Queensland African Migrant Services (QAMS)

The Queensland African Migrant Services (Qams) is a Not-For-Profit, Non-Government and Charitable Organisation that is involved with Strengthening and Re-Engineering African migrant education pathways. Qams also markets, advertises and promotes African migrant and mainstream Australian businesses by connecting them with their clients which provides many opportunities for businesses to showcase their products and services. As a migrant oriented organisation, Qams organises Events and Festivals that bring residents of Queensland together - a situation that enable businesses to expend thier sales and gain access to new clients and customers. 

Our Projects:

Numeracy & Literacy/NAPLAN Project

Numeracy and Literacy efficiency among African refugee and migrant children is one of the many challenges faced by students from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Therefore, many students are not keen on doing their NAPLAN Examinations in year 3, 5, 7 & 9. And if they should do, the results are not sometimes favorable to mum, dad, the student and school. 

In view of the above circumstances, the Queensland African Migrant Services (Qams) has decided to assist students in year 3, 5, 7 and 9 with numeracy and literacy assistance at the Sunnybank Hills Library on every Saturday from 11:00am to 2:00pm. The registration process is currently ongoing and will end 28 February 2017. Numeracy and Literacy assistance will begin from 15 March - 30 May 2017. Meanwhile, NAPLAN Examinations will commence from 9 - 11 May 2017. Only students who are registered during the above registration period will received free NAPLAN practice textbooks.

School Lunch

Our Numeracy and Literacy NAPLAN Project also provides lunch during the study period at the Sunny Bankhills Library as well as lunch for students to take home during the week. This effort is undertaken to encourage the students and afford mum and dad to take care of other important financial issues from the little savings that is done during month. The School Lunch Project begins with the Numeracy and Literacy Project in March but will continue until October 2017. Therefore, only students who registered for the Numeracy and Literacy NAPLAN Project will be qualify for the School Lunch. 

REMEP: Re-Engineering Migrant Education Pathways

Working in the student community has enable to identify some the challenges that qualified African migrant university graduates are facing. Our interactions have given first hand information on some of the common barriers faced by many qualified graduates which range from lack of work experience, limited corporate profile, and limited information about the job market as well as desirable skills that employers are looking for. 

Therefore, in order to improve the rate of employable opportunities among qualified African migrant university students, Qams has embarked on the REMEP Project for Students in year 11 and 12 before their graduation from high school.

Our Events/Festivals

Multicultural Creative Arts Festival: April 29 2017

Although we have many languages, tribes, traditions, beliefs, food, dances and musics; these diversities are our gifts or blessings and be use by us to empower our communities socially and economically. So Join US in April 2017?

Africa is a continent that is rich with diversities in cultures, dances, food, costumes, and beauties. But what is actually lacking is our ability to transform our rich diversities into socioeconomic enterprises that will create employment opportunities for its impoverished people. And the same scenario is gradually finding its way into Diaspora communities having left the Mother-Land in search of peace, happiness and prosperity that have been denied for many years as a result of prolong civil wars or internal political conflicts. 

In view of the above, Qams has endeavored to bring the talents, cultures, foods, costumes, dances and music of Africans from the closets to the public space that will enable many residents of Brisbane to learn from, enjoy and appreciate the richness of cultural diversities among the African communities. 

Queensland African Christmas Festival 2017: 25 December 2017

Christmas is a time for families, friends and love ones to celebrate the Birth of Jesus on 25th December each year. However, there are many ways in which each family would like to celebrate Christmas in a unique way and style that resonate with their life, tradition, belief and customs. In whatever way families, friends and love ones choose to celebrate Christmas, as a community residing in Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs, we view Christmas a time to share and come together for the common good of our community and its residents and not forgetting about the importance of Christmas. 

Therefore, we at Qams have chosen to celebrate Christmas by giving toys to the students who participate in the Community Library/NAPLAN Project each year. This gesture is initiated as a means of encouraging them for forgoing play in the packs and joining their friends in the Sunnybank Hills Library from 11:00am to 2:00pm on Saturday morning. Please click on this link Brisbane African Christmas Festival to view previous Brisbane African Christmas Festival.