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Speaker 1: I saw this story yesterday and read a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about it, and it is fantastic to see that

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Speaker 1: a new cafe and opshop in Darwin, aiming to provide

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Speaker 1: a training space for special education students at Henbury's School

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Speaker 1: has opened now. The facilities are going to help students

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Speaker 1: develop skills in food and beverage preparation and customer service,

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Speaker 1: equipping them to the workforce. Now joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us a little bit more about the

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Speaker 1: initiative is the Henbri School Principal Sarah Corey. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Are you going yeah, really good? So great to have

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Speaker 1: you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for inviting me.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, tell us a little bit more about these new facilities.

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Speaker 3: Wow, they're at.

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Speaker 2: The Village shopping center in Casina and we have an

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Speaker 2: opportunity shop and write directly decided is our new cafe

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Speaker 2: and it's called Henbury Printing.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful. Paint a bit of a picture for us.

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Speaker 1: What does it all look like in.

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, it's actually the new facilities are actually just beautiful.

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Speaker 2: We've had BTC Constructions work with us to bring our

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Speaker 2: vision to life. Really but you know, it's been over

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Speaker 2: ten years in the making. You know, way back in

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Speaker 2: twenty ten, we started out at the Karma Shopping Center

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Speaker 2: just as an op shop, and this came out of just,

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Speaker 2: you know, off the cuff comment by Tim Wicks, one

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Speaker 2: of the senior teachers at the time, to the principal

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Speaker 2: at the Chime, Carolyn Edwards, and said, oh, look, you know,

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Speaker 2: we want to find some work training placements and work

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Speaker 2: experience for our students. And it was a little out there,

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Speaker 2: and he said, oh, why don't we just open our

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Speaker 2: own op shop? And Karen sort of thought about it

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Speaker 2: for a while, Oh, that might not be a bad idea, So,

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Speaker 2: you know, from community community generosity, we started out. So

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Speaker 2: we started out with the Karma Shopping Center and Lapira

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Speaker 2: owned a shop there that was empty, and then they

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Speaker 2: wanted that they needed that space back, and so then

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Speaker 2: we moved over to Baggott Road and then of course

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Speaker 2: that was the old Milner Shopping Center and they wanted

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Speaker 2: to close that down and build what they've got there now.

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Speaker 2: And so still one of our sessos at the time

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Speaker 2: found the space at Henry on Aralia. So we use

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Speaker 2: that for ten years and then in twenty nineteen. We

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Speaker 2: also got the building next door, which was the old

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Speaker 2: Surfli Saving building and then we turned that into a cafe. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and now we've made the big move this year to

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Speaker 2: the building shopping center because it's so much closer to

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Speaker 2: where Henbry School is. It's so much more accessible for

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Speaker 2: our students. Yeah, it wouldn't happen without our community. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're part of the community. Our people were able to

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Speaker 2: business and know what we're about about.

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Speaker 1: Good, So we talk us through how it's going to

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Speaker 1: benefit the students and prepare them for the workforce.

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Speaker 2: Well, every one of our students have their own individual goals,

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Speaker 2: so it might be around communication, or it might be

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Speaker 2: around building self confidence. But once we have this, they

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Speaker 2: see this as a real life work experience. So they

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Speaker 2: go there and they might start off really shy, but

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Speaker 2: they build their self confidence over time dealing with real customers, building.

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Speaker 3: Their work skills.

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Speaker 2: There are things like we run the Barista skill set,

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Speaker 2: so we put about twenty students.

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Speaker 3: Per year through that.

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Speaker 2: We had ties with CDU and run the Retail Certificate

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Speaker 2: one and two as well, So when they leave Embry School,

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Speaker 2: our students have all these skills. So then they can

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Speaker 2: move on to their future pathway that that's volunteer work,

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Speaker 2: whether that's paid employment, whether that's moving on to another

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Speaker 2: area out there, so that they're building these skills from

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Speaker 2: the time they join him by school. How incredible, amazing

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Speaker 2: and it's really exciting and.

