We are thrilled to announce that IACD Regional Director for South Asia and past Vice President of IACD, Anita Paul, will be speaking at ChangeFest 19 in Sydney, Australia from 20 – 22 November.
ChangeFest will bring together more than 500 changemakers from across Australia to share, inspire, determine and progress a future where communities are empowered, where poverty and disadvantage are
eliminated from the ground up. This event celebrates the work and success that is already being experienced in more than 30 communities across Australia hosted in Mount Druitt, in the heart of Western Sydney, an inspiring community in the process of change.
The theme of the conference is, “Walk with Us: Making Change Together,” and the full programme for ChangeFest 19 can be found here. Anita will be speaking on the topic of community development and sustainability.
Registration ends soon, so register today!
Read more about ChangeFest here, and read on for more information about the conference vision:
An inspirational festival of Australia-wide change-making efforts was initiated by the ChangeFestfounding partners – Collaboration for Impact, Logan Together, Opportunity Child, and Griffith University – at the inaugural ChangeFestevent held in Logan (Queensland) in November 2018. More than 600 participants committed to building a national movement so that individual communities can become directly involved in identifying, planning, funding, implementing and evaluating the services they need. Communities decide what works and what is best for them. They also have a choice to opt-in.
At the heart of this collaboration is a commitment to remind Governments that First Peoples, who have layered a culture-of-place in hundreds of communities over thousands of years and been confronted with different ways of doing by the recent creation of Australia as a nation, need to reimagine the relationship they have with the country’s oldest citizens.
An outcome of the 2018 ChangeFestevent is the ChangeFestStatement– a declaration that unites and directs the efforts of all communities that believe in the outcome we’re describing. TheChangeFestMovement is focused on communities, their children and intergenerational change, to benefit all Australians.
via https://changefest.com.au/vision/
