Live Below the Line
This year some of our staff here at Lattitude will be taking part in Oaktree Foundation’s Live Below the Line campaign. Five staff members will live on less than $2 a day from Monday 7 until Friday 11 May and experience what it’s like to live below the poverty line.
Vanuatu Orientation in Port Vila
Country: Vanuatu Role: Teacher
On Saturday 4 February, 17 volunteers arrived in Vanuatu from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK for their orientation. The week-long orientation is usually held on Nguna Island, however with Cyclone Jasmine lurking it was conducted in Port Vila instead. This didn’t stop the volunteers from having to spend one day of their orientation in lockdown though… quite a unique welcome to Vanuatu!
Fijian Orientation
Country: Fiji
Bula! On Wednesday 18 January, 24 Lattitude volunteers arrived in Nadi, Fiji for their five day orientation. There were a mix of 9 Australians, 8 Brits, 5 Kiwis and 2 Canadians who were slowly assimilated into the Fijian way of life.
Pre departure briefings for 2012 vols
Fiji Pre Departure Briefing
Late last year we conducted 19 Pre Departure Briefings around Australia to prepare this year’s volunteers for their time away. The briefings were held in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney and provided a great opportunity for volunteers and their family members from each area to meet each other and hear more about what lays ahead.
Information Nights 2011
Alex James entertaining the crowd at the Melbourne Information Night
Our series of Information Nights for 2011 have just concluded and went really well this year.
Sessions have been held in Darwin, Wodonga, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne.