Posts Tagged ‘Faculty of Arts and Theology’
that design: a retrospective
Friday, November 7, 2014East meets West
Thursday, September 18, 2014Nepalese women share maternal health message
Lawson Hull
Public relations intern
Avondale College of Higher Education
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
Three women’s rights advocates have presented a seminar at Avondale as part of an Australian speaking tour to raise awareness of maternal health in Nepal.
Studies indicate about 600,000 women in the landlocked country suffer from uterine prolapse, says one of the advocates, Dr Angela Basnet. Young marriages and heavy workloads, particularly while pregnant, are the two main causes. The cost of the medical procedure to permanently treat it: $300.
“We need to inspire change, particularly in rural communities, by raising awareness of uterine prolapse and by helping women suffering from it receive a second life in ways that respect our culture and traditions,” says Angela, a consultant physician for the Community Service Academy Nepal.
Education, for women and men, is one of the keys to success. It will “reduce the problem, not eliminate it, and open up opportunities to help more and more women,” says Samita Pradhan, co-founder of the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development. She speaks highly of women in Nepal, despite the way they are marginalised, describing their resilience as the factor that “will ultimately lead to change.”
Samita’s not-for-profit entity, along with the entity for which Angela works, are partners of Asian Aid, which presented the seminar. Joshua Moses is one of its communication coordinators. “If people in the West were more globally minded about people in the East,” he says, “health issues could be far closer to being cared for.”
Artist makes mural with kiwi kids
Thursday, September 4, 2014Ends lecturer’s week-long school-based intensive
An Avondale visual arts lecturer has helped staff members and students from a New Zealand primary school create an outdoor painting celebrating their Christian multiculturalism.
The 4.8- by 2.4-metre mural by Andy Collis and the South Auckland Seventh-day Adventist School depicts a contemporary Jesus surrounded by children in a New Zealand native fauna and flora setting. The border borrows from traditional decorative symbolism to describe the creation story.
The unveiling came at the end of a week-long art intensive Andy, with wife Sally, delivered to the school’s 305 pupils and to its teachers.
Story shows there is no substitut de qualité
Thursday, April 17, 2014Student shortlisted for travel writing competition
A small French village and her lecturer’s “gentle prodding” inspired an Avondale English major to write a story shortlisted for a regional travel competition.
Bon Appetit by Bianca Reynaud featured as one of the top 20 stories at a live read hosted by Hunter Writers’ Centre at The Unorthodox Church of Groove in Newcastle on March 29. The narrative, a retelling of a lunch served in the backyard of a chalet in Montailloset, helps the reader understand the vagaries of the French meal experience.
“I was starved for an hour before the meal, served tiny portions of heavenly food, then terrorised with all manner of cheeses,” says Bianca, who studied at the Adventist University of France for two years. The longer she lived in the country, “the more I loved the culture and heritage of the eating ritual—right down to setting the table.”
Bianca wrote Bon Appetit for a print journalism class. Lecturer Dr Carolyn Rickett’s mentoring “inspired me to write like I never have before.”