E/CN.4/2002/24/Add.1 page 53 120. In the field of education, the Special Rapporteur learned about the activities of the Alice Springs Aboriginal Development Institute, which was established in 1969 and now has the status of a university institute attached to Lutro University in the State of Victoria. The Institute devotes itself to the high-level training of Aboriginals, giving due weight to the requirements of Aboriginal culture and non-Aboriginal values (the training schedule takes account of traditional ceremonies in which students are required to participate). It trains teachers, educators, publishers, social assistants, managers, entrepreneurs and interpreters. Some of the Institute’s courses are aimed at the personality development of Aboriginals and focus on persons suffering the effects of racial discrimination; other courses, such as the Aboriginal leadership programme, are aimed at providing political training, teaching Aboriginals to negotiate, supporting their communities and designing development projects. In the year 2000, the Institute trained 600 students. Despite its achievements, the Institute’s leaders consider that it does not receive sufficient financial support from the Northern Territory government because of its desire for autonomy and its pro-Aboriginal approach. Thus credits have still not been granted by the government for the extension and modernization of the Institute, a project which was submitted in 1994 and approved by the federal Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. This project will enable the Institute to become an Aboriginal university with several departments. 121. Organizations such as the Stolen Generation Consultation Project provide legal and psychological support for victims of the child abduction policy practised by the Commonwealth Government up to 1970. The Special Rapporteur attended a meeting of this organization in Alice Springs on 2 May and heard particularly moving testimony by a number of people in their seventies who were searching for their origins. B. Ethnic and inter-ethnic organizations, and organizations working in support of migrants and contributing to social harmony 122. The Cabramatta Community Centre in Fairfield, the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia, Anglicare, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission and the Australian Arabic Council are just a few of the organizations in these categories which help to give life to Australian multiculturalism and to preserve social harmony. 123. The Cabramatta Community Centre, situated in the city of Fairfield - an ethnically diverse suburb to the west of Sydney, forms part of a support network for migrants and refugees and provides assistance in the following fields: learning English, housing, child care, health care, legal and social counselling, support for older persons, assistance with settlement, job-seeking and youth activities. Of the city’s 181,785 inhabitants, over 50 per cent come from 130 different countries, speak over 70 languages and practise 60 religions. It is a large community-based organization with different divisions that are managed by sub-committees made up of members of the local community. It includes a neighbourhood centre, a migrant resource centre and a youth team. The first Indo-Chinese refugees started to arrive in the Fairfield area in 1975. Many arrived in the country having suffered severe trauma from war, torture, starvation, family loss and separation, and speaking little or no English. The Centre’s activities started when an immigrant from Germany started teaching English to refugees in her home and developed into the Community Centre in 1981.