International Women's Day  

Quaker Service Australia sends greetings to all its project partners on International Women's Day. There are so many women involved in all our projects as coordinators, participants and volunteers, and this is a time to acknowledge their contribution and recognise the significant contribution of women all around the world to alleviating poverty.

New Project Partner in Australia

The QSA Aboriginal Concerns Fund recently entered into a new partnership with the Warburton remote Aboriginal Community in Western Australia. Wilurarra Creative (formerly known as Warburton Youth Arts) is a multidisciplinary art centre with an ongoing arts and cultural program for young Indigenous people aged 17 - 30yrs from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. To find out about Wilururra Creative and the project QSA is funding, click here.

Photo (credit Wilurarra Creative):Lalla taught a group of young women to make Wirras (metal digging bowls) from old car bodies.

Uganda Emergency

Our thoughts are with all the people affected by the mudslides in Uganda. We hear that hundreds of people are missing and more than 80 people have already died in the series of mudslides that happened on Monday night. Quaker Service Australia suggests that anyone wishing to support disaster recovery send funds to the Ugandan Red Cross via the Australian Red Cross. For information about our project partners in the Mt Elgon region, please contact the QSA office.