World Vision 10,000 sponsors appeal

4819 Sponsors so far!!
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Why not join in and sponsor now, your heart will thank you for it!

Change the life of a childThe best way to change a child's life is to change the world in which they live.
By sponsoring a child, you will help to bring about long-term benefits to the child, their family and community for just $43 per month. Your support will help to fund vital development work in the child's community, such as digging wells, improving sanitation and building health clinics.
This work ensures that the community will be able to provide the children with the basics they need, which helps them to grow up in a healthy environment and have the chance for a better future.
In addition to helping your sponsored child and community directly, a small proportion (up to 3%) of your sponsorship payment will be used to address the underlying reasons for poverty. This may include public influence in Australia, engaging with governments on foreign aid, trade and other development issues as well as activities aimed at protecting children in developing countries from exploitation.

Do something TODAY!

What have you done lately to show the world you care?

Why not take action TODAY!
Write an email, sign a petition?? there are so many ways to help make a noise and join millions of other seeking social justice.
Below are just a few ways you can help NOW.

Take action now
» Tell Starbucks "fair is fair"
» Help create the world’s longest banner
» Write to Minister for Foreign Affairs
» Prove consumers care
» Buy Fairtrade coffee
» Make Poverty History - sign the petition
Sign a petition
» NikeWatch
» Make Poverty History
» Send us your sportswear receipts
Write a letter
» Write to the ALP
» Write to Minister for Foreign Affairs
» to the Prime Minister : poverty
» to Nike : factory wages
» to Minister Downer : AIDS, TB & Malaria
Become active locally
» Send an e-Card
» Raise awareness in your community
» Start a local Fairtrade group

National Close the Gap day

The national day of action – Tuesday 18 September 2007 – will give Australians across the nation the opportunity to come together and show their support for closing the 17-year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians.
We are asking you to organise a small-scale fun event in your workplace, school, home, church or community group – maybe over a cup of tea or coffee.
Wear black and white clothes
Wear a Close the Gap wristband
Screen the 5 minute Close the Gap DVD that we’ll provide you (either as a DVD or via the web)
Get your gathering to symbolically come together in a circle to pledge their support to Close the Gap
Send a postcard or e-card to your local politician and your friends. You can make your own e-card online to send with a photo of your gathering
Take a photo of your event and place it on the online map of Australia and see what other events are taking place around the country
Make a blog entry
Spell out Close the Gap in an imaginative way
Do anything else that could show your concern and be fun
Register today
Register now and we’ll be in contact with information and your DVD.
Order Close the Gap campaign materials.
Other events
We will also be organising events in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane – we’ll keep you informed about these. If you’d like to organise an event for the national day of action get in contact your state community campaigner.

Northern Territory social crisis

Revelations that there are deep social problems in many of our Indigenous communities are not new. Indigenous leaders have been warning for the past decade that a social crisis would emerge if federal, state and territory governments failed to provide Indigenous Australians with the opportunities and basic services other Australians take for granted: policing, primary health care, education, housing and real employment opportunities. We are now reaping what we have sown through the failure of successive governments to address the root causes of this crisis.
Now that this issue is finally on the national political agenda, immediate action is required to protect communities – and children in particular – while also addressing the underlying factors contributing to the cycle of abuse.
The Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory (CAO) has come up with such a plan and we are asking the federal and Northern Territory governments to adopt this plan as a matter of urgency.

Actions you can take
This issue is more important than party politics. We need a bi-partisan and long term approach to this issue:
Write to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs expressing your support for the CAO plan and asking the Government to work with Aboriginal communities and organisations in the Northern Territory to implement this plan.
Write to the Opposition leader and Shadow spokesperson expressing your support for the CAO plan and asking the Government to work with Aboriginal communities and organisations in the Northern Territory to implement this plan.