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CAROL ZINN SSJ DELIVERS THE 2015 JOHN WALLIS MEMORIAL LECTURES IN THREE STATES
Our World View, the Environment and Social Justice. It is not often that the John Wallis Foundation can obtain an international speaker. But in 2015 Sister Carol Zinn a Sister of St Joseph from USA agreed to give an exciting series of lectures in three Australian...
APRIL 2017 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
Our Newsletter, Highways & Byways, April 2017, has a new look and lots of stories of the Foundation's activities and projects. In this issue: Liz McAloon, Executive Officer, writes about current developments and the response to the 2017 Small Grants Programme...
THE SILENT BOOK IS GOING OVERSEAS
The Silent Book: A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian Irish Sign Language, Bernadette T. Wallis, Missionary Sister Of Service, is the engrossing story, both deeply personal and historical, of the disappearing Australian-Irish sign language told through the...
YARCK TO YEA RIDE-RUN-WALK SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017
Each year, as winter turns to spring, the John Wallis Foundation, in partnership with the Catholic Community of Yea and Assumption College Kilmore, holds a community and fundraising event in the beautiful Goulburn Valley. The 2017 event is scheduled for Saturday 14...
OUR MISSION
Journeying with people in hope, love and support... that they may have life and have it to the full. The mission of the John Wallis Foundation is to go into the highways and byways, seeking initiatives that develop the human and spiritual potential of people and...
COUNTRY WOMEN STICK TOGETHER – PORT AUGUSTA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The eighty-year-old Port Augusta Country Women’s Association was on the brink last year. The few women left, including two life members, and the new single mums who had joined, had no way of getting to meetings. The group faced closure. But the members did what the...
SMASHING THE SOUND OF SILENCE – TASMANIA
Imagine being deaf, or hearing impaired, and spending your school days in a hearing community, where no other children understand what it is like to not be able to hear properly. Then a group of committed teachers decide to get all the deaf and hearing-impaired kids...
MAKERS TAKE A STAND AT THE MARKET – DALLAS VIC
There’s some new makers on the block at the Dallas Community Hub and their wares will soon be for sale. Beaded jewellery, made by women who attend the hub’s weekly coffee/craft club, will be on sale at an upcoming Dallas Brooks Community Primary School market at the...
VOLUNTEERS CREATE PATHWAYS – BROADMEADOWS, VIC
Women came to the Meadows Primary School Community hub last year to make stars as part of a global movement against family violence. Hub coordinator Maureen Leahy set up the ribbons and materials for the one-hour session. It lasted all day. The women, all part of the...
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