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Facilitating Mutual Development
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Reach Beyond Every Barrier
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Sustainable Solutions to Poverty
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Prioritising Local Initiatives
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Sustainable Solutions to Poverty
What we do
Since 1961 we have prepared qualified and experienced Australians for assignments abroad in 41 countries.
$200m
worth of expertise
120k
days of primary health services
65k
students educated
4000
locals trained in administration, trades & agriculture
Witness It All on a Life-Changing Journey
Two Week Encounter Tours to Timor-Leste, Samoa and Myanmar
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There is both a moral and social responsibility attaching to these experiences of foreign cultures, and if nothing awakens in our own soul, making claims and demands upon us, calling us to change the way we live, then we have been merely parasites and invaders.
David Tacey