Karli Borresen wants to take your money . . . for a really good cause. The Avondale College of Higher Education graduate, one of a record 349 eligible to march during yearend services, December 6-8, supported a few of these causes as a major in international poverty and development studies and in marketing.
Legacy lives
Wednesday, May 16, 2012Student mission club COSMOS called its fundraising concert Change Is Coming. The generous response means change is a little bit closer for the girls boarding at Tonea School in India.
No voice gives voice
Wednesday, November 2, 2011Ben Keri is scribbling on a notepad. “Being mute has shown me the difficulties of not having a voice in society.” The international development studies major accepted the challenge of Avondale College of Higher Education student mission club COSMOS to go 40 hours without hearing, seeing or talking.
Green Week brings new life to Avondale
Wednesday, September 28, 2011Avondale staff members and students plant 400 trees during Green Week on the college of higher education’s Lake Macquarie campus.
Hide and seek
Thursday, May 5, 2011It is confronting: on any given night, 105,000 people in Australia are homeless, with nearly half of these under the age of 25. These statistics motivated two Avondale College of Higher Education students to raise awareness of the issue by spending a night outside covered only by cardboard boxes.
Students walk 4 water
Tuesday, November 16, 2010Members of an Avondale College student club have risked sore feet and sunburn on a 25-kilometre hike that raised $1000 for clean water in Malawi.
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