Hawke Ambassador International Volunteer Experience Program
Coordinated by the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages and The Hawke Centre
2010 Hawke Ambassadors
Alex Doudy received a Cowan International Placement Grant for the Hawke
Ambassador Program while she was undertaking a Bachelor of
Journalism/Bachelor of Arts International Studies. In 2010, with the help of
the $2,500 grant, Alex spent three months in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Projects Abroad
- Rachel Baker
- Anna Benton
- Nick Birrell (Argentina)
- Alina Eacott (Peoples Republic of China)
- Tessa Henwood-Mitchell
- Michael Jessop (Mexico)
- Lincoln Rothall
- Kyla Raby (Ghana)
- Kimberley Robertson (Ghana)
Red Cross/Oxfam/Australian Refugee Association - local
- Arn Duncan
- Ian Swift
- Elise Beacom
World Youth International
- Kimberley Hampel (Kenya)
- Jessica Roberts
- Alison Wells
Global Vision
- Trent Lawson (Ghana)
AIESEC
- Elissa McKenzie
Gap Activity Projects
- Monika Deptula
Full list of Ambassadors
| Kimberley Hampel Kimberley Robertson William McGinley Monica Scholtyssek Luke Ebbs Bartosz Zubrzycki Belinda Spagnoletti Ian Swift Elissa Mckenzie Jessica Roberts Michael Jessop Collette Brown Alison Wells Alina Eacott Kyla Raby Elise Beacom Jessica Haynes Philip Bohnsack |
Noyan Abbas Arn Duncan Jessica Jeffery Rachel Baker Gemma Wood Leah Crompton Alexandra Doudy Lincoln Rothall Elise Applebee Nicholas Birrell Monika Deptula Anna Benton Alison Burfield Jamie-Lee Oldfield Georgia Oliver Bethany Van Huynh Jacqueline Ewens Crystal Stephens |
Sionnie Kelly Christopher Hills Rachel Grove Luke Liddiard Elle Spring Trent Lawson Tessa Henwood-Mitchell Kate Breuer Shireen Ravesteyn Heather McAllister Melanie Womersley Abbey Kendall Gilson Riva De Guzman Thomas Woods-Kerruish Eloise Fuss Pauline Ledermann Abbey Rawson Zoe Darling Ryan Mallett-outtrim Daniel Feher |
2007 Hawke Centre Ambassadors
Report from Luke Ebbs - World Youth International (Kenya)
On Mondays and Tuesdays, I'm working for a community centre in a
town called Ugunja, which is just near the border of Kenya and Uganda. I am
writing stories for a community newsletter on local issues and also writing
transcripts for a community radio station.
I spend one a day a week working for another community centre which provides
primary schooling for kids who cannot afford education. I am teaching
English and simple maths and may also be teaching classes on sexual health
and conducting AIDS awareness programs in the near future.
My main project is to do with 'street kids.' These are children that live on
the streets of Kisumu, the third biggest city in Kenya. There are hundreds
of these kids, some as young as three, that have left home for all kinds of
complicated reasons. Many have been orphaned by malaria and AIDS and have no
where else to go. Some have been kicked out of home because their mothers
have re-married and step-fathers refuse to raise another man's child.
Extreme poverty drives most of them to the streets where they manage to
survive by begging or stealing. 90 per cent of the kids were sniffing glue
all night long to kill their hunger and keep warm, and many of them hard
scars and infected wounds from where the police had beat them.
At the moment, there is an organisation in the city that provides a
day-shelter for the kids. Here, the kids give up their glue bottles and in
return they get a feed and are given free schooling. The aim of the shelter
is to rehabilitate kids back into society by getting them sponsered or
reuniting them with their families.
The day shelter is great, but it's not enough. The kids come in the day, get
a free feed, play sport, learn a thing or two and then return to the street
life where they go back to sniffing glue and getting into trouble. My aim is
to fund a night shelter, where the kids can eat a good dinner and sleep at
night without being beaten and bitten my malarious mosquitoes. This is where
i need your help....