Isabella Parisi spent the first year of her life in and out of the hospital. She was born with a trachea oesophageal fistula with oesophageal atresia – a feature of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. After being diagnosed with the syndrome when she was…
Endometriosis affects an estimated 830,00 women and girls across Australia and 10 per cent of women globally. In Australia, endometriosis is underfunded, under-researched and is a slow-to-diagnosed disease. Endometriosis Australia, the country’s peak advocacy organisation, is endeavouring to educate the public on…
Womxn* around the world will understand the stress of getting their period, and not having a sanitary product handy, but what if that was a problem that you faced every time you menstruated? Period poverty is the lack of access to menstrual…
headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation is today, 11 November, hosting its inaugural Million for Mental Health Day to raise $1 million for services that empower family members to support young people in their mental health journey. Money raised will fund a range…
“It is time to transform our pain into action. There can be no more excuses – that it is too hard, we don’t know what to do, it’s too complex.” Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions in Australia. One…
“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…
Feel the Magic, one of Australia’s leading charities offering holistic, evidence-based face-to-face and virtual support services to children and families who are grieving the death of a parent, guardian or sibling, today announced that its annual fundraising challenge, 1-in-20, is now open…
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…
