Jeanette has created an alphabet with a difference to raise literacy standards and encourage conversations about language, culture, emotions in Australia's remote and marginalised communities. What do you get when you take two creatives who are passionate about literacy and education and combine their skill sets with...
Although some may say Ayendha has sacrificed a lot to teach in a remote village in Indonesia, she believes that the simplest acts can yield the best results. I’m a young Indonesian who has recently graduated from the Food Science and Technology Department in Bogor Agricultural University. Helping children is...
Rosie shares her experience empowering disadvantaged children through education and sport in Fiji. Last summer, I was a teaching and sports volunteer in Fiji with the organisation Think Pacific. Despite having previously taught at a lycée in France for eight months, my first week in Kindergarten...
Bringing Spoken Word Poetry Workshops to Schools and Mental Institutions in Argentina As kids, those who have a literary interest tend to learn two things very quickly. First, that literature is a gate towards universes, concepts and also abstract, wonderful ideas that have the potential to...
Creating Opportunity and Restoring Freedom from Guinea-Bissau to Sri Lanka I was 14 years old when I took a week off from school to join my church on a mission trip to Guinea-Bissau. Filled with excitement and hope for adventure, I boarded a plane that would...
Researching International Expansion of Transit Monitoring to Intercept Victims and Traffickers Tiny Hands International (THI) is a Christian NGO in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and South Africa, where we do anti-trafficking work and care for abandoned or orphaned children. THI fights human trafficking by transit monitoring— monitoring public...
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." Mother Theresa In the summer of 2012, I spent nearly two months working as a volunteer teacher in a school in northern Tanzania. When I decided to go I...