Kids from St Agnes' Primary School, in Port Macquarie have some fun with a sack race, combining sport and culture. Photo: St Agnes' Primary School
Harmony Day Awards 2012
The 2012 national Harmony Day Award winners have been announced. Schools from Hobart and Port Macquarie in northern New South Wales took out the top awards. A Hobart College project focused on sharing stories and building connections between young people from different cultures and backgrounds, who now call Australia home. St Agnes' Primary School in Port Macquarie focused on the importance of sport as a bridge between both cultures as well as younger and older people.
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Target: 1,000 Cranes Photo Competition
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who entered our Target: 1,000 Cranes Photo Competition. We have had hundreds of entries and received well over our target of one thousand paper cranes. The weekly and major prize winners can now be viewed in our competition winner's gallery.
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Harmony Day mural at Weetangera Primary School, ACT.
Harmony Day Awards 2011
In 2011, we again had a fantastic response to the Red Cross Harmony Day Awards! It was exciting for us to see the new and innovative ways teams have taken up a Y Challenge to celebrate cultural diversity and promote the message that everyone belongs. The high level of entries meant the panel of judges had a hard task choosing just three winners, and there were many honourable mentions.
Check out our award winners.
Youth Leadership Forum 2011.
Red Cross National Youth Leadership Forum
The inaugural Red Cross National Youth Leadership Forum took place at Humanity Place in Melbourne from 27-30 January, 2011. The aim of the national forum was to ensure our new youth leaders have all the information, understanding and knowledge required to be able to effectively move forward within the new youth engagement frameworks and to develop networks of support within in each state and territory and nationally.
Read the full report.
Photo: Rodney Dekker (Youth Forum).