29 November 2007
Harbour BridgeClimb to be the pinnacle of a trip of a lifetime for young people from a remote orphanage in Timor Leste.
     
  27 November 2007
Youth Off The Streets volunteers to receive Australian Government's Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal.
     
  13 November 2007
Optometrists see through Street Youth Eyesight Issue.
     
  21 August 2007
The 2007 Celebration of Youth Ball, 15th September at the Westin Hotel, Sydney
     
  21 August 2007
The original This Is Your Life book complete with legendary Australian Golfer, Greg Norman’s autographed script to go under the hammer at a life changing event for Youth Off The Streets
     
  31 July 2007
The Hon. Linda Jean Burney MP, NSW Minister for Fair Trading, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteering to address Youth Off The Streets Open Day on the importance of community and its development
     
  25 June 2007
An Invitation to the Community: Bunita (Beautiful) Night - A fundraising event for Timor Leste
     
  23 March 2007
From Sydney to Surfers – the Million dollar ride for Youth off the Streets
     
  21 March 2007
$1.5 MILLION Grant for Youth Off The Streets Macquarie Fields Community Youth Centre from NSW Government
     
  16 Macrh 2007
Tom Whitaker, pro-surfer rides the waves with Youth Off The Streets at Bondi
     
  21 February 2007
Federal and State Ministers and the NSW Police Commissioner join Father Chris Riley and supporters to mark the beginning of a $4 Million Community Youth Centre project at Macquarie Fields
     
  12 February 2007
A portrait painted by many artists is to enter the prestigious 2007 Archibald Prize as a tribute of thanks to Father Chris Riley.
     
  12 January 2007
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.
     
 
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  MEDIA RELEASE January 12, 2007
   
 

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.

   
 
 

For more information, please contact Youth Off The Streets:
Ina Mullin
Ph: 02 8332 5005 / 0412 377 217
Email: inam@youthoffthestreets.com.au

   
 
   
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