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 2019, Australian Vincentians supported the following countries through over 1,800 twinning relationships in the countries highlighted in south-east Asia ....and thirty in the Pacific. In addition, Australian Conferences and Councils funded 42 projects...
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Partnership news
COVID 19 updates from our partner countries Lao PDR went into lockdown on April 1, and the Vincentians from the one conference that Australia is twinned with sprang into action. Vincentians provided support April and May to 108 families in 24 villages....
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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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Archived 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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