The Oaktree Foundation
The Oaktree Foundation is an entirely youth-run international aid and development organisation.
Our mission is to empower developing communities through education in a way that is sustainable. Oaktree has a vision of equal educational opportunity for all young people across the world, as we believe that education is a key to breaking the poverty cycle. Oaktree believes that educated, empowered and motivated communities are better able to change their future.
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Swap Til You Drop Oaktree Foundation
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Hi everyone,
Our names are Amritha, Anna, Felicity & Monique, and under The Oaktree Foundation, we are organising a Clothes Swap this month to raise funds in support of the Timor-Leste Youth Livelihoods Program. We are aspiring to raise over $1000, and are writing to seek your help iand support of this incredible cause.
The Oaktree Foundation is an amazing and entirely youth-run organisation which is working to empower developing communities through education. It believes that education is the key to breaking the poverty cycle and creating lasting change in the lives of the disadvantaged.
The focus of Oaktree’s work this year is on East Timor. Unemployment for East Timorese youth is staggeringly high, running at approximately 43% nationally. This is where the ‘Youth Livelihoods Program’ comes in. This program equips Timorese youth with the vocational, business and life skills training they need to create their own businesses and generate income to support themselves and their families. These youth are the future of East Timor. In their success lies the reconstruction of an East Timor battered by political unrest and conflict.
We are especially writing to ask for your help because we believe that your donation will help us raise money to alleviate the poverty of East Timorese youth, and the swap meet will provide everyone with the opportunity to exchange their pre-loved clothes, books, accessories and so forth with others in the spirit of greater sustainability. The success of numerous markets stands as testament to the idea that one person’s ‘trash’, can truly be another’s ‘treasure’. A Clothes Swap fundraiser offers great potential to build upon this success in a manner which also raises crucial funds for the ‘Youth Livelihoods Program’.
The event will be held on the 28th of June. Please have a look at our website: http://swaptilyoudrop.blogspot.com/
The official website for The Oaktree Foundation is: www.theoaktree.org, should you be interested in learning more about our organisation.
Thank you so much in advance for consideration of your support.
Sincerely,
Amritha, Anna, Felicity & Monique
Co-Coordinators of ‘Swap Til You Drop 2009: Supporting Timor-Leste’s Youth Livelihood Program’.
Email: swaptilyoudrop09@gmail.com
Website: http://swaptilyoudrop.blogspot.com/
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My Donations
| Name | Donation | Message | | Qi Jiang | $40.00 | This is a wonderful thing you are doing. I have donated the equivalent of an hour's work since it is what I seem to be doing rather than charitable work. | | Luke | $20.00 | Hey all the best Felicity...kbye! | | Danny | $100.00 | Good luck! I dare you to do 5 cartwheels in a row (and not lose your lunch)
Good luck and good on you!
Danny | | Cat | $20.00 | Go cuz go! More importantly, find out where you're starting and get home in time for the birthday ;) x |
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