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Promises, promises: foreign aid and the Federal election
Beyond the snappy slogans, baby-kissing and photo ops inherent on the hustings, policy announcements take centre stage. However, asylum seeker issues aside, it’s been a relatively quiet Federal Election campaign on the foreign policy front.
Of course, elections are more likely won (or lost) on issues closer to home and their affect on voters’ hip-pockets. But if you’re also concerned about what the result on August 21 will mean for Australia’s financial commitment to the world’s developing nations. ... read more |
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Jill Howe has a passion for the people of Hovdin-Bulgan in Mongolia. She has lived there for a number of years working to reduce poverty and improve educational opportunities in the community. ...more |
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Learn more about development issues and our work by watching these short films and presentations. Come back again for information on upcoming visits by representatives of our overseas partners.
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| Beyond the snappy slogans, baby-kissing and photo ops inherent on the hustings, policy announcements take centre stage. However, asylum seeker issues aside, it’s been a relatively quiet Federal Election campaign on the foreign policy front.
Of course, elections are more likely won (or lost) on issues closer to home and their affect on voters’ hip-pockets. But if you’re also concerned about what the result on August 21 will mean for Australia’s financial commitment to the world’s developing nations. ... read more |
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| Grace* was dangerously ill from an HIV-related illness and had to admit herself to hospital. She placed her baby daughter Hannah, who is not HIV positive, into the care of a neighbour. When the neighbour was unable to look after her any longer, Hannah was taken to iThemba Lethu. iThemba Lethu is a communal home-based care facility in Durban, South Africa, for children orphaned or abandoned due to HIV/AIDS and poverty. When Hannah arrived she was extremely dehydrated from having had diarrhoea for two weeks. She was fed donated breast milk and quickly recovered her strength. ... read more |
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| Millions of children die every year from preventable causes. About 25,000 children die every day. It’s a fact that a child born in the developing world is over 13 times more likely to die under the age of five than a child born in an industrialised country. ... read more |
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| International Needs runs child sponsorship programs in several countries; Bangladesh, Ghana, North India, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Uganda. Through regular monthly donations, a sponsor in Australia provides much needed assistance for a child, their family and their community.
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| People volunteer for all sorts of reasons. Some people are motivated by altruism; they simply want to help others, or help out in their community. But people can also be doing so for the many other side benefits of volunteering; to gain personal satisfaction, to have social contact, to keep active, to use skills and experience, and it is also a great way to learn new skills and gain work experience. People can volunteer for just one or several of these reasons. ... read more |
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| Sulemanu was a very young boy when his father passed away. In a small village in Ghana, his mother struggled to provide for Sulemanu and his three older brothers and sisters. They were all of school age and had no food, clothing or medical care. To survive they relied on the generosity of their neighbours. ... read more |
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| Dr. Shirin David and her husband Pervez, lead a team of dedicated workers in small, needy villages around the city of Allahabad in India. One aspect of the ministry is to set local women up in small businesses; thirty-one women of whom were recently added to this scheme. Over the past year 100 women's lives have been enriched and changed through the holistic ministry of empowerment and education. ... read more |
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| Children who are from poor families, live in rural areas, and are girls, are the most likely to not attend or drop out of primary school. These huge inequalities in access to education are the focus of Millennium Development Goal 2, to achieve universal primary education for all children by 2015. In Sri Lanka, International Needs is going to contribute to achieving this goal with a new early education development project. ... read more |
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| These campaigns seek to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and specifically the halving of global poverty by 2015. International Needs Australia proudly endorses and supports both campaigns. ... read more |
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| View a Windows Media presentation of our activities here. Running time about 6 minutes. ... read more |
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