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CategoryA collection of our favourite Awesome Foundation funded projects from around the world. Awesome Newcastle is a chapter of The Awesome Foundation. The Awesome Foundation was created in 2009 and has provided over $1.5m in grants via 114 chapters in 26 countries.
Stellar Displacement
Albert Kong, resident local of San Francisco, is bringing the great outdoors into the big smoke with Stellar Displacement.
Stellar Displacement is a traveling immersive environment in a box truck that transports participants into a forest clearing on a summer night giving them the opportunity to stare up at the sta..
‘Roughly Speaking’
Conal McGuire is giving a voice to Liverpool’s homeless, showcasing their interpretations and interactions with the city through art.
McGuire’s ‘Roughly Speaking’ project, the Nightscape series, highlights some of the most vibrant accounts given by local homeless rough sleepers, specifically showcasing their unique ..
Class Matter Inc.
If you’ve been following Awesome Newcastle on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, you may have seen ‘The Business of Doing Good’, a Philadelphia based school program teaching primary school children entrepreneurial skills.
Keeping in with the theme of awesome kiddies on track to changing the world, lets talk about Aweso..
Dive Without Barriers
Alesia Koh is using her passion for diving to help Singaporean people living with disabilities through therapeutic and leisure diving experiences.
The underwater program, Dive Without Barriers, is aimed towards people living with aliments such as amputations and spinal injuries. The aim is to alleviate struggles of..
MOVE-IES in the PARK
Michael Butler and LeAnne Weekes noticed a growing dearth of affordable and fun opportunities for families and young people living and working around downtown Miami.
The pair believed the greatest equalizer for all people, is great music and a wonderful movie.
So, they devised a plan and after pitching to the boar..
Bread Brother
In some areas in Rotterdam a remarkable amount of bread wastes can be found at random places on the street, parks and even on top of waste baskets.
Bread waste attract rats and other vermin.
Some people do not just throw their spare bread into the garbage due to religious reasons, for some bread may simply not be..
The Super Pollinators – Aussie Native Bees
Environmental educator Abbie Mitchell spreads the buzz about Aussie Bees to primary school students.
Mitchell is launching her ‘Super Pollinators’ workshops which teach students about the importance of pollination, the role of the introduced honeybee, as well as learning about the threats to the honeybee worldwide…
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NOTAFLOF Collective
NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds) are a collective of queer and trans* hair stylists, bodyworkers, artists, activists and community members offering donation services and events to their North Oakland community.
Co-founders, Dara and Liam, began offering Pay-What-You-Can haircuts and bodywork to the q..
Ubuntu Performance Camp
Ubuntu Performance Camp is an idea created by Lee Mokobe, it was sparked from Mokobe’s work with teens in shelters, foster homes, group homes and those generally homeless.
Teens involved in the group will be taught poetry and leadership skills every Tuesday and Thursday at the Achieving Independence Center in Philad..