by Gilda Sorella, Tasmania Generator It’s all over, well, it is for us at least. Luckily, we get to return to ‘normal’ lifestyles, to feed our bellies and return to our everyday ways. Hopefully we have gained from this experience a very tiny snapshot into what a person living on $2 a day experiences. Of [...]
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Get a jumpstart – how to raise $700 in 7 days!
Gilda Sorella from Tasmania is our official 2012 Generate-Live Below the Line blogger! She’ll be sharing her experiences of Generate and Live Below the Line and some of her tips for getting through the challenge. Here’s her first blog, with some advice for those of you hoping to do some big fundraising this week before [...]
Team Rocket lives below the line – for a month!
by Generate WA Amanda, Chris and Daniel - or Team Rocket as they call themselves – are Generators from WA who are doing Live Below the Line for a whole month. Amanda writes about their experience so far: So Chris decided that it be a great idea to do Live Below the Line for a [...]
Meet Emilie – one of our Tasmanian Generators!
by Emilie McDonnell, TAS Generator My Generate experience began with a leap of faith into something that I really did not know that much about. All I knew is that I wanted to be a young person involved in ending extreme poverty. In March I turned up, bags packed and thinking cap on, to the Generate retreat and I [...]
I want to be a police officer when I grow up
Minto Felix is Oaktree’s Director of People & Culture. He’s also doing Live Below the Line this year. You can sponsor him here, or sign yourself up here. Venkat was by far and away the hardest working boy in class and with the biggest dreams. When I visited him in 2010, he was in [...]
“Generate makes me love Tuesdays”
By Kaela Peters, SA Generator Generate, so far, has been both a challenging and rewarding experience. Having not being able to attend the Generate Camp at the end of March, I was a little uneasy about meeting 39 other people who already had the chance to get to know each other. However, after the first Generate [...]
The Game of Strife
By QLD Generate It is a typical Tuesday, four families are sitting making life-changing decisions about what to do today. One family, receiving an income of $200 a day, are trying to decide if they should teach their kids to swim. It’s a quick and easy decision as they decide it is a useful skill that [...]
Generate NSW talks camps and 2012
The NSW Generate team has put together this awesome video blog (or ‘vlog’ for those of you still living in 2002) reflecting on their launch camp and looking forward to the rest of the year. They talk about camp, and how they are trying to continue the fun, inspiration, knowledge and sharing of ideas well into [...]
Generate kicks off with a bang (and some dancing!)
by ACT Generate Twenty-five nervous Generators arrived in the centre of Canberra. New faces and games awaited them before we headed off to our retreat destination in scenic Warrambui. Car games included vehicle dance parties with running around the car at red lights. One team even managed to lock themselves out of the car whilst [...]
Top Tips on Meeting Your Member
By Laura McIlhenny We know that meeting with a Member of Parliament (MP) can be a somewhat nerve-wrecking experience. The pre-meeting coffee jitters, butterflies and nervous fits of laughter do seem inevitable but meeting with MPs, or Senators for that matter, is a crucial part of the campaigning process. Having survived our long a-waited meeting [...]
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