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WATER FOR ALL
With its theme, The Heart of our Culture, National Water Week in Australia is the perfect time to consider how access to clean water is fundamental to our way of life and culture.
Read MorePoverty has many faces
As we honour Anti-Poverty Week this week, I’m thinking about the many faces of poverty and how we need to understand and address each of them if we are to help families break the cycle of poverty.
Read MoreCOOK UP A SPICY CURRY FOR ANTI-POVERTY WEEK!
Are you a curry lover? Do you like to get in the kitchen and cook up a storm? Are you passionate about ending the poverty cycle? Are you a foodie? Then get on board with other Aussies for The Great Australian…
Read MoreGlobal Poverty: An Amazing Success Story… But We…
As Anti-Poverty Week in Australia gets underway, Chris Murdoch from Opportunity International Australia considers the solutions to global poverty and how much work there is still to do.
Read MoreWorld Food Day: Invest in food security and rural development
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has been running World Food Day each year on 16 October since 1981. Building on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 of “Zero Hunger”…
Read MoreHonouring families living in poverty by cooking up…
Opportunity International Australia says Australia’s Anti-Poverty Week is the perfect opportunity to cook up a spicy curry and raise funds to help families break the cycle of poverty
Read MoreHonouring families as they work their way out of poverty:…
Opportunity International says the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October honours families as they work to free themselves from poverty. Opportunity Global…
Read MoreGlobal Poverty: An Amazing Success Story
On the eve of Anti-Poverty Week in Australia and the 25th anniversary of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, I’m reflecting on the journey out of poverty so many families have made in the…
Read MoreGlobal Poverty: An Amazing Success Story …but we…
On the eve of Anti-Poverty Week in Australia and the 25th anniversary of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, I’m reflecting on the journey out of poverty so many families have made in the…
Read MoreHelp a girl, change the world: why female empowerment…
Of the girls who make up 1.1 billion of the world’s population, those living in developing countries face some of the greatest challenges. But what difference can empowerment, particularly in the form…
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