Miss
World Australia, Young ambassadors from Youth
Off The Streets and The Hon Tony Stewart MP will
accompany Father Chris Riley to a remote East
Timor Orphanage.
On Monday January 15, Father
Chris Riley, CEO and Founder, Youth Off The Streets
will be returning to East Timor to continue his
Service Learning Programme as part of his organisations’
ongoing support of an orphanage in Baguia.
This year, Fr Riley will be accompanied
by 4 young people from Youth Off The Streets programmes
who will be donating their time to care for the
children of the orphanage to allow the nuns, who
run the orphanage with very limited resources,
some much needed respite. The group is comprised
of three young women who have been chosen as Trainee
Youth Workers for the Youth Off The Streets Macquarie
Fields Outreach Programme and Shayne Walsh, a
2006 Youth Off The Streets Scholarship recipient.
“The young people I am
taking with me have been chosen because they have
shown great leadership potential. By helping out
at the orphanage, they will learn to understand
the importance and value of being generous to
others. In the past, Service Learning has helped
young people develop greater self-esteem and positive
values. As future role models in their communities,
these are necessary qualities for these kids to
build on,” said Father Chris Riley.
Father Chris Riley’s Youth
Off The Streets also supports the Baguia orphanage
by organising funding and donations of food, clothing,
educational tools and sporting equipment.
Miss World Australia, Sabrina
Houssami and Miss World NSW, Caroline Pemberton,
will join the Youth Off The Streets Service Learning
Programme to fulfil part of the Miss World Beauty
With A Purpose role and bring profile to the good
work being performed in the region.
Father Chris Riley and Youth
Off The Streets are very grateful to The Honourable
Tony Stewart MP for his support of this project
and Bankstown District Sports Club for providing
the funding for the 2007 Service Learning trip.
Available for interview:
Father Riley CEO and Founder, Youth Off The Streets,
The Hon Tony Stewart MP, Sabrina Houssami, Miss
World Australia
Where: Sydney Airport Qantas
Domestic Departure Lounge Flight QF 846 to Brisbane
(to Dili via Darwin)
Date: 15th January 2007
Time: 6:00am
About Youth Off The Streets:
Youth Off The Streets is a community
organisation working for young people who are
chronically homeless, drug dependent and recovering
from abuse. We support these young people as they
work to turn their lives around and overcome immense
personal traumas such as neglect and physical,
psychological and emotional abuse.
Since opening in 1991, Youth
Off The Streets has grown from a single food van
delivering meals to young homeless people on the
streets of Kings Cross to a major youth specific
agency providing a wide range of services offering
a full continuum of care.
It is our goal that these young
people will leave our care drug free, with a high
school education, living skills and a full or
part time job in hand.
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