Plan Australia

Media Releases

05-February-2008
Sri Lankan children are back to school too thanks to Victorian Government $1.2 million tsunami grant

As children around Australia returned to school last week, 3000 Sri Lankan children - whose schools were damaged or destroyed by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami - are back to school with smiles stretching half-way around the world to Australia, thanks to international development agency Plan and a $1.2 million grant from the Victorian Government.

08-January-2008
Plan receives Australian Research Council grant to develop youth-led education program

Plan Australia, in partnership with the Youth Research Centre, at the University of Melbourne, and RMIT University, has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project grant, valued at $283,000 over three years for the Global Connections Program.

Media Releases Archive

15/10/07
The facts of girls living in poverty
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: 17 October
8/10/07
Pakistan Earthquake 2005: Plan reports two years on
13/07/07
NEW RESEARCH REPORT: Youth perspectives on the crisis in East Timor
16/05/07
Girls still facing intolerable situations; The State of the World's Girls 2007
21/12/06
Tsunami 2nd Anniversary: Plan schools bring wave of opportunity for Aceh's children
20/12/06
Charity gifts become 'gift of choice' for more Australians
30/11/06
Win a journey aboard the Tamworth Country Music Train
29/11/06
Jamie Durie makes a difference for Africa's children
28/11/06
Preaching at children about AIDS will not stop the spread of HIV, warns expert
23/11/06
Tripod and Matt Tilley to bring music & mirth to Christmas fundraiser
22/11/06
Adelaide business identity Anne Skipper appointed Chair of Plan
20/11/06
Archbishop Desmund Tutu backs Plan's call for universal birth registration
20/11/06
FREE World AIDS Day Film Screening
17/11/06
Kenzoamour this Christmas is a Gift of Love for children in India
6/10/06
Global Poverty on Australian Classroom Curricula
7/09/06
Games Fish hook $46,000 to help children
28/08/06
International aid agency CEO attends Australian leaders 'brain-storm'
28/08/06
Hook a Games Fish on eBay and help children
18/08/06
Melbourne's children walk to rebuild Java
15/08/06
Children's voices heard at Toronto XVI International AIDS Conference
27/06/06
Jamie's Journey - Hope for Uganda's Children
25/06/06
International Community Must do More to Treat HIV-positive Children
8/06/06
Sierra Leone boy benefits from Prahran's good vibes
8/06/06
Vulnerable children a priority in East Timor
31/05/06
Plan provides emergency assistance to Indonesian earthquake survivors
29/05/06
Plan provides assistance to displaced as violence escalates in East Timor
22/05/06
Early childhood care in the developing world
18/05/06
Oakleigh Renault dealer forms link with Paraguay
18/04/06
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks visits Sri Lanka
2/03/06
Craig Mottram Wears His Heart on His Wrist
19/02/06
Plan responds to landslide in The Philippines
15/12/05
Children and the tsunami: the first 12 months
2/12/05
Craig Mottram joins Plan to support the Commonwealth's children
2/12/05
A plan to help reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa
19/10/05
Pakistan: Time running out for earthquake children
11/10/05
Plan assists Pakistan's earthquake survivors
10/10/05
Plan begins relief efforts in Pakistan
8/09/05
A Plan to extend the Commonwealth Games goodwill
22/08/05
600 million children miss out while Asia marches on
17/08/05
Tom Miller, new international CEO of Plan, visits Australia
27/07/05
Urgent action needed for children in famine-affected Niger
15/07/05
Films by children speak from the heart
28/06/05
White band action day unites Australians
23/06/05
Tsunami rebuilding helps children to heal
31/05/05
Pre-schools opened to honour Bali bombing tragedy
26/05/05
Celebrities and students strut the catwalk for Sri Lanka
29/03/05
Child trauma training in Aceh - a timely response by Plan
25/03/05
Aceh children part of plan to rebuild school
22/03/05
Plan and Kangan Batman TAFE present 'The Asian Garden'
19/03/05
East Timor water program launched
10/03/05
Australian fashion models take to catwalk in Melbourne for Chinese contest
15/02/05
Postmasters Office Australian Music Tour
13/02/05
Indian children benefit from Bollywood film night.
10/02/05
Arts supporting Plan Australia Tsunami Appeal
- Photo Call
1/02/05
Rebuilding Schools for Children in Aceh
28/01/05
Plan showcases child-friendly village in Sri Lanka
27/01/05
Tsunami Fundraising at Heineken Classic
20/01/05
Dymocks Putting children and education first in Aceh
17/01/05
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra helps tsunami appeal
13/01/05
Indonesian Buddhists hold tsunami benefit
13/01/05
Child protection risk for lost children in tsunami-devastated areas
13/01/05
National Day of Mourning
7/01/05
Grassroots fundraising ideas for Plan\'s Rebuild Asia Appeal
4/01/05
Plan in Indonesia to help children in post-tsunami aid effort
2/01/05
Tsunami devastation in Plan program area in Sri Lanka
31/12/04
First details from Plan communities in Sri Lanka
31/12/04
Seeing the devastation first-hand. Plan staff visit southern coast of Sri Lanka
31/12/04
Plan Tsunami Appeal for children in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, and Thailand
29/12/04
Plan reports from southern coast of Sri Lanka
28/12/04
Tsunami In Asia: Plan rushes to help children. Plan staff on the ground in worst-hit Sri Lanka

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