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Speaker 1: It's it is fantastic because it is equipping young people

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Speaker 1: for the workforce or for whatever they choose to do

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Speaker 1: and giving them those skills today sort of undertake qualifications

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Speaker 1: and gain certificates and things like that as well, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: or how does how does it work?

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Speaker 2: From that perspective, they're a certain co award of our students,

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Speaker 2: depending on where they are in their learning journey, will

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Speaker 2: participate in the Brewster courses, in the.

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Speaker 3: Retail courses, but also Katie, we have.

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Speaker 2: Other things that happen at school that would work and

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Speaker 2: the sewing program as well, and students prepare gifts and that,

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Speaker 2: so we've got a gift gifts that are also sold

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Speaker 2: at the shop.

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Speaker 3: I reckon.

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Speaker 1: I've had a couple of those. I've had some nice

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Speaker 1: beautiful tetawels from there.

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Speaker 2: Actually photography too, some nice magnetcy frieze.

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Speaker 3: They go then also participate.

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Speaker 1: In that, Sarah I love this, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: think it's to give I need to. I would love

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Speaker 1: to come down for a coffee because I just think

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Speaker 1: it is so important that you know that our kids

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Speaker 1: have opportunities like this. It must you must end up

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Speaker 1: with the biggest smile on your face at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day when you see kids that are going

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Speaker 1: through that process of doing their training and maybe making

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Speaker 1: their first you know, SOI latte or cappuccino or something

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Speaker 1: for the first time as well.

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, you know I'm not a big cry that.

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Speaker 2: When I'm walking and when we've had our first soft opening,

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Speaker 2: you know, my eyes just well up. It's just so amazing.

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Speaker 2: And those students you can see the change in them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's really amazing.

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Speaker 1: How incredible. Now I understand as well that there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fundraising that when into actually making this

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the years there has been like we we've had

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Speaker 2: the Henry Corporate Luncheon for over ten years, the hel

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Speaker 2: It cost Henry Corporate Luncheon, and then we had a bit.

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Speaker 3: Of a hiatus because of COVID.

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Speaker 2: But we are running the Henry Corporate Luncheon on the

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Speaker 2: first of December this year, just letting all of our

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Speaker 2: listeners know it. And last year were actually the recipients

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Speaker 2: of the Darwin Airport Development Group golf fundraising day and

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Speaker 2: so there was a substantial amount of sixty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: from there. What has gone to outfitting the new shops

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Speaker 2: as well? And you know also cosh nt investments have

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Speaker 2: helped us along the way.

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Speaker 3: How wonderful denting out.

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Speaker 2: The shops as well. Yeah, you know, we couldn't do

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Speaker 2: this just by ourselves. We've had to rely on the

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Speaker 2: community support and still rely on community support to you

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Speaker 2: to help us keep this initiative alive.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, I've got emails and messages coming through. Hey, Katie,

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Speaker 1: can you ask exactly where the location is in the

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Speaker 1: kaz village people want to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you know the CA's village, it's not

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Speaker 2: Kazarina Square, Catherine a Village. It's a small and smaller

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Speaker 2: shopping center where the new McDonald's is. And if you

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Speaker 2: just walk in there, past past the past calls, you'll

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Speaker 2: fee it's Henry Training Precinct where we're loud and proud

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Speaker 2: and you won't miss us.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful now, Sarah, Before I let you go. What

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Speaker 1: has been the response from the students. How are the

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Speaker 1: students feel like?

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Speaker 2: They are just extremely proud? I mean if you heard

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Speaker 2: them talking yesterday when people are asking the question, they're

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Speaker 2: just beaming with pride. They know they're part of something

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Speaker 2: amazing and they really like sharing this story.

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Speaker 1: For you, as a principal, how important is it to

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Speaker 1: actually be able to you know, to give them an

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Speaker 1: opportunity like this.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's incredibly important. It's it's our work.

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Speaker 2: And I know it's the right work for what we're doing,

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Speaker 2: and our parents know as well, and they really appreciate

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Speaker 2: what we can provide.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: It is really wonderful. Well, Sarah, I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having a chat with me this morning. I know that

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Speaker 1: school principles are very busy, so thank you for taking

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Speaker 1: the time to have a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: It's not a problem, than Katie. Thank you.