Carol Saffer is an award-winning journalist enthusiastic about creating copy that engages audiences. She is curious by nature, possesses a growth mindset and thrives on new and unusual challenges. Carol has experience as a reporter for various regional Victorian newspapers and writing for Business Day in The Age. Her previous career was in the fashion industry, and she holds post-graduate degrees in business and journalism.
HOMELESSNESS Week, an annual awareness-raising series of events, is held the first week of August highlighting the over 105,000 Australians who are homeless on any given night. On Monday, 2 August, Homelessness Australia, the country’s national peak body for homelessness, invited the…
NUTRIEN Ag Solutions, Australia’s largest agricultural services and products provider has united with Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal (FRRR), donating $250,000 annually to fund community projects in its name. The joint program aims to award not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional…
In August 1962, I turned ten in the isolation ward at Melbourne’s Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital.
It wasn’t jail, but it felt like it was; I was alone, scared and hadn’t seen my mum for three weeks.…
THE suicide rates for Indigenous children in Australia are amongst the highest in the world. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aged between 15 and 24 have almost a four times higher suicide rate than non-Indigenous…
SAFE Haven Community, a non-government assisted charity, has flown under the radar for six years supporting survivors of coercive control; women falling through the cracks of domestic violence because they were unable to evidence their abuse. The charity aims to provide early…
Australia Post does more than deliver mail and parcels, take passport photos and process bill payments. The business juggernaut gives money away as well. Australia Post’s 2021 Community Grants program is now open for applications from not-for-profit organisations for individual project funding…
LOVELUVO, a social enterprise retailer stocking eco-friendly, locally sourced, and fair-trade home and body products, is located in Seddon Village just across the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne’s west. Jessica Sims, the store’s manager, describes Seddon as just like a small country…
FORTY Monash University students recently paid $5 each for the privilege of packing six items into two hundred plastic zip lock bags. A piece of gauze, a plastic sheet, some cotton cord, a bar of soap, pair of gloves and a sharp…
ANECDOTALY, donations by Australians to support fellow citizens affected by natural disasters are spontaneous and prolific. With deep pockets and full hearts, people want to help their mates, even if they don’t know them. Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal’s CEO Natalie Egleton…
IT is not only global charities and governments helping to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the Indian sub-continent. Friends of India Network, tiny by comparison to UNICEF and Save the Children, is a Ballarat-based community group that aims to bring residents of Indian origin…
