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Our Schools4Schools team and a group of students from years 10 and 11 from Oaktree’s partner schools are on a 3-week educational tour of Cambodia, as part of the Ambassador Challenge program. This second blog direct from Cambodia tells all about their trip and experiences so far. Stay tuned to hear more from the Ambassadors about their [...]

As we speak, our Schools4Schools team and a group of students from years 10 and 11 from Oaktree’s partner schools are on a 3-week, once in a lifetime educational tour of Cambodia. The trip allows them to experience firsthand the problems that face the developing world, and the work being done by organisations such as KAPE and the Oaktree Foundation [...]

Rachael blogs on the the successful Peace.Poverty.Photography awards night, and her recent Oaktree interview…

The last day of the Global Community Forum has finally come. And my, what a big weekend it has been. With speakers from Hugh Evans to Melissa Parke, to the Commonwealth Youth Forum Delegates, the delegates were given an amazing broad spectrum of ideas to think about and to develop into forms of action.

If I had to describe today’s forum, it would be with the following phrases: “Millenium Development Goals” and “Progress”. But The forum wasn’t all about speeches, note taking and being awestruck by inspirational speakers. There were activities – activities such as Ninja Destruction. If you haven’t heard of Ninja Destruction, then I am not sure where you have been.

In our monthly guest exploration of everything development, guest blogger Paul Ronands (former Deputy CEO of World Vision) looks at Aid Effectiveness. [pro-player width='530' height='295' type='video']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suFB9IqJdwY[/pro-player] Paul Ronalds says: As Peter Versegi’s Youtube clip argues, Australia’s aid program can be assessed at three levels: the program level, the country level and the international institutional level. [...]

Michael Sheldrick answers your questions and comments on the proposed submission by Oaktree to the Independent Review on Aid Effectiveness.

As we speak, the Oaktree team are over in Timor visiting 8 of the 15 small business groups, meeting the people and learning about their successes and challenges! Driving from village to village in some the most remote parts of timor, they are witnessing incredible changes and the project in action!Catch the FIRST VIDEO CLIP [...]

This month: PNG Country Manager Celia Boyd fields your questions and comments about selection of a new project in PNG.

Kathryn James of the CBM Australia-Nossal Institute Partnership for Disability Inclusive Development answers your questions on disability inclusion.