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Our 2011 Youth Ambassadors: Aaron, Clare, Will, Julia and Ashlee will be posting blogs throughout the year about their time as a Youth Ambassador and their trip to East Timor.

• Will : That’s (Not) All, Folks

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  Well, the 40 Hour Famine is winding up and this is my last blog as Youth Ambassador. Here’s a few final thoughts for all you lovely people.

  1: Get your money in

  Money makes the world go around and the sooner you get your money and books back to your group leader, the sooner they can get it into the hands of World Vision so the people of East Timor can start to benefit. Get on it!

  2: Thank you!

  I met some of the people whose lives will be affected and saw where the ...

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• Marissa : A Lifetime Journey

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  I feel very strange writing this – our last ambassador blog! Mixed emotions are flowing out; happiness and joy at what we’ve accomplished, sadness that it’s drawing to a close, massive hope and confidence that we have worked so hard to make a difference! The 40 Hour Famine has been an exciting and busy time of the year. We still have important things to do to collect sponsorships and bring in our money, but for the large part, it feels like a past event. Even on Facebook the ‘Events’ are now ‘Past Events’ and I ...

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• Julia : I Can’t Believe...

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  “I can’t believe I am on the plane, flying to have the most impacting experience of my life yet. I’m so excited, yet so nervous. But I’m ready to fight hunger”

  This is what I wrote in my journal during the flight from Perth to Melbourne, just before we all flew to East Timor in January. Now the experience has happened. I’ve come home, shared the stories and been a voice for the voiceless. And now that the 2011 40 Hour Famine is over, it’s time to say goodbye to as this year’s Youth Ambassador ...

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• Claire : Final Blog

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  I can’t believe how insanely quickly this year has gone! The 40 Hour Famine is over, the majority of my talks at your schools, churches and social justice groups are over, and this is my final blog! Being a Youth Ambassador has been such an incredible learning experience.  A year ago, I was someone who was passionate about social justice – now I’m someone that wants to dedicate my entire life to it. I knew very little about East Timor – now I’ve seen the suffering people endure there each day. I cared about ...

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• Ashlee : One Piece at a Time

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  The 40 Hour Famine is now over which means, sadly, it’s time for me to say goodbye to you all in one last blog. I thought it would be a good idea to recap on some of the things I have mentioned over the last couple of months.

  In my first blog, I challenged you all to commit to doing one thing every week to help in the fight against poverty. How many of you have been keeping up with this? As youth ambassador, I know for a fact that there are so many of ...

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• Will : The 8766 Hour Famine

  Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  I don’t know about you guys, but I am glad my 40 hours without furniture is over. It was much harder than I thought it would be. Every time I thought about how hard it was, I tried to remember how hard it is for people in East Timor to make the best of things day by day.

  When I got embarrassed sitting on the ground in public, I remembered how Lili told us she was embarrassed when the other kids teased her about how poor she was. When I woke up on the floor ...

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• Marissa : Giving More Than We Can Spare

  Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  Charity – giving to the poor – is an essential part of Christian morality: in the frightening parable of the sheep and the goats it seems to be the point on which everything turns. Some people nowadays say that charity ought to be unnecessary and that instead of giving to the poor we ought to be producing a society in which there were no poor to give to. They may be quite right in saying that we ought to produce this kind of society. But if anyone thinks that, as a consequence, you can stop ...

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• Julia : There's Still Time!

  Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  One month to go until the funds that we raised during the 40 Hour Famine this year are due in on 30 September! Just because the official famine weekend is over, doesn’t mean fundraising comes to an end. We still have one month to carry on fundraising and collecting all those donations that were promised. So don’t give in now, keep going! This fight against poverty that we are fighting is such a critical one, and so far everyone has done such an awesome job, so let’s keep it up!  

  We only have one ...

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• Claire : Looking Back

  Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  The 40 Hour Famine is over, and I would love to hear about some of your experiences. What did you go without? Was it more difficult than you thought it would be? Did it help you gain a little more understanding of how people all over the world live every day? It certainly did for me. If you’ve been following my blogs, you’ll know that I lived on just one small bowl of rice a day for a week – a seven meal week. I did this because people in East Timor, far too many ...

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• Ashlee : So Now What?

  Wednesday, 31 August 2011

  Now that the 40 Hour Famine is over, some of you may be wondering how you can keep on helping in the fight against hunger. The great thing is that the 40 Hour Famine is only one of the many different campaigns and programs that World Vision offers. Take a look at all of these amazing things you can be part of:

  Vision Generation (VGen): VGen is the youth movement of World Vision and is primarily focused on awareness raising and advocacy. There are two campaigns running at the moment; ‘Don’t Trade Lives’ and ‘Child ...

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