social
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Skills for life
Kyneton Community and Learning Centre in conjunction with the Social Foundry and This Farm Needs A Farmer are rolling out a third round of their very successful ‘Skills for Life’ program. They are now adding an agriculture stream to the program, as well as offering more places in the sought-after hospitality course. It will launch…
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Finishing the homeless problem
With one Castlemaine agency advocating tiny houses as a means to help solve homelessness, local government leaders on Friday lunched with an international social housing expert to hear about how Finland has all but eradicated rough sleeping. Finnish-based Juhah Kaakinen is chief executive of the Y-Foundation, which provides 16,300 permanent low-cost flats to homeless people…