Tim Costello
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A hand up, not a hand out
I arrived home on Sunday from a week in Ethiopia. It was a pleasure to travel with Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborah Lee Furness, who are both World Vision Ambassadors. Though it's summer in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa was quite cold and thankfully, raining....
Tue, July 28, 2009, 2:14 pm EST -
An overwhelming atmosphere of evil
While attending World Vision meetings in Geneva, I took the opportunity to use my weekend off to visit Auschwitz. On the plane to Geneva, I watched the film The Reader in which Kate Winslet plays an extraordinary role of a former Auschwitz guard whose...
Mon, July 13, 2009, 9:31 pm EST -
Our home, Earth.
Attending the last day of the United Nations conference on a new climate treaty to replace the 15 year old Kyoto Protocol, I was struck by by the picture of human history and its development being shrunk into a single room at the Hotel Maritim in...
Mon, June 22, 2009, 5:32 pm EST -
Making chocolate free from child labour
Wherever I have travelled while working for World Vision, it always brings me a lot of pleasure to see kids playing. Soccer is often the game of choice - scavenged plastic bags are bound together to create a crude ball that is still handled with amazing...
Mon, June 15, 2009, 4:36 pm EST -
Don't trade lives
I was in Sydney last week for a conference on children's rights. It was right after the horrific report out of Ireland about abused children and the role of the church. The conference discussion centred on the theme that even in the last five to ten...
Wed, June 3, 2009, 5:22 pm EST -
Young determination
Last week I sat around a table with Connie Hedegaard. Connie is the Danish minister for climate, and will host the United Nation's major climate change conference in Copenhagen in December.I was impressed by her determination to see a global deal...
Thu, May 28, 2009, 12:14 pm EST -
Leaving a legacy
I ran into a farming family in Tasmania this week. Antony and Prue and their children had been donors - child sponsors - for some time, but in that good Australian tradition always wondered what was happening ‘out there' in the field. Just what...
Mon, May 18, 2009, 11:38 am EST -
Will our children cheer?
I had the privilege this week to travel around Australia with the head of our Indian office, Dr Jayakumar Christian. What was engaging about Jayakumar is that he has been working in development in India for more than 30 years, and he is not despondent...
Tue, May 12, 2009, 2:30 pm EST -
We can survive...
It's been a terribly difficult start to the year, from the tragic losses caused by bushfires, heatwaves and floods, to the cascading impact of the financial crisis. In the first few months of this year as I have spoken around the country, the hardship...
Tue, May 12, 2009, 1:49 pm EST -
We will survive
It's been a terribly difficult start to the year, from the tragic losses caused by bushfires, heatwaves and floods, to the cascading impact of the financial crisis. In the first few months of this year as I have spoken around the country, the hardship...
Tue, May 12, 2009, 1:06 pm EST
