“Live Below the Line” campaign, a joint initiative of
The Oaktree Foundation and the Global Poverty Project
Dearest
Members of the Rotary Club of Parkwood,
I am writing to you as a member of the “Live Below the Line” campaign, a joint initiative of The Oaktree Foundation and the Global Poverty Project. “Live Below the Line” aims empower young people around Australia,
and educate them about issues of global poverty. In addition it seeks to raise
funds to provide education opportunities for young people overseas as part of Oaktree’s partnership with Kampuchean Action for Primary
Education (KAPE).
The Oaktree Foundation is
Australia’s first youth-run aid and development organisation;
we are young people committed to ending global poverty. We have raised over $1,500,000 dollars for overseas aid and
development work and have a volunteer base of over 400 young people across
Australia under the age of 26 who regularly engage in our fundraising,
education and advocacy efforts.
This
year, we are launching a new fundraising initiative which challenges the
traditional parameters of fundraising campaigns: Live Below
The Line. Live Below The Line challenges
individuals, groups and communities across Australia to live on less than US
$1.25 a day for a week for all food expenses. This campaign is a
“sponsor-me” style initiative whereby participants will be sponsored to
undertake this challenge during the 2nd-8th August by their friends and family.
Equally, it is also an empathy raising campaign which seeks to build a
meaningful understanding of extreme poverty in the lives of Australians.
Oaktree will be partnering with Kampuchean Action for Primary
Education (KAPE). KAPE is an independent Cambodian NGO with over 10 years of
experience in basic education improvement and delivery in Cambodia. This
initiative marks a new approach to educational development in the basic
education sector in Cambodia. The Program has been designed to address quality
and governance issues by increasing the accountability of teaching aids whilst
ultimately equipping students with the necessary life skills to pursue further
vocational training and employment. KAPE will work with three Cambodian schools
for 4 years, beginning in January 2011 and ending September 2014. Oaktree is committed to funding the entire project for this
period. With your support, we could effectively achieve a significant overall
improvement in the standards of teaching and the quality of education in one of
the poorest regions on our earth.
As
we are a youth non-for-profit organization, we are enquiring about the
possibility of receiving sponsorship in the form of financial support from your
Rotarian Club. The benefits of sponsoring our campaign are significant. Not
only will the Rotary be assisting a great cause, but the target market (18 to
26 year olds) will acknowledge that your club is associated with an ethical
project and will view this kindly. Additionally, I have personal link to
your club, as the Rotary Club District of 9640 supported me in 2008 when I
attended the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra, to which I am eternally
grateful.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact Tori Flannery, Live Below
The Line Queensland Manager, at t.flannery@theoaktree.org or
on 0413 170 159. More information can be found at www.livebelowtheline.com
Thank
you for your time and we look forward to working in partnership with you!
Kindest Regards,
Tori Flannery
QLD Live Below The Line Manager
The Oaktree Foundation
M: 0413170159
E: t.flannery@theoaktree.org
Young people working together to end global poverty.