Reaching out beyond our community - a staff initiative
Support for projects that assist less advantaged communities than ours
GLCH staff get together twice each year to share information, network with staff across sites and discuss major developments within the organisation.
At one of these meetings in September 2009, staff members suggested supporting a charity outside of the organisations service/catchment area with personal donations, fundraising or volunteering, but as part of a GLCH team effort.
Staff were surveyed for charity ideas - one Australian and one Overseas charity - and then voted for their favourite. The following charities were selected for the GLCH staff initiative to support projects that assist less advantaged communities than ours:
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS) is a not-for-profit charitable organisation that provides free aeromedical emergency and comprehensive healthcare services to people who live, work and travel in regional and remote Australia. The RFDS relies on funding from private donations, philanthropic grants, private trusts, events and community fundraising to provide more than $20 million a year to ensure that their life-saving services are maintained.
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Tabitha's aim is to reach out to the despairing in their communities and help them to address their own needs in a holistic and sustainable way. Community development is achieved by encouraging personal savings, providing employment and income by teaching and selling Cambodian handcrafted items, providing clean water and house-building by volunteers for families who cannot afford a home. Thereby transforming lives to fruitfulness with dignity. 100% of donations are applied to the programs in Cambodia, zero overheads. GLCH staff members are volunteering to go on a house-building trip to Cambodia in 2011. |
Staff support of a charity is VOLUNTARY! Staff contribute via automatic payroll deductions and a cheque will be presented to each charity at the end of each financial year, on behalf of GLCH staff.
It is a reflection of the caring and compassionate people employed here at GLCH that this initiative was suggested by staff.
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