The Sphere Effect

It seems I only ever write these days when I’m starting or ending a year! So here’s my wrap up for 2009. I somehow managed to achieve most of my goals for 2009 which is awesome.

I moved back to the Humanitarian Sector and got a job with Compassion Australia.
I finished my MBA!
I got a new scooter - VROOM
I travelled to Vietnam, Thailand, Manardo (Indonesia) and spent a bit of time flying back and forth across Australia.
I’ve made heaps of new friends in Newcastle and in Adelaide and things are ticking along very nicely.
I’d still like to make a move back overseas, but at the moment I’m quite content to stay in Perth and work for Compassion.

As I write, I am at Singapore Airport on my way to Kolkatta, India with an awesome group of people. We are going to check out some Compassion Projects in both Kolkatta and Purulia and we hope to see what God is doing through His church there. I’m planning on blogging if and when we come across anything interesting, so watch this space.

I’m also planning another Compassion trip to Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda in April 2010, so if anyone is interested in coming along, let me know and I’ll send you the details.

Life is good, God is good, I am happy

Well I didn’t have to wait for too long to get that new job!!

I have just been offered a full-time job with Compassion Australia. Compassion is very similar to World Vision, incorporating one on one child sponsorship between donors and children in developing countries. You can find out about them at http://www.compassion.com.au.

I will be working as the Donor Relations Manager for Western Australia, which will enable me to stay in Australia until I have at least finished my MBA, but also gets me into the area that I want to work in - international aid and development. The job includes a lot of travel, mostly around WA and the NT which is great, and will probably also include a couple of field trips every year into the Compassion projects overseas. So it’s a great job for me - including flexibility, travel, interesting work, and christian ethos.

I’ll be visiting some Compassion Projects near Chiang Rai as part of my holiday in Thailand later this week so that I can get some first hand experience of the work that Compassion do here in Thailand. All in all I think it promises to be an exciting year!!!