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School for Life Foundation
May 07, 2018
Janepher Nansubuga grew up in rural Uganda and lost her parents at 16, which meant she and her siblings had to move to live with her grandmother in Kampala. Education there was harsh – no meals all day and beatings. Janepher decided she had to change things for her family and began working to pay for private education for herself and a sister and subsequently all her siblings. She eventually worked her way through teacher training and then started work as a teacher. She has been with School for Life since its beginnings and her outstanding approach to education has seen her develop into the role of Director of Schools.
Annabelle Chauncy is a dynamic leader and social entrepreneur who started School for Life Foundation at 21 years of age with operations in Australia and Uganda. Through her Foundation she has built a team of over 120 staff, built 3 schools in rural Uganda providing education to 680 students and outreach to more than 2,000 people. Annabelle has overcome huge barriers including running two high performing business in 2 continents, managing cultural and gender biases, shifting mindsets , driving change and innovation and engaging staff to achieve high performance. Annabelle is one of the youngest recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia and is she is testament to the fact that one person can make a difference. |
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Eradicating Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia
May 14, 2018
Lynne will talk about the work of Catherine & Reg Hamlin. Catherine was voted Senior Citizen of NSW for 2017. The title of my talk is The Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation I was born and raised in the UK. When I had graduated and gained experience as a Geography teacher I worked in Nigeria on a British development aid contract. I migrated from the UK in 1988 with my husband and three young children.
I recently retired as a Geography teacher at MLC Burwood.
I have always taken an interest in African affairs and am passionate about development issues. I have been very privileged to volunteer at the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation as I believe Catherine to be one of the most inspiring people that I have heard about.
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Jun 04, 2018 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Water Sanitation Project in Ossu,Timor Leste
Jun 18, 2018
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Jun 27, 2018 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Where the Penguins Holiday-Madagascar
Jul 02, 2018
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Jul 09, 2018 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Alcohol and other drugs in the local community
Jul 16, 2018
Christine has 7 years experience managing marketing and communications and fundraising projects for Leukaemia Foundation and Youth Off The Streets before joining Odyssey House NSW in January 2016. Her experience includes brand and reputation management, establishing and building a Marketing and Communications department within a Not-for-Profit, fundraising planning and implementation, and being a trusted advisor to the business. She also has 9 years For-profit experience in the public relations industry both in the UK and in Australia working on multinational clients such as IBM and Adobe.
Christine is an ocean swimmer who swims with a group at Bondi Beach every Saturday morning. Throughout the year. She also rides a Royal Enfield. |
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Budget Proposal and Directors will outline plans for the coming year
Aug 06, 2018
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May Gibbs “Nutcote” as an essential part in the North Sydney community
Aug 27, 2018
Cecilia May Gibbs was born in England in 1877. May was the daughter of talented amateur artists who migrated to Australia in 1881 and who later arranged for her formal art training in London. Being a single woman in a male-dominated field she initially turned her hand to any market for sketches or paintings to support herself. May’s love of the Australian bush grew from her happy childhood in WA. It manifested itself in her series of books, cartoons and short stories of which “Snugglepot and Cuddlepie” is the most famous having been in the bookshops continuously since 1918. Through a series of illustrations, we will follow May’s training in London and her lifestyle after she returned to Australia in 1913 and settled in Neutral Bay eventually designing her own home, Nutcote, in conjunction with popular Sydney architect B J Waterhouse in 1924/5. Dick Gall is a retired Mechanical Engineer who has worked at May Gibbs former home Nutcote in Neutral Bay as handyman/gardener for about eighteen years. Prior to retirement Dick worked for a major food company as Purchasing Manager specialising in procurement of food ingredients from overseas manufacturers. This exposure lead to some overseas travel which Dick and his wife now enjoy in a private capacity along with their local volunteering activities. At the North Sydney Council's Australian Citizenship ceremony in 2012 Dick was honoured with the council's award of Citizen of the Year for his volunteer efforts at Nutcote. |
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Aug 30, 2018 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Trip to Madagascar
Sep 10, 2018
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Due to so many Members being on holiday, there will be no Meeting this week!
Sep 17, 2018
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CanTeen-CanTeen is here for you if you're 12-25 and cancer has turned your world upside down
Sep 24, 2018
We get it. Just when life should be full of possibilities, cancer crashes into a young person’s world and shatters everything. Cancer pushes them back in to the nest, makes them grow up too fast and weighs them down with worries they’re not supposed to have yet. CanTeen is the game changer. We help young people cope with cancer in their family. Through CanTeen, they learn to explore and deal with their feelings about cancer, connect with other young people in the same boat and if they’ve been diagnosed themselves, we also provide specialist, youth-specific treatment teams. By feeling understood and supported, young people develop resilience and can rebuild the foundations that crumbled beneath them when cancer turned their life upside down. That’s how CanTeen is the difference. But lets not steal Peter's thunder, come along to our meeting on Monday 24th September and hear what Peter has to tell us about 'Can-Teen'. |
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Due to so many Members being on holiday, there will be no Meeting this week!
Oct 01, 2018
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Journey of a Ballerina
Oct 08, 2018
Nicole is the CEO of the Tanya Pearson Ballet School in Chandos Street St Leonards. The ballet school has been in operation for some 50 years,a business Nicole took over from her mother.Nicole will give us a vivid description of history of the academy and the journey the girls,some coming fom overseas, go through ,from the age of 10 or 11 years to potentially and in some cases becoming international ballerinas. FYI, Nicole is the daughter-in -law of Harold Sharp,but despite that ,I'm sure you'll find her talk both intersting and stimulating
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Up-date on Nakuru Project
Oct 22, 2018
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Oct 25, 2018 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Rotay Foundation
Nov 05, 2018
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