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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
Focus Workshops in NSW, SA and VIC
Following the successful Focus Workshop in Brisbane, Palms Australia will host more in the coming months in Sydney. Adelaide, 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.
Short-term volunteers needed in Glebe (or online)
While Palms Australia's core business is recruiting, preparing and supporting volunteers for long-term overseas placements, we also depend greatly on the ability of people who contribute their skills locally.
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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.
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.
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