Working with kids on the Our Day Project
Right now Kelly and I are back in Timor Leste after an amazing week working with a primary school in the Northern Territory. The kids at the school are taking part in the Our Day Project, a film that…
Fine job, Charlie: how an 11-year-old got Australia's attention
One of the most tweeted articles this week wasn’t by the Prime Minister or an award-winning journalist – it was an opinion piece written by an 11-year-old boy. On Monday, Charlie Fine put forward…
Building child and youth participation in PNG
Three of us travelled to Port Moresby last week to work with our team there, building up our capacity to involve children and youth as active participants in activities that ChildFund supports. This…
International Mine Action Day: the challenge for Laos
Laos has the unwanted distinction of being the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world. The use of more than 270 million sub-munitions (called ‘bombies’ in Laos) released from cluster…