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Palms adds online donation facility

Palms Australia has now added improved online donation functionality to its website, including the capacity to target donations to specific placements or projects.

Register now for Melbourne and Mittagong

Following Focus Workshops in Brisbane and Sydney, Palms Australia will host more in the coming months in Mittagong and Melbourne

Volunteers continue humbly in "big business" of overseas aid

While senior executives and project managers in the aid industry receive up to $433,000 per year (“Aid workers earning more than Rudd”, The Australian, 18 Feb 2010), hundreds of hard-working and expert Australian volunteers humbly work for as little as 1% of these sums.

Latest Palms Post

This edition of Palms Post focusses on new placements Palms will be filling in 2010.

A number of new placements is viewed with each article highlighting a different element of the placement: from Community Development to commUNITY Support; from familial relationships to ongoing cross-cultural relationships.

We also meet Angelino from Timor-Leste, Palms' latest reverse immersion participant and hear from Monica Morrison, in the field in Timor-Leste.

Long-term office volunteer Damian Keane is farewelled and we conduct a pre-Christmas fundraising campaign to help place the profiled volunteers overseas.

Latest from the field

Our Mission is...

3. To advance mutually enriching and challenging relationships of understanding, acceptance and care, to the point of sharing worlds of meaning in the deepest sense, with people of a culture different from one's own.

Read our full mission statement

Cross-cultural courses

Places are now available at Palms Australia's 91st Orientation Course and Encounter Preparation Program to be held in Mittagong in July 2010.

Contact Palms Australia to attend.

Write to our volunteers

Read our volunteer profiles and newsletters and write a message of support.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands
to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. - Mahatma Gandhi