Category Archives: Charity

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Exercise YALARI

Lt. Col. Michael Bond Exercise YALARI 2011

In the Spring of 2011, a number of Army Reserve soldiers of the 9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment (9RQR), along with 37 Indigenous students committed a week of their school holidays to participate in a 102km walk, over 5 days, from Kilcoy to Cherbourg.

The inaugural 2011 walk was organized by Yalari.org to commemorate the original journey completed in 1902 by Aboriginal people who were forcibly relocated to the Cherbourg community.

I was privileged to have exclusive access to interview the organizers and participants and capture some of their insights, expectations and highlights of the commemorative experience.

Their stories are enlightening, humorous and inspirational.

Learn more about Yalari by clicking here.

Charity, Headline, Health |

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Give Blood

Every 3 months Natalee-Jewel donates blood.
It doesn’t cost anything except an hour of her day.

Every blood donation saves lives.

Whether your blood type is A, B, O or AB, your blood is a match for someone in need. So please become a donor today. You’re just the type to save lives.

Call 13 14 95 to make an appointment or to find your nearest blood donor center and book online, go to:

http://www.donateblood.com.au/

Charity, Headline, Personal Development |

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Better World Books

If you walked around Natalee-Jewel’s house you would think she was an avid reader. Piles and piles of books, in the kitchen; in the bathroom; on the bedside and on the stairs! However, it is her husband, Andrew, who is the uber nerd (Nat’s just a square). Andrew usually devours 6 books at a time and can regularly quote the exact contents of a page including the page number. The magazines, however, belong to Natalee-Jewel. A hyper-visual person books don’t really “do it” for her as she can’t read fast enough for her imagination to slow down. When Natalee-Jewel does come across a book worth taking the time to read, she’ll start at one place:

BETTER WORLD BOOKS

Andrew and Natalee-Jewel are proud supporters of Better World Books

Simply by ordering the books you want you can help fund literacy, care for the environment, and get the best prices with ridiculously cheap shipping.

Better World Books is the socially conscious consumer’s bookstore of choice.

Better World Books offers the lowest shipping rates on the Web: free shipping in the USA, and $3.97 shipping WORLDWIDE!

Better World Books offers these great rates because, unlike most other online used booksellers, they have all the used books physically in stock. At any one time, around 2.7 million books are on the shelves of their Indiana warehouse.

Buy your books from Better World Books and make a difference with your purchase; a portion of the money from each book you buy goes to nonprofit literacy partners!

Better World Books has raised over $7 million for over 80 literacy and education nonprofit organizations and libraries, including our 5 major partners, Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the NCFL, and Invisible Children.

Get a great price on over 6 million titles, new and used, and make an impact while you’re at it.


BetterWorldBooks.com


Buy Books. Save Green. Fund Literacy.


No Book Left Behind - BetterWorldBooks.com


Buy Books, Spread Literacy

Business, Charity, Headline |

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STREAT

If you are in Melbourne city & feeling a bit peckish head to Federation Square and grab some grub from the STREAT stall.

STREAT is a social enterprise providing homeless youth with a supported pathway to long-term careers in the hospitality industry. The organizers are working hard to establish a number of street cafes throughout Melbourne where youth get their hospitality training.

The STREAT food is inspired by street hawker food from around the world, but Natalee-Jewel highly recommends the Jamaican Chicken Wraps – they are awesome! And the guys make a mean coffee too 🙂

100 million young people live or work on the world’s streets. If you find this hard to swallow, use one of your life’s 80,000 meals to help this stop by eating with us.


All meals are made with fresh local and organic produce. Try STREAT’s hearty soup & crusty bread to warm you up this winter! You’ll be helping others help themselves.

Find STREAT @:

http://www.streat.com.au

and help raise awareness by joining STREAT on Facebook

Beauty, Charity, Eco, Headline, Health |

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Healthy Homes Initiative

I believe in living in homes that are not only built sustainably, but also keep us healthy from the inside.

Wherever possible, I avoid toxic chemical use.

The Healthy Homes Initiative was created to raise awareness about the dangers of toxic chemicals and harmful ingredients that are present in our everyday lives and to encourage every household to maximize their health and beauty by replacing products that contain harmful ingredients with safety conscious and environmentally friendly products.

The Healthy Homes Initiative tries to provide suggestions and find solutions rather than dwelling on the problems.

It is also intended to provide an open forum to discuss the various topics that are raised around this issue.Learn more about The Healthy Homes Initiative and join in the discussions.


Natural or Organic? What’s the difference?

Artificial Sweetners Vs. Nature

What is SLS & why is it so bad?

To find products that are free of harmful chemicals but still actually work, click here!