{"id":17344,"date":"2008-07-09T05:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/oneday-is-all-it-takes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:20:41","slug":"oneday-is-all-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/oneday-is-all-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"oneday is all it takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"title\">\n<div id=\"titledesc\">\n<p>C197\/08<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>9 July 2008<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Educating youth on HIV\/AIDS in developing countries was the focus for more  than fifty high school students who participated in the oneday Leadership  Conference at Curtin University of Technology recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Oaktree Foundation in partnership with Curtin Business School will run a  number of educational modules to raise awareness of the devastating effects of  the HIV\/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The oneday Leadership Conference will also provide training modules to help  the students organise their own fundraising events at their high schools.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Anna Ducie, a Curtin student and an Oaktree team leader said the money  from these fundraising events will be donated to the Generation of Leaders  Discovered (GOLD) program in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GOLD program involves selecting natural student leaders to become peer  educators through an intensive training course,\u201d Ms Ducie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are equipped to be role models to promote healthy behaviour and create  change within their community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the GOLD program, we are  equipping a generation of influential young people to lead their peers in the  fight against HIV\/AIDS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program involves students from more than twenty high schools across the  state. The hours they work to organise the fundraising events count towards  their community service.<\/p>\n<p>In April this year, Curtin Business School joined forces with the Oaktree  Foundation to help cultivate a culturally sensitive international perspective on  global issues. The initiative enhances the student experience by providing  students with volunteering opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Oaktree Foundation is Australia\u2019s first entirely youth run aid and  development organisation. They are driven by young people under the age of 26  who believe that education is the key to making lasting change.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last four years, Oaktree raised more than $1 million for development  projects and improved the livelihoods for more than 40,000 young people in the  developing world by providing educational opportunities in South Africa, Ghana,  East Timor, Papua New Guinea, India and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><span>Modified: 10 July 2008 and 17 November 2015<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educating youth on HIV\/AIDS in developing countries was the focus for more than fifty high school students who participated in the oneday Leadership Conference at Curtin University of Technology recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17344","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17344"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}