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Anthony Jenyns | Bangladesh | Symbiosis Bangladesh

Conducted technical training to up-skill local workers in basic aquaculture, leading to an increase in food production for local communities.

"It has been encouraging working alongside Bengali farmers, observing sustainable methods of food production as they work hard to feed their families in a nation on of the most stretched and fragile farming environments in the world."

Australian Volunteers for International Development
Elizabeth Mullan | Philippines | United Church of Christ in Philippines

Integrated music into the curriculum of the Smokey Mountain II
Day Care Centre in order to support and enhance children's learning.

"In singing and performing songs, listening and responding to music, playing musical instruments and even creating instruments out of junk materials, we provide opportunities to enhance the children's self-esteem, build community spirit, aid their cognitive, emotional and physical growth and reinforce the value of education."

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development
Charlie Cristi | Cambodia | Cambodian Womens Crisis Centre

Involved in the implementation of a new project to provide support to local female students to increase their attendance at school.

"With these small changes, each girl will be able to attend class regularly, learn English and have better study practices with their other lessons."

Australian Volunteers for International Development
Tarina Rubin | Thailand | The Alliance for Safe Children

Involved in the management of Swim Safe Thailand, a program aimed at preventing the epidemic of child drowning in Asia by teaching survival swimming classes to children in both rural and urban environments.

"I get to see ... kids moving from fear to familiarity to confidence in the water; instructors developing confidence in their own teaching abilities as their experience grows and communities embracing the program and beginning to take on management for themselves."

Australian Volunteers for International Development
Danielle Prime | Nepal | Network for Cancer Treatment and Research

Conducted technical training to up-skill local workers in basic aquaculture, leading to an increase in food production for local communities.

"With the generous help of the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation we have vaccinated 4302 Nepali school girls and are working to deliver a school-based vaccination program."

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development
Dr Mike Kama | Fiji | Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control

Undertook research with the Communicable Diseases Branch of Queensland Health to assist in designing a more effective communicable disease control system in Fiji.

"I thought that would benefit me personally in terms of enhancing my skills in communicable disease control and that will then contribute to communicable control programs in my institution and also for the country and the Pacific as a whole."

Prime Minister's Pacific Australia Awards
Kym Hall | Indonesia | Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM)

Conducted technical training to up-skill local workers in basic aquaculture, leading to an increase in food production for local communities.

"The farm staff adopted the new methods because they could see the benefits first-hand. Training others in these methods generated a sense of pride and ownership which will endure."

Australian Volunteers for International Development
Australian Volunteers for International Development
Joel Silas | Papua New Guinea | Divine Word University

Engaged with staff at paediatric auditory-verbal charity Hear and Say Centre to explore opportunities associated with e-learning and how this technology can be utilised upon his return to Papua New Guinea.

"There are as many deaf children in Papua New Guinea as there are in all of Australia. Joel has made connections for us in his home town and at the nearby hospital so we are going to do birthing education for doctors and nurses to reduce the number of children who have difficult births and therefore have a potential disability." -Dr Dimity Dornan, Hear and Say Centre Managing Director

Prime Minister’s Pacific-Australia Awards