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IT started as an online experiment to see if we could raise enough money to make a difference for needy kids in one tiny jungle village. And thanks to your generosity the reality far exceeded expectations with your donations smashing through the $10,000 target to give the children of Fote Village a real world Christmas they will never forget. The…
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YOU’VE done it. Thanks to the generosity of news.com.au readers, the kids from our adopted village in the Solomon Islands are about to have a Christmas they will never forget. The team from our partner charity, Little and LOUD, are leaving today for Fote Village laden with gifts after your donations successfully passed the $10,000 target in our crowdfunding project….
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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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THEY are separated by thousands of kilometres, from the sunburnt drought of the outback to the tropical jungles of the South Pacific. But the children from Clare Public School in rural Australia and Fote Village in the Solomon Islands know exactly what it is like to live in a remote community. This Christmas – through the work of an Australian…
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WITH your generous help we have already smashed through the halfway mark and then some to raise more than $6000 for the needy kids of Fote Village in our $10,000 Christmas charity drive. Since launching the news.com.au Adopt a Village “crowdfunding” project with the Little and LOUD, charity last week readers have added $6378 to the pool to help the…
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NEWS.com.au readers have raised almost $5000 to help the children of Fote in the Solomon Islands in our “Adopt a Village” crowdfunding project. The sum achieves the first four targets and gives the kids a Christmas celebration with a movie screening under the stars as well as buying much needed sporting equipment, art supplies and new library books for their…
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THEIR tiny village may seem remote but they are our neighbours. This year news.com.au is bringing Christmas to the needy children of Fote Village in the Solomon Islands by using the networking powers of the web to “crowdfund” a series of projects. How much we’ll be able to do will depend on the generosity of you – our readers. As…
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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…
