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January 21, 2016
Meet 'Amazing Asha', fearless future doctor
Asha is afraid of nothing, how many 10 year olds can say that? Her favourite subject is science because her teacher, Mr Samwel Jackson, “is so smart funny and nice,” she says. Asha likes learning about animals, especially lions, and how lions like to kill and eat zebras. Asha’s favourite person in the world is […]
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January 20, 2016
Help St Jude's by drinking tea
St Jude's students will receive a donation when people purchase NOUS Tea, a company started by St Jude's supporter Filip Yip.
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January 12, 2016
Rotary helps Tanzanian students with albinism see clearly
Overcoming vision impairment in a developing country is no easy task, especially when you’re trying to focus on your education, but two of our students have done just that.
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January 5, 2016
St Jude's welcomes our newest students
Their faces say it all… This is the day that will change their family forever.
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December 22, 2015
St Jude's spreads Christmas cheer to orphans
St Jude's staff and students visited 10 needy orphanages to give out gifts and supplies just in time for Christmas.
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December 13, 2015
Send your loved ones a St Jude's Christmas eCard
Give the gift of an education this Christmas!
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December 9, 2015
Meet Ezekiel, big dreamer
There’s one thing Ezekiel wants to do when he finishes university and gets the job of his dreams. “I’m going to buy my parents a house,” the smiley 15-year-old says. And, boy, do they deserve it. Ezekiel’s parents, Jenifer and Michael, are unskilled workers in one of the world's poorest countries, spending everything they have […]
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December 9, 2015
2015 in review: A year of firsts
2015 was one of our most successful years fighting poverty through education! Not only did our first ever Form 6 graduating class finish in the top 10% in Tanzania, these amazing graduates went on to help thousands of students at under-resourced government schools by volunteering as teachers. Our amazing supporters helped us with one of […]
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November 28, 2015
Revisiting the School of St Jude, the Tanzanian high school Australians helped bring to life
As a journalist, it is not often you get to see a tangible example of the effect your work can have. Sometimes you hope that a particular story will achieve something — expose an injustice or bring about much-needed change, but most of the time, the world goes on as it was. So getting an […]
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November 27, 2015
We call this heaven': Gemma Sisia's Tanzanian story
It's dress rehearsal for the inaugural graduation ceremony at the School of St Jude in Arusha, Tanzania, and the formidable Gemma Sisia is trying to convince me she has pulled back from supervising every detail at the school she founded 13 years ago. But with five days to go before the big event, it doesn't […]
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