community development officer at the Ethnic Council of Shepparton – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

Day and night news of the escalating atrocities committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan fills Goulburn Valley Afghan community members with dread, as they search desperately and, mostly fruitlessly, for ways to help loved ones trapped within the landlocked country’s borders.

	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.