The project team wishes to thank the Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of SA Inc (AMISSA) for allowing us the opportunity to implement this project, with support from Office for Ageing Well, SA Health and The Australian
Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI).
The Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of South Australia were really, really fortunate in 2022 to receive a Positive Ageing Fellowship Grant from Office for Ageing Well. It involved working with Office for Ageing Well, as well as TACSI. They were the people that helped us with the project development;
it’s taken a while for us to get to this finished product.
AMISSA’s Bridging the Gap project aimed at decreasing the generational gap between the senior and youth generation of the CaLD Muslim community. It aimed to connect the two generations and to break any stigma that has been creating the gap between these generations.
The approach is from a self-advocacy and strengths-based perspective, that encourages the seniors to claim their own narrative and to build confidence and participation while doing so. On the other hand, the younger
generation of the community recognised the value of the senior members of the community, related to their lived experience, and were able to build meaningful, long-term connections.
Maybe somebody can reinvent it and do it again in 20 or 30 years’ time.