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Jessamy Taylor

18 years old, Western Australia

I live north of Perth on a small rural property with my parents and my younger brother. I am blessed to have a supportive family, both immediate and extended.

In 2009 I graduated from Quinns Baptist College. This year I’m taking a gap year, devoting it to my involvement with World Vision, a bit of part time work, and also having some fun.

Next year I plan on studying Nursing, which I hope will open doors for me to assist either in Asia or Australia's North West community. My role-model for life is Jesus and I try to live by His instructions.

I have been actively fundraising in the 40 Hour Famine since Year 7, however, it wasn't until I attended the Perth Global Leadership Convention in Year 10 that I really grasped the concept of World Vision and I needed to get on board.

So why have I been stirred?

Poverty is real and I’ve realised the people living in poverty are often not to blame for the circumstances they find themselves in. I am blessed to be born into a good family in a wealthy country. I have been given the resources and the education to make a difference and to help make poverty history.

I am so excited to have the opportunity to work with the people at World Vision and to have the chance to inspire and stir the youth of WA!

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Latest Journal

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: ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Jessamy : It's August! Time to rev into the 40 Hour Famine!

6/08/2010 2:00:00 PM

Shout out to the fantastic schools that I visited this week:
Swan Christian College - what an amazing school, with dedicated teachers and students working to see an end to the poverty in our world. How amazing to see you have already set up your online Famine group not even ...

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Jessamy : VLog #1 - What is the hokey pokey anyway?

6/08/2010 12:47:50 PM

My first video blog I recorded on Day 3 of our Study Tour to Nepal at the start of 2010.

On the Youth Ambassador (YA) Study Tour, I travelled with the four other YA’s to see, touch and smell what life is like for people living in poverty in Nepal.

In ...

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Jessamy : Do you want my job?

29/07/2010 4:05:02 PM

Firstly, shout out to the awesome Vision Generation girls at Iona Presentation College. As a dedicated group of leaders in social justice issues you have really inspired me to work hard to make change in our world.

Also Padbury Senior High School, Peter Moyes Anglican Community School, ...

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Jessamy : Asking the Fairtrade question of Dome Coffee

16/07/2010 12:53:38 PM

When I walked into a Dome cafe on the weekend, I had no idea of what was about to happen.
I ordered my meal, and as I waited, I read some of Dome's brochures on how they only use the very best coffee beans. I felt quite annoyed as I ...

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Jessamy : Hiking the Bibbulmun Track

9/07/2010 2:11:44 PM

At the beginning of the week my friend and I spent two nights on the Bibbulmun Track (for the Eastern Staters, it is roughly a 1000 kilometre track through the South West of Western Australia). Over the three days we hiked on a narrow track over five mountains on the ...

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Jessamy : Child Labour: Simulation or Reality?

26/06/2010 11:13:26 PM

Last week World Vision staffers Darren and Julian, Lennon (WA Youth Ambassador from 2009) and I went to Hale School in Wembly Downs, to run the Matchbox Simulation with the Year 7 boys.

For anyone who has done the Matchbox Simulation will know that it is an intense 'game', ...

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Jessamy : Post GLCs - Don't stop til it's over!

15/06/2010 12:44:00 PM

WOW...What an amazing week this has been!
Today marked the annual Western Australian Global Leadership Convention (GLC) at the Perth Convention Centre. It was a full day event, with more than 300 students, plus their teachers, in attendance.

The students so inspired me with their awareness and enthusiasm to BE ...

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Jessamy: A message to everyone going to a Global Leadership Convention

3/06/2010 4:05:07 PM

This week I spoke to a class of Year 10s at my old school Quinns Baptist College. Thanks to Mr Lake for giving Abe (WV Youth Rep) and myself the opportunity to talk about the Importance of Water to your SOSE class. Thanks also to Paris and Jamie for ...

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Jessamy : Why do we want everything now?

27/05/2010 3:27:31 PM

This weekend I helped my Nanna babysit my two cousins, Liam (5) and Matthew (4), while their parents holidayed in Bali. The boys are pretty cool, and great at the PlayStation game of Lego: Star Wars. We went for a walk around the lake in their suburb, watched Freo ...

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Jessamy : What Jessica Watson teaches us about dreams

20/05/2010 12:17:03 PM

Last Saturday, Jessica Watson sailed into Sydney Harbour, completing her solo sail around the world. For the last 7 months she has fought the wind and the waves in her 10.3 metre yacht, and finally achieved her dream.

Some people said her dream was impossible because she was too ...

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Jessamy : No longer a game

13/05/2010 12:51:24 PM

Last week, a team from the World Vision Western Australian office went to Bunbury for two days to talk to students about the impact the Global Food Crisis is having on our world.
We talked to students from many schools, including: Fairview Primary School, West Busselton Primary School, Grace Christian College, ...

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Jessamy : 'Bepona' means 'reality'

29/04/2010 4:09:56 PM

Hey guys, enjoying the new 40 Hour Famine website?

Shout out to the Year 7's at St. Marks Anglican Cumminity School in Hillarys.
You guys are awesome, I loved chatting with you all on Tuesday.

And to the Tasmanians - I heard the Global Leadership Convention in Hobart went ...

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Jessamy : Nepal - beautiful place to visit, but...

21/04/2010 3:30:00 PM

I've just arrived back home in Perth from a 4-day 'weekend' in Melbourne. It was the first time seeing the other Youth Ambassadors since we went to Nepal together in January. It was awesome to spend some quality time with them, and remembering what we saw, smelt, felt, learnt in ...

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Jessamy : Travelling to Nepal was a once-in-a-lifetime experience

15/04/2010 4:12:50 PM

Travelling to Nepal with World Vision was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I saw the poverty of the people but there was also hope in their eyes.
For this year's 40 Hour Famine I’m going to camp outside: that means a tent with no mattress, a bush toilet, having to boil water ...

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