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Firstly, we would like to once again and officially welcome Sarah Grosh for joining the Little and LOUD team! Sarah is an Art Educator and is going to be working on setting up Little and LOUD in the United States. Please read more information about her, on our About page under the section, “The Team”. Rhoda and Sarah will be…
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When approached by my brother, John, with the idea of doing some volunteer work in the Solomon Islands, my first question was, where’s the Solomon Islands? Apart from hearing the name once or twice in my life I didn’t know where it was and knew even less about what goes on there. I soon learnt a bit about the country…
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A tropical holiday to the Solomon Islands turned into something of a vocation for 25-year-old Alexandria resident Michelle Roland. She and her friend Mirjam Verkleij travelled to the small island of Malaita, where they planned to help out for a few days at the Fote village school. “We thought we’d be going to a school of about 60 children, but…
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MIRJAM Verkleij, 25, is a nurse who was the first of the Little and LOUD team to work at Fote Village. Here she tells us how the vision started. Going to the Solomon Islands had already fulfilled my dreams to travel to the unknown but when my friend Michelle (Roldan, Little and LOUD co-founder) sent me an email to tell…
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MICHELLE Roldan is a 25-year-old graphic designer from Sydney who first went to the Solomon Islands for a creative holiday break Here she tells what it was like on her first visit to Fote Village Primary School with Little and LOUD co-founder Mirjam Verkleij: We had no real idea about where the village was, how remote, small or big it…
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RHODA Lazo is 33-year-old online producer who lives in Sydney. Here she tells how going to the Solomons changed her life. When I made the trip to Fote and met the children the experience affected me in ways that I couldn’t imagine. I was humbled by the reality of their immense human spirit. Staying with a local family, sharing their…
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Michelle and I met with the digital arm of a very prominent Media company yesterday and the Editor was so stoked, he offered to work with us in the middle of the presentation! There was mention of a blog, video interviews with us, and an overall ongoing support for months into the next year. This is basically the biggest break…
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It’s inevitable that you get reflective after having just experienced something so unexpected but unforgettable. Here’s a roughly composed article of what I scribbled when I arrived home from the Solomons.
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I read that once on a greeting card. I felt like it was giving me a high five because I grew up with a similar philosophy that on average, you only really get about half of what you dream of so the best strategy to get what you want is to dream big. Huge. Dare I say, colossal. Kind of…
