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Youth Ambassadors Blogs

Our five Youth Ambassadors have travelled to Nepal to meet the people where poverty is a constant struggle.

They're now charged with the awesome responsibility of coming back home to talk to the media, their schools, their community, their church about their experience and what they learned.

Follow them through the year via their blogs here!

• Jessamy : My 168 Hour Famine

  27/08/2010 8:00:00 PM

  This year I have done the 40 Hour Famine a little differently, and longer. I extended it for 5 days, for a total of 168 hours, and had a go of going without several different things. Why? I wanted to experience hunger and deprivation longer than 40 hours.

  
  

  Sunday 15th: The BBQ

  On Sunday night I invited my friends and family over to share a ...
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• Georgia : By giving up, you have given out

  27/08/2010 6:02:01 PM

  Over the famine weekend, it was eye opening for me to see the amount of you who truly got behind the whole idea of ‘giving up’. Whether it be giving up the use of both your arms while not talking, or giving up your bed to sleep under a bridge in a cardboard box for the night, or giving up your identity. 
  

    

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• Tom : Learning by Feel

  27/08/2010 5:57:39 PM

  I don't think I know very much about experiencing hardship. Any hardship - including the many associated with poverty - has to be experienced to be fully known. 
  

  
  

  In the same way that watching James Bond movies helps us understand what its like to be a secret agent, doing the 40 hour famine helps us understand what its like to live in poverty. 

  It doesn't. ...
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• Jasmine : Famine Fever!!!

  27/08/2010 4:15:00 PM

  Over the weekend approximately 300,000 young people across Australia were filled with Famine Fever!!! Here in Queensland, our temperatures were high, our hearts were racing, and we were showing symptoms of passion, excitement and enthusiasm!

  All our symptoms combined to create one successful famine weekend!
  Congratulations Queensland! You were amazing!!

   

  Together we highlighted that youth are capable of making a difference in the world!...
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• Hamish : The Famine…over? Wha!?!?

  27/08/2010 4:00:00 PM

  Well it’s true!

  And unlike the election - which seems to have been a huge anti-climax- the famine took OFF last weekend. It was sort of like Christmas, there’s so much build-up that when it finally happens it seems it’s over all too soon.

  Well, let’s recap Famine Week as it happened in Victoria:

  So the build-up was super intense. I managed to get around ...
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• Hamish : VLog #4 - The day I met Bepona

  19/08/2010 1:45:00 PM

  The day I met Bepona (whose name translates to 'Reality'). A harrowing day. May it never fade from my memory, nor from your imaginations. Because it will never fade from hers.

  Each of the Youth Ambassadors were deeply affected by Bepona's story, which tended to pop up throughout the blogs they've posted here this year.

  This is Hamish's fourth and final Video Blog (VLog) ...
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• Jasmine : VLog #3 - The Hard Life

  19/08/2010 12:00:00 PM

  

  Jasmine's third and final Video Log (VLog) from her time in Nepal at the start of 2010 on the World Vision Study Tour.

  The hard life in rural Nepal is very different to the 'hard life' we experience (or think we experience) here in Australia. The choices people have to make and the consequences of those choices are very confronting.

  Jas talks about some of ...
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• Jessamy : VLog #3 - Meeting Jumla

  19/08/2010 10:00:00 AM

  Jessamy's third and final Video Log (VLog) from her time in Nepal at the start of 2010 on the World Vision Study Tour.

  In this video, Jessamy had recently met a 17 year old girl named Jumla, who had recently been freed from a life as a domestic worker. For eleven years, Jumla had done a wide range of hard work that is unimaginable to us as ...
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• Georgia : VLog #3 - Walking to India

  18/08/2010 5:00:00 PM

  

  Staying just two kilometres from the Indian border allowed the Youth Ambassadors the novel opportunity to 'walk to India' in the morning - how many of us can say we've done that?

  On the way though, Georgia was approached by a beggar and challenged in the knowledge that she had plenty of food and money in her backpack that could change these children's lives - ...
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• Tom : VLog #3 - Remembering Reality

  18/08/2010 1:00:00 AM

  

  This video is all about Reality. Sometimes when you're just doing your own thing, you come across someone or something that just shocks you. Its so foreign and different that it takes a while to sink in that its real.

