Update: Young People for Development There have been some amazing developments already in the Young People for Development (YPfD) project that we’ve just got up and running. On the ground in Cambodia, the teams from our partner organization (The Puthi Komar Organisation, PKO) have been busy completing the final stages of building and administration before [...]
Update from Ba Futuru: Atoy’s Story
Once a gang member, Atoy has changed his life and is now a facilitator of conflict resolution and human rights education in Timor-Leste. Ba Futuru, the Oaktree Foundation’s partner organisation in Timor-Leste, reached out to Atoy as an at-risk youth when he was 22 years old. Since then, he has overcome a violent and insecure [...]
An Update from the Girls Education Initiative (GEI)
My name’s Sara and I am writing to update you on our Girls’ Education Initiative (GEI) project in Cambodia. The project is run through our partner KAPE. It provides 368 scholarships to students in rural Cambodia, with a priority on girls who are particularly vulnerable to not receiving a high school education. In April, we [...]
A page from the TAS Generate diary
TUESDAY, 7 MAY. 5.15pm. It’s already starting to get dark and Tassie winter is kicking in. However, this does not deter us Generators! Our room has ‘homely’ feel about it. We have comfy seats and the walls surrounding us are plastered with Live Below the Line and Roadtrip posters, as well as our ‘gracious space’ poster. [...]
Generate lives below the line – Day five
Written by the official Generate blogger for Live Below the Line, Alice Marquand from Victoria. You have no idea how good it feels to wake up and know that today will be the last time you have to suffer through eating rolled oats and water for at least the next 12 months. So, with that thought [...]
Generate lives below the line – Day Four
Written by the official Generate blogger for Live Below the Line, Alice Marquand from Victoria. Day four was pretty uneventful. I neither had uni or any uni work to do. I didn’t plan for a movie and pyjama day but it just sort of happened that way. My lack of energy had finally hit me. Needless [...]
Generate lives below the line – Day three
Written by the official Generate blogger for Live Below the Line, Alice Marquand from Victoria. So, if you knew you were going to die, what would you choose your last meal to be? For me, prior to Live Below the Line, this question would involve various responses from chocolate mud cake to green chicken curry. Although [...]
Generate Lives Below the Line – Day Two
Written by the official Generate blogger for Live Below the Line, Alice Marquand from Victoria. Anyone who knows anything about me knows how much I enjoy food. Breakfast is no exception. Usually I wake up 30 minutes early just to have a good breaky, a coffee and read the paper. In fact, I swear by [...]
Generate Lives Below the Line – Day One
Written by the official Generate blogger for Live Below the Line, Alice Marquand from Victoria. Day one of Live Below the Line officially started with some delicious rolled oats and water, with a side of apple. I underestimated just how long it takes to prepare what would otherwise be a seemingly simplistic meal. I’ve quickly learned that [...]
Why try to change the world?
Nathan Triffitt is part of the Generate program in Victoria in 2013. Oaktree gave me my why. Recently, I was asked what my ‘why’ is. Basically, what my reason for living is. Nothing major, but then I got to thinking about it and I realised it’s not something that is considered or thought about that [...]
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