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December 2009
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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.
View the Complete December 2009 Palms Post here (1382 kB)
or read individual articles by following the links below.
Articles
Director's Report Christmas: Giving and Receiving New Life
Give a Volunteer this Christmas and be ready to receive.
The volunteer bug (New placements)
Angelino’s story
Continuing a Longitudinal relationship with Ahisaun New Placements
MDG 4: Reduce Child Mortality; MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health
Community Development in Uganda New placements
Letter from the field
Local community engagement New placements
Volunteers need not be damaging
Rest in Peace Br Damian Keane OH 1928 - 2009
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 January 2011.
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