Osman Mohamed moved to Australia as a refugee seven years ago and despite holding a degree from an Australian university has never been able to land a job.The Victorian Government is funding a private organisation to employ community members in public-facing health roles
Cohealth has received funding to employ locals and residents in Melbourne's public housing towers to skill up residents, some of whom will gain employment experience for the first time in decades. "Public housing is there to cater for people with an economic disadvantage but once you are in the system it's really hard to exit the system," Ms Panza said.Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from November 13 with our coronavirus blog.Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute executive director Michael Fotheringham said the initiative was something other states would be keeping an eye on.
Chris Mason from the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne said the funding was an example of how the Victorian Government was leading the country in supporting social enterprises. "There's evidence of a sea-change in how we think about the delivery of these services to our fellow citizens," he said. "Between then and now it would have exponentially grown. Social procurement encourages new social enterprises and the younger generation are taking social enterprises extremely seriously and we are seeing so much enthusiasm from people who want to do it.""We don't have a national social enterprise strategy."
Osman said while his role has meant the community have been able to better understand the pandemic and changing restrictions, he's afraid public housing tenants will be forgotten again when coronavirus is no longer a threat.
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