I'm just so glad to

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Speaker 5: get back into tai chi and everyone. They can't not

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Speaker 5: for you, and they're so friendly and caring, so it's

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Speaker 5: just fantastic.

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Speaker 2: And all of these feels.

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Speaker 5: We're all crazy ladies, and it's great to see how

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Speaker 5: they progress, and.

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Speaker 1: They all look so wonderfully fit, and it must be

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Speaker 1: you know, unhealthy, lush. Yeah, how are you enjoying it?

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Speaker 2: I love my tai Chin, I love my tai chie girls.

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Speaker 9: We have a wonderful time and it's very healthy and

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Speaker 9: good for you, especially when years old.

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Speaker 1: As I am no, no, no, you will look no

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