Smith Family’s Winter Appeal
I’M writing to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Tasmanians for their support of The Smith Family’s 2016 winter appeal.
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We launched the appeal in May to raise $3.65 million by June 30 to support the education of disadvantaged children across Australia. Our appeal highlighted the impact of severe financial disadvantage on the education of a child.
For the 638,000 children living in jobless families across Australia, every day at school can be a struggle. These children often miss out on excursions and camps, can feel isolated and alone, and are at risk of disengaging from learning.
Without educational support and extra resources, they may never reach their potential or find a pathway out of poverty. It is heartening that our call to “end poverty – one student at a time” through education resonated with so many people in the community, who responded with great generosity to our Appeal.
I would like to thank every individual who made a donation.
Lesley Mackay, general manager Tasmania, The Smith Family.
Terrorists
WITH the growing number of terrorist attacks around the world we may wonder just what extremists want.
The answer is well known to experts. What ISIS and Al Qaeda hate the most is moderate Muslims, especially those who have become Westernised, more so if they live in the West. Little wonder that 98 per cent of those killed by Islamic terrorists are Muslims.
Attacking Western targets is designed to provoke Western hate of moderate Muslims who have settled in the West. The more that Muslims are hated and discriminated against the fewer that will go to the West and the more who will turn to the terrorists.
Donald Trump, Pauline Hanson and other far right-wing politicians and individuals greatly assist the extremists cause.