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. [...]
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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 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 [...]
Bess is looking at the world in a whole new light
Bess Rossiter is part of the Generate program in New South Wales in 2013. After participating in the 2013 Roadtrip to End Poverty, something compelled me to allow this cause to become the focus of my energies. I had realized that this was to become a tremendous passion of mine. The motivation behind all of [...]
Kate shares her Generate journey so far
Kate is one of our Generate Ambassadors from ACT So a couple of weeks ago as I was procrastinating my way through Facebook, I came across a link for something about the Oaktree Foundation and Generate program. Filled with mild curiosity I clicked on it, read through the details, realised how moulded the program actually [...]
TAS Generate 2012 by Jack Welsh
Tas Generate has had a remarkable journey in the last two years. It was first run in Tas in 2011, with four of the brightest from that year going on to run it in 2012, along with a rookie on the Generate scene, yours truly, on board as the fourth facilitator. I can’t compare this [...]
Blog Action Day 2012: The Power of We
This blog post was written by Sionnie Kelly, a SA Generator as part of Blog Action Day 2012. Find out more about Blog Action Day or jump on Twitter using the hashtag #BAD12 or #PowerofWe. “Come on, Come on, Leave me breathless!” my phone sang at me breaking me from the intense focus I had placed on [...]
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