G’Day World #70 – Mark Knower, Open Family Australia (13 Jan 2006)
Posted on 13. Jan, 2006 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
ark Knower is the National Development Coordinator of Open Family Australia, an organisation started in 1978 by Father Bob Maguire. Their mission:
To improve the well-being and self-worth of alienated and excluded street children through unconditional support, whenever and wherever necessary, with the view to reconnecting them with the community.
Mark and I talk about the size of the homelessness problem with Aussie kids (the 2001 census suggests about 26,000 kids don’t have a regular place to sleep) and what each of us can do about it to help.
Yeah I know – it ain’t about technology. Listen anyway. You guys should all be thinking about how you give something back. Even if you don’t live in Australia, I hope you’ll find some inspiration in what Mark has to say.
