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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 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