Our Work

Empowering culturally diverse communities through leadership, collaboration and advocacy

As the state-wide peak body for all culturally and linguistically diverse communities in NSW, the ECCNSW undertakes a range of activities, including government-funded projects, to fulfill our constitutional objectives and improve the range of services available to members of ethnic communities.

These are the projects we are currently working on. Click on a project to learn more.

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Current Programs

  • Vote Talk
    Vote Talk

    The Vote Talk Program aims to make elections and voting simple and easy for everyone to understand. Through podcasts, community conversations and radio interviews in different languages, you will hear members of your community talk about elections, voting and how you can make sure your vote counts.

  • Inner West Sector Support Development and Training
    Inner West Sector Support Development and Training

    ECCNSW employs an Inner West Sector Support Development and Training Officer who guides and provides capacity building for the Inner West CHSP paid staff and volunteers, to build capacity for the aged care sector.

  • Speak My Language (Disability)
    Speak My Language (Disability)

    Funded by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, this program harnesses multicultural radio and podcasts to share the real stories and advice of people living with a disability, to enable others to live well.

  • Bin Trim Program
    Bin Trim Program

    NSW businesses send nearly 2 million tonnes of waste to landfill each year. More than 70% of this waste could be reused or recycled. Reducing waste sent to landfill has environmental and economic benefits for everyone.

  • Tech Savvy Seniors
    Tech Savvy Seniors

    NSW Government and Telstra partnered with ECCNSW to deliver the Tech Savvy Seniors program in workshops that take place in community libraries.

Past Programs

  • The Waterless Wok: Saving Water in Asian Restaurants
    The Waterless Wok: Saving Water in Asian Restaurants

    Between 2005 to 2009, ECCNSW utilised a range of complementary education strategies to help Asian restaurant owners and staff to reduce their water usage.

  • Good Neighbour
    Good Neighbour

    Good Neighbour is a program that connected local people with refugees and asylum seekers, who were new to the area and arrived without the support of their own friends and family. Volunteers hoped to help newly arrived refugees with the community and its services while building friendships.

  • Men Against Violence (MAV)
    Men Against Violence (MAV)

    The Men Against Violence (MAV) project aims to engage Wellbeing Connectors (WB) to empower men from CALD backgrounds to become the pipeline for change and challenge current perception towards domestic violence in their community.

  • Household Chemical Waste CALD Engagement Program
    Household Chemical Waste CALD Engagement Program

    The Household Chemical Program is an initiative of the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment in collaboration with the Ethnic Communitiesโ€™ Council of NSW (ECCNSW).

  • Speak My Language (Ageing Well)
    Speak My Language (Ageing Well)

    Through simple in-language conversations on-air, the Speak My Language (Ageing Well) program assists senior members of the CALD communities to understand recent changes to aged care and make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing.

  • Tobacco Control
    Tobacco Control

    ECCNSW developed and implemented a program to reduce smoking and the risk of cancer across five CALD communities in Sydney.

  • Love Food, Hate Waste
    Love Food, Hate Waste

    Love Food Hate Waste is a program that helps households, communities and businesses stop wasting food and start protecting the environment.

  • Business Energy Smart Tips (BEST)
    Business Energy Smart Tips (BEST)

    The Business Energy Smart Tips program (BEST) set out to give energy efficiency information, energy assessments and advice to culturally and linguistically diverse businesses.