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Aug 06, 2023
Kalbarri Rebuild Fund – The Final Countdown

The Kalbarri Rebuild Fund was launched back in April, with the aim to raise $100,000 to support locals to repair homes damaged by Cyclone Seroja. Thanks to the generosity of people from all over Australia (and even overseas), we have raised $92,628 t...

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Oct 27, 2021
Kalbarri Rebuild Fundraising Update

The Kalbarri Rebuild Fund was launched on Tuesday 13 April 2021, with the aim to raise funds to support Kalbarri locals in the rebuilding of homes destroyed by Cyclone Seroja. Thanks to the generosity of everyone so far, as of 10 June 2021, we have r...

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Jun 10, 2021
Kalbarri – in the weeks since Cyclone Seroja

Written by Grace Crogan – Kalbarri Rebuild Fund. So, I agreed to write this blog post some days ago. It’s now very late in the evening, again (how does that keep happening!?), and I thought the best way to start this was to just be honest. I don’t th...

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Apr 27, 2021
Let’s Toast to a Better World

What if there was a way that you could make the world a better place by simply doing something as fun as enjoying a glass of wine? It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, it so happens that you can actually make the world a better place by e...

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Nov 26, 2020
The Pandemic Might Hit us, But it Won’t Break Us!

  The world as we knew it is gone! It’s hard to come to terms with the state the world is in right now. People have been infected, more have been affected. Lost incomes all around, masks on our faces, social distancing from friends and family.  It’s...

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Nov 20, 2020
2019 in Review: The Lives we touched This Year

How time flies! 2019 is coming to an end. It seems like yesterday when we toasted to a new year and made new resolutions. Did you stick to your resolutions? Don’t worry if you didn’t, very few people do. But do you know something you did that’s even...

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Nov 05, 2019
How Can We Conserve the Dying Karen Culture?

The year is 1997. Shwe Maung, a Burmese army general, walks on a Karen flag and publicly declares, “In 20 years, you will only be able to find Karen people in a museum.” Like a prophet of doom, his words seem to ring true with each passing year. Over...

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Sep 05, 2019
Another Win for Kong Dee and Echo International Aid

2019 seems like Kong Dee’s year. You remember Kong Dee, right? In case you don’t know who Kong Dee is, he is the first beneficiary of our Scholarship Program. Kong Dee has come a long way to get to where he is now. When we met him six years ago, Kong...

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Jul 04, 2019
Kong Dee’s Success Story

What are the chances for a stateless boy living as a refugee in a small village in the Thai/Burma region to realise his dream and travel overseas? The possibilities are very minimal, unfortunately. However, that isn’t the case for Kong Dee. Kong Dee...

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Mar 22, 2019