ECCQ Members Meeting - Celebrating Multicultural Queensland

August is Multicultural Queensland Month and we want to celebrate with you!

Throughout August each year we celebrate our diversity, recognising the benefits to Queensland of the many backgrounds, skills and experiences that make up who we are.

This year, you’re invited to join us for an evening of storytelling and showcasing amazing multicultural Queenslanders who are putting inclusion into action.

We have a great line up of speakers who are pioneering what it means to be multicultural in Queensland.

We know that all our members and communities are amazing and doing great things and we want to hear all about them. The meeting will have an open mic opportunity to hear from you. Share your stories, tell us what you’re doing and together we will celebrate multicultural Queensland.

Our speakers include:

Christian Nduwimana, co-founder of Mental Health Taskforce Inc. (MHT) which, among other things, provides free mental health training to community leaders, to raise awareness around encouraging multicultural communities to implement community-led preventative mechanisms.
Christian is a Burundi born former refugee who has made Queensland his home. Before fleeing Burundi Christian was studying medicine and coordinating chronic disease prevention initiative for the local community. After settling in Australia, he completed a diploma in nursing, while studying English. Since then, he has also completed a biomedical science degree at UQ.

Solange Lipcin, founder of LatinOz, a cultural immersion program that fosters multicultural, multilingual identities and the preservation of the Latin American cultural heritage and language for future generations.
Solange was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has an educational background in Arts, Education and Community Services. She is the co-founder and Director of LatinOz, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to build stronger community bonds to enrich a multicultural Australia by bringing the Latin American community together and providing them with opportunities to promote a sense of belonging and connection.

More speakers yet to be announced!