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Since February last year the Queensland Muslim Welfare Association Incorporated (QMWAI),
headed by President Janeth Deen, has built an award-
Awards Upon Awards
for Muslim Charity Association
Its op shop clients include homeless people looking for warm clothing and bedding, single parents on the hunt for school supplies, and disadvantaged families hoping to find everything from furniture to shoes. Most are either given the items free or charged a low nominal fee. One of the group's greatest services is its assistance for new arrivals or migrants looking to establish a new home. So far the organization has helped fully furnish seven houses.
BEING AT THE RIGHT PLACE at the right
time proved to be the key to securing the
interview with Pakistani Cricket team captain Mohammad Yousuf – not to mention the many hours of Urdu lessons in early childhood.
In Pursuit of the
“Maulana”
When I heard that I might have the opportunity to interview the Pakistani cricket team while they were in Brisbane, I didn’t give it a second
thought. I jumped on the phone and, after a few calls, managed to get the number of the Pakistani cricket team manager Mr Abdul Raqeeb. He
was not very interested in talking to the press.He told me he had advised the team players against talking to any journalist.
“If they do talk to them, there is nothing I can do about it,” he said to me. I assured him that I just wanted to do a story about being a successful Muslim sports person for the Muslim community of Brisbane, hoping that I would gain some trust. It seemed as if it softened him as he gave me the details of where and when the
team would be training, once in Brisbane.
Excited about getting the interview I now had to quickly organize a babysitter for my two sons. The process of dropping and picking up and organising myself made me stop and wonder; what was I thinking? Mother of two, trying to get an interview with the Pakistani cricket team?! It had been a while since I had chased a
story for a newspaper. My husband stopped my outburst and reminded me that I was doing this for the paper, the readers: bringing a different story to them.
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