Community

"Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless." Isaiah 1:17

Mercy Ships - A floating hospital on the west coast of Africa providing free dental and surgical treatment.

Medicins Sans Frontieres - delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

Tim Tebow Foundation - Currently raising funds to build a children's hospital in the Phillipines (ground breaking early 2012. Project completion circa 2013.)

Operation Smile - I love this organisation! These people go round the world fixing up cleft palates and other facial deformities.

China California Heart Watch - Cardiology outreach in rural China.

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My favourite picture!
Koalas are cute.

Somethingood - (partially defunct) links. This was my passion project when I was a teenager. After I left the country it was passed on to the younger ones who officially registered it as a fundraising organisation.

Somethingood04 - Inaugural busking festival in aid of the Children's Cancer Foundation
Somethingood06 - in aid of the Bone Marrow Donor Program
Somethingood07 & the SomethingREALLYgood Concert- in aid of Children At Risk Empowerment (CARE)
Somethingood08 - in aid of Make a Wish Foundation

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Baker IDI - The Alfred, Melbourne

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