In Nepal, there are 489 registered orphanages, housing 11,350 children. How many children could be living in family-based care? How many children are living in orphanages that are not registered or flying under the radar? From over 60 years of international research, we…
Mountain Writers Festival – Australia’s inaugural writers’ festival dedicated solely to the environment, themed ‘Place. Story. Nature.’ Produced by Macedon Ranges Literary Association Inc. (MARLA), a local volunteer-run not-for-profit organisation, the Mountain Writers Festival is set to be the Woodstock of the…
“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…
Tom Bozic is on a mission to visit nearly two-dozen Return and Earn machines across Sydney, New South Wales, by bicycle to raise much-needed funds for people living with autism. Tom is president of the Sydney Autism Community Lions Club (SACLC), a…
A new report by Social Ventures Australia (SVA) and the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) outlines recommendations for sustainable government support of the charity sector – following findings that four out of five community sector charities struggled with increased demand for services…
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…
On World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September, The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health (“Jilya”) will hold a fundraising gala dinner to address the shocking rates of Indigenous child suicide in Australia. Data from the National Mortality Database and the Australian…
Australia’s oldest bush charity, Frontier Services, launched its annual “Great Outback BBQ” campaign in August, seeking urgent assistance to help Aussie farmers who are fighting to survive after a years-long onslaught of floods, fires, drought, plagues, and then a global pandemic. Marking…
Australia Post’s popular free postcards will arrive in millions of letterboxes, and at post offices around the country this week, helping Australians to check in and support one another on R U OK? Day, which is today, 8 September, and in the…
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and the Australian Red Cross have launched a life-saving multilingual COVID-19 health education program that will see health education sessions delivered in more than 25 languages in eight locations across Australia. For migrant and refugee communities, access to in-language and culturally…
