The Brave Discussion

The School of St Jude is the remarkable story of an Australian girl from the bush who’s busy transforming the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of African children. Her name is Gemma Sisia, and she runs a school in Tanzania called The School of St Jude. Gemma is the only daughter of Sue and [...]

By guest blogger Judy Molland. Canyon Sam is a woman with a passion: telling the world about the part that the women of Tibet have played in the tragic history of that country. Sam is a third generation Chinese-American who grew up in San Francisco, California. Determined to go back to China to seek out [...]

We all have talents and we all have what psychologists now call ‘harmonious passions‘. That is: harmonious passion  freely chosen for the pleasure that comes from the activity, a concept very similar to intrinsic motivation. Harmonious passion is characterized by autonomy and flexible persistence. People pursue these activities because they want to, not because they [...]

By guest blogger Judy Molland Save the Children staff, local officials, teachers, parents and children broke ground on July 15 for construction of the new Matau Primay School buildings in Zvipani, Zimbabwe. Construction will begin this month and is expected to be completed by September, 2012. The Matau Primary School project is funded through the [...]

Today we meet Marva Collins who is one of the most inspiring and respected educators in the USA.  I heard her amazing story at the Happiness and its Causes Conference some years ago where she received an enraptured standing ovation for the passion and dedication she showed in the right of every child to be [...]

When Kundayi Chiundiza, then in Year 11, tragically passed away last year, the terrible impact of this catastrophe was powerfully experienced throughout the whole St Andrew’s Cathedral School Community in Sydney. Kundayi’s mother Grace Chiundiza, had a vision to honour her son’s life and realise his dream of teaching children. That vision was to build [...]

She devoted herself to teaching Afghan Women how to live the ‘Australian Way’ and to bring them out of some of the more traditional approaches to living, a unique experience for many of them. Voted by a major Australian newspaper in January 2005 as one of fifty Australians ‘who matter’, Mahboba Rawi founded the aid [...]

This post is courtesy of the Queen Rania al Abdullah website. Education is a human right for every child. But, it is also a tool for climbing out of poverty, a defence against disease, a loudspeaker for the voiceless. For governments, and the international community, it is an investment that never devalues. In fact, no [...]