Hugh's Impact
THE OAKTREE FOUNDATION
Projects
Over 5 years, Oaktree partnered with developing communities in 6 countries to provide over 40,000 young people with increased educational opportunities. Oaktree partner with community projects in Papua New Guinea, East Timor, the Philippines, Ghana, India and South Africa.
School Building (East Timor) Through Oaktree partner Stromme Foundation, we are building 6 schools, training two to three teachers for each school ,and providing scholarships across the Likisa district. This will allow 3090 children to have better access to a higher quality primary education.
Teacher Training (Papua New Guinea) Oaktree is supporting 10 young people through two years of teacher college in partnership with Baptist Union. On return we will support them as they return to their remote and rural community and reopen a primary school that has been closed for 15 years, enable approximately 200 children to go to school.
Heartbeat (South Africa) Heartbeat works with communities to increase their capacity to care for children orphaned by AIDS, providing education, medical-care, psycho-social support and lifeskills training. Oaktree funded the Emtonjeni Centre in Mpumulanga, supporting 145 children and young people to access Heartbeat’s programs.
Trokosi (Ghana) Oaktree supported vocational training and micro-credit programs for 300 young women released from Trokosi – a form of traditional slavery. Oaktree provided partner International Needs through with $25 0000 for the Adidome vocational training centre, and built awareness by filming a documentary.
Social centre for computing and programming (Philippines) Oaktree helped establish a computer training centre in Barangay Parang by providing $25 000 in start-up capital. Our partners International Needs and Kabayani Youth Movement manage the centre, with an onsite internet cafe providing sustainable funding.
Schools For Schools- Schools 4 Schools, which partners Australian schools with developing country schools. Australian schools receive a first-rate curriculum of facilitated educational modules about global issues and life-changing student exchange opportunities. Funds raised by Australian schools go towards their overseas partner school. Partner schools receive the GOLD peer education program, which recently received the Commonwealth award for the best peer education program in sub-Saharan Africa, and has lead to a proven decrease in the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst young people.
Volunteers
250 volunteer staff and 6 fully operational state offices in Victoria, New South Wales, ACT, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, United Kingdom. Each week over 200 young Australians volunteer between 1 and 40 hours of their time
Fundraising
$1,000,000 fundraised. The Oaktree hosted 500 of Australia’s most influential people including Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the Oaktree Future Fund launch, raising almost half a million dollars for an endowment fund to secure the sustainability our organisation.
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY CONCERT and MAKE POVERTY HISTORY ZERO SEVEN CAMPAIGN
Projects
MPH concert- The event was the largest ever youth-run concert in Australian history, featuring international mega- bands U2 and Pearl Jam, and Australia’s greatest artists including Paul Kelly, John Butler Trio, Jet, Eskimo Joe, Evermore, Hilltop Hoods, Sarah Blasko, Lior and more.
ZERO SEVEN The Road Trip marked the 07/07/07 midway point to the Millennium Development Goals, mobilising Australia to strive for our nation’s aid target of 0.7% GNI by 2015.
Advocacy
Over 15,000 people attended, and another 1.5 million read about the event in print media, 829,000 listened through live radio broadcast, and 300,000 bought the MPH Concert DVD afterwards.
The MPH campaign gained 50,000 new members.
ZERO SEVEN 6 concerts in six cities over six consecutive nights
The Zero Seven Road Trip made an impact right across Australia reaching over 11 million people through print media alone.
Following the final concert with Missy Higgins and John Butler Trio at the Sydney Opera House, a history-making projection onto the sails of the Opera House was seen by over 20 million people worldwide via global media coverage.
At Oaktree’s Sydney concert on July 6 2007, Kevin Rudd made a historic announcement to lift Australia’s ODA commitment to 0.5% GNI by 2015.
This represents an extra $4 billion for the world’s poor, and is the largest aid increase ever announced by an Australian political leader.
Volunteers
ZERO SEVEN For 7 days, 700 Oaktree Ambassadors road tripped through 17 cities and regional electorates across Australia and spoke to over 50,000 Australians directly.
Over 20 high-profile Aussie bands got behind the cause to perform free at our advocacy events.