  That's what meeting Bepona (which means 'Reality' when translated) was like. We were just walking down the valley, we came across this wooden house ...
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• Hamish : VLog #3 - What does adversity look like in Nepal?

  17/08/2010 1:38:00 PM

  Seeing kids hiking up mountains desperately looking for food, seeing women crippled beneath the weight of heavy loads, and seeing fathers crying as they contemplate the future of their families when their failing crops run out - this is the kind of adversity I saw that day.

  This is the kind of life that I saw that day. This is the reality which we don't ...
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• Georgia : VLog #2 : Youthful looks

  16/08/2010 3:00:00 PM

  Georgia's second Video Log (VLog) from her time in Nepal at the start of 2010 on the World Vision Study Tour.

  Meeting people who look almost twice their age is confronting, yet getting behind their stories and understanding the full picture of their circumstances is really powerful too.

  Again, Georgia and the Youth Ambassadors were made aware of the challenges facing the Nepali people in ...
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• Hamish : VLog #2 : Are you ready Australia?

  16/08/2010 2:00:00 PM

   The kids in Nepal are ready. Are you ready Australia?

  This is Hamish's second Video Log (VLog) from his time in Nepal at the start of 2010 on the World Vision Study Tour. He travelled with four other YA's to see, touch and smell what life is like for people living in poverty in Nepal.

   If you are ready to respond, post a comment in ...
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• Jasmine : VLog #2 - Poverty is bigger than we think it is

  16/08/2010 11:31:30 AM

  Jasmine's second Video Log (VLog) from her time in Nepal at the start of 2010 on the World Vision Study Tour.

  As the Study Tour headed rural away from Kathmandu, life is very different: It's slower, quieter and there is a sense of hopelessness in the area they visit.

  "This was a confronting experience and made me realise that the issue of poverty is much bigger ...
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• Jessamy : VLog #2 - Responding to beggars

  16/08/2010 10:57:10 AM

  

  Jessamy's second Video Blog (VLog) from her time in Nepal at the start of 2010.

  Whilst travelling from Kathmandu to the airport in the early stages of their trip, Jessamy and the Youth Ambassadors are confronted by a small boy begging and asking for food.

  It's far and away from their experiences in Australia, but the challenges and decisions are still similar.

  What do you do ...
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• Tom : Vlog #2 - Education does make a difference

  14/08/2010 10:00:00 AM

  In my second VLog, I talk about one girl we met in Nepal who have twice repeated classes at school because she wasn't supported and able to stay in school and she had dropped out.

  
  

  World Vision's education programs really can change people's lives and the whole community.

  To find out more about the initiatives supported from this year's 40 Hour Famine, check our page ...
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• Jessamy : Spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry

  13/08/2010 5:20:35 PM

   With less than two weeks to go until the Famine, I found it so encouraging to hear Isaiah 58:10 read out in my local Church on the weekend.
  "Spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed..."
   
  No matter what faith background you come from can you join with me in a dream:
  To free those living in oppressed ...
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• Georgia : Can you help me?

  13/08/2010 3:57:08 PM

  When I visit schools, not only do I tell students about my trip to Nepal, but I also sing a song that I wrote while I was in Nepal.

  The song is called ‘Can you help me?’ and it is about the many people that I met in Nepal who don’t have a voice, and who can’t speak up and ask for help, or ...
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• Jasmine : Just Keep Going!

  13/08/2010 2:56:56 PM

  I’m really excited because in a few days my Grandparents will be visiting me. They live in a small country town on the New South Wales/Victorian border, and will be driving all the way up to Queensland to see me!!
  
  As their arrival draws ever so near, my mind flashes back to some great memories I had with them when I was younger.

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• Hamish : The tyranny of distance

  13/08/2010 2:01:43 PM

  This week I hit up regional Victoria. It was a bit of a mammoth journey!

  In just under a week I travelled to Heywood and District Secondary, Hamilton and Alexandria College, Terang College, Warrnambool Secondary, the GLC team from Brauer College and finally Timboon P-12 College with World Vision staffer Rob Waddell.

  ...And breathe.
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