[RNLD] farewell to RNLD

[Peter Austin]

Margaret

Congratulations on your retirement and your achievements with RNLD and DRIL
over these many years. Your work has had a large impact nationally and the
effects will be felt for many years to come.

Best wishes for your new life.

Peter


On 12 Jul 2017 02:27, "Margaret Florey" <mflorey at rnld.org> wrote:

> Dear RNLDers,
>
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>
> It's time to say goodbye! This is the final day of work for me at RNLD as
> I'm about to commence my retirement.
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> It has been a great privilege to have worked with RNLD for the past nine
> years since I was first awarded Federal Government funding in 2009 to
> develop the Documenting and Revitalising Indigenous Languages (DRIL)
> training program. It was a long-held dream to create a training model and program
> that could support the wishes of Aboriginal and Islander people to develop
> and control all aspects of their own language programs themselves. It has
> been exciting and extremely rewarding to bring this dream to fruition and
> to see the DRIL program flourish in such a short time.
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> Up to this point, we have run 130 Flexible DRIL workshops, trained over
> 600 Indigenous people from all Australian states and territories, and
> supported 147 separate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. We
> have also developed and piloted our nationally accredited Certificate II in
> Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program and Certificate III in
> Aboriginal Languages for Communities and Workplaces, and delivered six
> Professional Development workshops.
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> I am proud to be leaving RNLD in a strong position with a great team of
> trainers and office staff. RNLD will continue to serve Indigenous
> communities across Australia and to reach out internationally to people who
> are keenly involved in language revitalisation activities, while also
> growing and developing in new directions.
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> Such achievements can only occur with the support of many other people. In
> parting, my heartfelt thanks go foremost to all of the language warriors
> around Australia who have taken part in our training workshops. You have
> not only placed your trust in us but have also shared your knowledge with
> us and have been central to the development of our training model and our
> programs. I am very grateful to our energetic staff (both present and past)
> who bring passion and skills to all of our activities, the ILA funding
> program, partner organisations, and all of you in Australia and
> internationally who connect with us and contribute to RNLD's mission.
>
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> Every moment has brought me joy!
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> best wishes,
>
> Margaret
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> --
> Dr Margaret Florey
> RNLD founder and DRIL Director
> Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
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> except when I am travelling to deliver DRIL training workshops
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