Overseas Partnerships
Overseas Partnership is the umbrella term for all international programs and fundraising efforts carried out by the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia. The St Vincent de Paul Society operates in 153 countries and has nearly one million members. In Australia we run various programs to help neighbouring countries within our region. Click on the links below to find out more, or to sign up to receive a bi-monthly email update contact overseasadmin@svdp.org.au.
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Where we work
In 2018, Australian Vincentians supported the following countries via over 2,000 twinning relationships in the countries highlighted in south-east Asia, ....and thirty in the Pacific. In addition, Australian Conferences and Councils funded 49 projects in...
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Partnership news
A letter from the Society in Kiribati Here in Kiribati we have 9 conferences plus 3 youth conferences. One of our conferences is twinned. Most of our conferences are on the main island of Tarawa, with three, plus one of our youth conferences, on outer...
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Assist a Student
What is Assist a Student? The Assist a Student program gives you the opportunity to provide the funding to support the education of a student in one of our partner countries for one year. In many Asia Pacific countries, poverty means talented individuals...
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Partnership projects
What are partnership projects? Australian conferences may, from time to time receive a project application request from their twinned conference. These projects generally are under AUD 2,000 in value and are designed to build the capacity or provide...
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Encounter Program
Encounter Fiji New South Wales Vincentians visit to our Brothers and Sisters in Fiji for two weeks in October 2018. The purpose of the “Encounter Fijiā€¯ was: 1) To deepen the relationship between Australian and our Vincentians brothers and sisters in...
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Archived news
Burns Creek School - Solomon Islands The Solomon Islands consists of over 900 islands along two volcanic chains in the south-west Pacific Ocean. The Solomon Islands was granted independence in 1978, and has a population of over 600,000, who are...
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