An Ordinary Girl
Nunderi, New South Wales, Australia
Woohoo!!!! We have met target of raising $4000 for Asylum Seeker Resource Centre!!!! Any additional donations will continue to raise funds for ASRC. We will continue to post books out to our donors. Please let your friends and family know so they can donate.
Thanks to John and Deborah our most recent donors. Thank you for walking with me.
How many of us have felt unhappy with the inhumane way that the Australian government have treated asylum seekers and felt compelled or inspired to help?
When I look back on my life, I need to know that I did my best to uphold my integrity. I believe I can’t do so unless I do my small part to speak up about our government’s cruel treatment of asylum seekers. I hope you will join me by buying this book to share with your family, friends and colleagues. We need to start these conversations and give children access to this topic so that they can grow up with a broader understanding of the world.
The two things Australian asylum seekers need above all are practical support and legal representation. My two daughters now 6 and nearly 10 have worked together with me to create a children’s book of my refugee childhood to raise funds for asylum seekers.
As a seven year old child, I was a boat person refugee of the Vietnam war. And this is why my heart aches for the suffering of the children in detention. I wish I could sit with them, give them a cuddle like I do with my own children and tell them a story of hope and strength; a story of how I coped as a refugee child.
During a period of illness, it dawned on me that I could write a book of my life to these children. If I can’t visit in person I can visit via the pages of this book. Others have successfully sent books, this is already established.
I want to tell them that they must stay strong with hope. They can stay strong by learning something to improve their opportunity for a better future. This is what I did while in detention as a seven to ten year old. I learnt English and I worked very hard at it.
I hope you will feel inspired to support this cause. Ordinary families will be able to hear a story of hope and the importance of reminding our children of core values – compassion, harmony and humility. Children reading this book will think upon what it means to have nothing, not even the food that we have in our fridge. They can enjoy the underlying theme that ordinary people have gifts which can help them stay strong in difficult phases of life by finding purpose despite turmoil.
The making of this book allows me to share my childhood journey with my daughters. It will show them that stories are worth telling and that every ordinary person is someone special with their own gift to contribute to those around them.
Haylen and Nya have enjoyed illustrating the book with me. You can see Haylen has drawn the boat on the front cover and Nya has drawn the moon. They have drawn and painted many more parts of the book themselves. Haylen drew and painted the last illustration herself while I outlined it for her in ink.
My story is written as you will see in the video. It has taken over two years to comlete. Some days it was fun. Other days required discipline and vision. Please give us your encouragement by supporting this project.
When you support this campaign, please know that every cent from the proceeds, other than printing and postage cost, will go to supporting refugees.
When you donate to this cause, you may find that this is something that you have always known that you have wanted to do. This is how I feel.
Ordinary Australians need to stand together and say “I do not support asylum seeker cruelty.”
And of course, Haylen and Nya would be so excited to know you are interested in their art in An Ordinary Girl.
Please feel free to drop us a line at [email protected] or at https://www.facebook.com/An-Ordinary-Girl-the-Book-254904001643136/ on my Face Book page.
If you are donating, you will not get a book. Choose a perk if you would like a book.
$30 Perk ($20 if no postage required)
$55 Perk
$80 Perk
$150 Perk
Figures are yet to be finalised, but it is anticipated that least $15 of every book sale will go directly to Australian Asylum Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne. More will be raised where postage is saved. A spreadsheet of the actual budget will be emailed to our for transparency.
Sincere gratitude to
Est. Delivery Date: Posted within the week.
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Nunderi, New South Wales, Australia
Woohoo!!!! We have met target of raising $4000 for Asylum Seeker Resource Centre!!!! Any additional donations will continue to raise funds for ASRC. We will continue to post books out to our donors. Please let your friends and family know so they can donate.
Thanks to John and Deborah our most recent donors. Thank you for walking with me.
How many of us have felt unhappy with the inhumane way that the Australian government have treated asylum seekers and felt compelled or inspired to help?
When I look back on my life, I need to know that I did my best to uphold my integrity. I believe I can’t do so unless I do my small part to speak up about our government’s cruel treatment of asylum seekers. I hope you will join me by buying this book to share with your family, friends and colleagues. We need to start these conversations and give children access to this topic so that they can grow up with a broader understanding of the world.
The two things Australian asylum seekers need above all are practical support and legal representation. My two daughters now 6 and nearly 10 have worked together with me to create a children’s book of my refugee childhood to raise funds for asylum seekers.
As a seven year old child, I was a boat person refugee of the Vietnam war. And this is why my heart aches for the suffering of the children in detention. I wish I could sit with them, give them a cuddle like I do with my own children and tell them a story of hope and strength; a story of how I coped as a refugee child.
During a period of illness, it dawned on me that I could write a book of my life to these children. If I can’t visit in person I can visit via the pages of this book. Others have successfully sent books, this is already established.
I want to tell them that they must stay strong with hope. They can stay strong by learning something to improve their opportunity for a better future. This is what I did while in detention as a seven to ten year old. I learnt English and I worked very hard at it.
I hope you will feel inspired to support this cause. Ordinary families will be able to hear a story of hope and the importance of reminding our children of core values – compassion, harmony and humility. Children reading this book will think upon what it means to have nothing, not even the food that we have in our fridge. They can enjoy the underlying theme that ordinary people have gifts which can help them stay strong in difficult phases of life by finding purpose despite turmoil.
The making of this book allows me to share my childhood journey with my daughters. It will show them that stories are worth telling and that every ordinary person is someone special with their own gift to contribute to those around them.
Haylen and Nya have enjoyed illustrating the book with me. You can see Haylen has drawn the boat on the front cover and Nya has drawn the moon. They have drawn and painted many more parts of the book themselves. Haylen drew and painted the last illustration herself while I outlined it for her in ink.
My story is written as you will see in the video. It has taken over two years to comlete. Some days it was fun. Other days required discipline and vision. Please give us your encouragement by supporting this project.
When you support this campaign, please know that every cent from the proceeds, other than printing and postage cost, will go to supporting refugees.
When you donate to this cause, you may find that this is something that you have always known that you have wanted to do. This is how I feel.
Ordinary Australians need to stand together and say “I do not support asylum seeker cruelty.”
And of course, Haylen and Nya would be so excited to know you are interested in their art in An Ordinary Girl.
Please feel free to drop us a line at [email protected] or at https://www.facebook.com/An-Ordinary-Girl-the-Book-254904001643136/ on my Face Book page.
If you are donating, you will not get a book. Choose a perk if you would like a book.
$30 Perk ($20 if no postage required)
$55 Perk
$80 Perk
$150 Perk
Figures are yet to be finalised, but it is anticipated that least $15 of every book sale will go directly to Australian Asylum Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne. More will be raised where postage is saved. A spreadsheet of the actual budget will be emailed to our for transparency.
Sincere gratitude to
Est. Delivery Date: Posted within the week.
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