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Tuesday, 15 March 2011
World Vision Australia today launched an appeal to assist more than half a million people displaced by the powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan on Friday 11 March.
World Vision’s assessment team arrived in the worst hit region on Sunday to gauge the damage and the immediate needs of the survivors.
One of the assessment team ...
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Monday, 7 March 2011
On the eve of the centenary of International Women’s Day, Australia’s largest aid agency called on the Federal Government to help the thousands of women living in poor nations who die unnecessarily in child birth or during pregnancy each year.
“More than two million babies die on the day they are born every year in poor countries,” World Vision Australia’s ...
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Friday, 4 March 2011
The 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day will be celebrated at the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery in the Hunter Valley on 8 March with a visit from two women from Epenarra Artists, a remote Aboriginal art group in the Northern Territory.
Epenarra Artists are developing skills for self-management with the assistance of World Vision Australia. The project provides training, employment ...
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