Category: SCL Help Fund

It may not often make the mainstream news headlines, but Yemen is a country in tremendous crisis, with the number of people facing starvation expected to rise to nearly 12 million in the coming weeks. Yemen is a developing country and one of the world’s poorest. For decades, it has been affected by conflict between ...

ActionAid is a women’s rights organisation with far-reaching impact. The organisation was established in the UK in 1972, and its Australian arm has been operating for more than 40 years. ActionAid fights for women’s rights across a number of fronts, aiming to eradicate exploitation and injustice. It has branches in 45 countries across the globe. ...

Bangladesh is a remarkable country, but it is plagued by desperate poverty. Formerly East Pakistan, it became Bangladesh in 1971 after a war of independence. The country is located on the Indian subcontinent and has a population of more than 160 million – roughly 1,000 people per square kilometre – making it one of the ...

Since 2011, violence and air strikes have been a daily occurrence in Aleppo, Syria, terrorizing the local population. Buildings including schools and hospitals have been reduced to rubble, the air has become thick with dust and pollutants, and basic necessities such as food and water have slowly disappeared in this horrific civil war that’s killed ...

Cambodia is one of south-east Asia’s most impoverished countries. The nation still recovering from the effects of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, during which dictator Pol Pot ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people. Despite their economic situation, Cambodian people are warm and hospitable, as our principal discovered during his recent ...

With the Greyhound racing industry reeling from the NSW government’s decision to ban dog racing from July 2017, there is widespread concern about what’s to become of the tens of thousands of dogs that will no longer be needed, or wanted. Two charities that are doing great work to help destitute dogs are the Greyhound ...

Two years on from the day war ended in Palestine, life for Palestinians remains desperate. 75,000 are still homeless. There are not enough shelters, there are not enough building materials to make more shelters. Power operates only a few hours a day, making cooking, cleaning and washing difficult. Many families use candles, and last month ...

Love 146 “We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass. All of the girls wore red dresses with a number pinned to their front for identification. They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells …. Their light had ...

Carpets for Communities Cambodia is a cultural wonderland: with its incredible architecture, breathtaking natural beauty and rich history, the country has become a tourist hotspot in recent years. But beneath its natural beauty, Cambodia carries the scars of a brutal dictatorship and suffers from endemic poverty – with millions living below the poverty line and ...

Australians have very few rights compared to those in many other developed countries – but our furry friends have even less. While there are some laws in place to protect animals against cruelty and mistreatment, this legislation is far from perfect, and is seldom enforced. Many animals are subjected to abuse, abandonment or neglect – ...