“Can I ask you to think about what is on your plate and how it gets there?” Pam Ahern, who has loved and rescued cats and dogs from childhood, is considering attending an anti-fur rally in the 1990s. She confides with one…
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Women in prisons in Australia often come from backgrounds of disadvantage. Women and Mentoring (WAM) seeks to address these imbalances by offering an early, unique intervention program in Victoria that supports women and those who identify as women, when they have had…
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What is possible if refugees are given greater community and government support? A story like that of Dr Linny Kimly Phuong and The Water Well Project is possible. Linny’s parents were Vietnamese boat people, leaving the war-torn country in the 1970s when…
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For over a hundred years, Sparkways (formerly Try Mentoring) have been offering a mentoring program for young people. What do some of the young people completing the program today say about it? “I have learned that I can’t always change things and…
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Carol Berger, a Community Development Worker, and Manager of Power Neighbourhood House, started Connecting Teens in 2008. Connecting Teens supports young people to experience and develop friendships. Her son, who is on the autism spectrum, was a teenager at the time and experiencing bullying and social…
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