The Canning Cultural Ambassadors program connects Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities and the City.

Cultural Ambassadors are recruited to play an engagement role with their communities. They help with information flow and feedback between their community and the City.

Cultural Ambassadors are individuals who have:

  • bilingual skills
  • live locally and/or
  • are embedded within a migrant community.

The program objectives are to:

  • increase the community's awareness of and access to City services
  • identify opportunities for the City to improve services and activities to better meet community needs
  • encourage dialogue on how to reduce barriers and increase participation
  • build intercultural understanding and relationships.

During the program, participants attend workshops to enhance their skills. The workshops align with their work as community leaders / connectors. They cover the development of project skills and upskilling on community engagement.

This program is run in partnership with Curtin University and Multicultural Futures. The program has also received support through Lotterywest.

Download the Canning Cultural Ambassador Program presentation (PDF 8MB) to learn more.

Cultural Ambassadors

Photograph of Amit

Amit Mehta

Cultural background: Indian

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Languages spoken: 
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Marathi
  • English
     
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Ankur Verma

Cultural background: Indian

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Languages spoken: 
  • Hindi
  • Marathi
  • English
     
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Astit Olszowy and Richard Olszowy

Cultural background: Indonesian and Polish

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Languages spoken: 
  • Indonesian
  • Dutch
  • English
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Balli Singh

Cultural background: Indian (Punjabi)

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Languages spoken: 
  • Punjabi
  • Hindi
  • English
     
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Elvie Yap

Cultural background: Chinese

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Languages spoken: 
  • Mandarin
  • Cantonese
  • Hokkien
  • Malay
  • English
     
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Hyejin Um (Grace)

Cultural background: Korean

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Languages spoken:
  • Korean
  • English
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Israa Sedda

Cultural background: Arabic-Muslim

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Languages spoken:
  • Arabic
  • English
     
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Jayaseelan Marimuthu

Cultural background: Malaysian

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Languages spoken:
  • Tamil
  • Malay
  • English
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Karunakaran Kutty Veluthakkal

Cultural background: Singaporean

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Languages spoken:
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Malayalam
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Kirtida Shah

Cultural background: Indian

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Languages spoken: 
  • Gujarati
  • Hindi
  • Marathi
  • English
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Luul Ibrahim

Cultural background: Somali

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Languages spoken: 
  • Somali
  • English
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Dr S Zaung Nau

Cultural background: Myanmar

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Languages spoken: 
  • Myanmar (Burmese)
  • English
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Dr Sadhana Bose

Cultural background: Indian

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Languages spoken:
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Sanskrit
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Santhye Subramaniam

Cultural background: Malaysian

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Languages spoken:
  • Tamil
  • Malay
  • English
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Selam Tegegn

Cultural background: (Ethiopian – Eritrean) Sub-Saharan Africa

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Languages spoken:
  • Amharic
  • Swahili
  • English
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Simrat Kaur

Cultural background: Indian

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Languages spoken: 
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • English
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Syed Muzaffar Ahmed

Cultural background: Bangladeshi

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Languages spoken: 
  • Bengali
  • English
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Syeda Maisara Muzaffar

Cultural background:  Bangladeshi

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Languages spoken:
  • Bengali
  • English
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Vijayakumar Vijayaratnam

Cultural background: Malaysian

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Languages spoken:
  • Tamil
  • Malay
  • English
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Wageesha Gamage

Cultural background: Sri Lankan

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Languages spoken:
  • Sinhalese
  • English

 

Photograph of the Cultural Ambassadors with Canning staff

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