PilotBrought to us
After-school space for young people
A supervised place for high-school students to do homework and be around each other two afternoons a week, run by parents from the community.
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Eritrean Muslim Collective
You bring the idea.
We help you build it.
A collective for Eritrean Muslims in Australia. Nobody should have to start an organisation from scratch to act on something they care about — so we give you the framework, the workshops and the people, and the work stays yours.
How it works
Three steps, and the first one is a conversation.
Bring us the idea
Something you have noticed, or something you have wanted to try. It does not need to be worked out — most arrive as a complaint.
We help you shape it
A workshop, the framework we use ourselves, introductions to organisations already working nearby, and people who will volunteer alongside you.
You run a pilot
Something small and real, with a date on it. If it works, we help it grow into something that keeps going — under your name, not ours.
Why a collective for Eritrean Muslims
The Eritrean community in Australia is well served by organisations that speak to it as a whole, and we are not duplicating that. But settling in, raising teenagers, finding work, ageing — most of it is not religious at its core, and none of it is separable from faith either. We build that perspective into a program from the start rather than adding it at the end.
How this startedWe would rather collaborate than compete
Where an organisation already exists and does something well, the useful thing we can do is send people to it. Our community directory lists Eritrean Muslim organisations, mosques and services around Australia — including plenty we have nothing to do with — because somebody new to a city should be able to find out what is already here.
Browse the community directoryWhat is under way
Every one of these started as somebody's idea. The board shows how far along each is, honestly.
PlanningAn EMC pilot
Help navigating services
A small trained group who sit with people through Centrelink, housing and school paperwork — and who know which service to send somebody to when it is not us.
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IdeaBrought to us
Community kitchen
A shared kitchen night where people cook together and take meals home — raised as a way for older members and new arrivals to meet without it being an event you have to be invited to.
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Coming up
All eventsMelbourne — address sent on registration
Monthly community gathering
An open evening. No agenda, no presentation — a chance to meet the people behind the projects and say what you think is missing.
Community room, Melbourne — address sent on registration
From idea to pilot: a hands-on workshop
Bring something you want to try. You leave with a one-page plan, a first step, and people who have agreed to help with it.
Latest
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The Eritrean Muslim Collective is starting up
It started as a conference. What was missing was everything that should have happened next — so we built it: a place to bring an idea and get help turning it into something real.
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What came out of the first idea workshop
An example post showing how a workshop write-up reads: what was discussed, what people committed to, and where the material ended up.
Read storyHave you noticed something that needs doing?
You do not need a plan, a committee or a name for it. Tell us what you have seen and we will work out the rest together.