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🌏Day 3: Hatalia is happening🌏 . Post egg rolls, we hit the road and headed to Hatalia, our home for the next 5 days. Beaconhills has a long standing relationship with the community and helped to build the school we are staying in. We were welcomed with open arms and excitement by the School and students. . We spent the rest of the day touring the school and meeting and engaging with the students. In the evening, we had an amazing ‘singalong’ with the Beaconhills crew leading by example and ending up with over 100 locals joining in! This lasted around 2 hours before we prepped the students on the next days plans. Tomorrow we will be visiting two schools in the community to build and donate SolarBuddy lights and to teach them all about the benefits of solar! We are so excited! . #illuminatingfutures #givethegiftoflight #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #timor #education @beaconhillscollege
🌎Day 2: On the road in Timor🌎 . Wow, what a day! 6 hours of driving on some ‘interesting’ roads with four stops at four amazing places. First up was Agora Food Studio where we learnt all about traditional Temor Leste food. We also experienced an awesome breakfast which tasted a lot better than it looks! (See photo) We then hit the road and headed away from Dili and into some remote villages in Timor. Nearly every child waved at us along the way, smiles beaming from ear to ear. Waving back never got old! We visited The Balibo Fort and learnt all about the ‘Balibo Five’, before playing soccer in the street with some absolute cuties. . . A few more hours in the 4x4 and we arrived at our destination for the night: Maliana. Once again we were greeted with cheers and waves from the locals, showing just how welcoming and kind the people are here! Tomorrow we head to Hatolia where our school project phase begins. I’m so excited to get building our SolarBuddys with the @beaconhillscollege crew! x Billie Murphy . . #wisdomwednesday #illuminatingfutures #givethegiftoflight #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #billieintimor #education #school #solar #solarlight #solarbuddy
🌎Day one- Destination: Timor! 🌎 . “Two flights awaited before my arrival in East Timor. First up, Brisbane to Darwin where I met up with the Beaconhills group. 3 teachers and 10 Students all super excited to get to Dilli and begin their Timor adventure. A short flight from Darwin and we arrived in East Timor. I was blown away by the humidity! Jeans were not my best decision of the day 🤔. Visas got sorted and we loaded up the cars and drove to our hotel in Dilli for the night. To the kids’ (and secretly my) despair, the water was out at the hotel so no showers for us! Instead, we went to a local Vietnamese restaurant and practically rolled home after the amount of spring rolls we ate! We’ve got an early wake up tomorrow as we head to Maliana via a few villages on the way. I’ve been amazed by the sheer happiness on every persons face I have seen, despite the evident poverty they’re living in. I’m super excited to meet some more locals tomorrow and really learn more about their beautiful country!” - Billie Murphy ✨ . #transformationaltuesday #illuminatingfutures #givethegiftoflight #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #billieintimor #timor #education #day1
🌏Billie’s Timor Adventure!🌎 . Hi Guys! Many of you who has taken part in our program or been in touch with us would have come in touch with our very own Super-Teacher Billie! But did you know that she today landed in Timor to build and distribute lights together with students from @beaconhillscollege? Pretty cool hey! Well, it gets even better 😃 Billie has promised to share her adventure with us in a little mini series, with the first one coming today! So eyes peeled everyone 👀😍 . . . #renewableenergy #timor #energypoverty #globalcitizen #adventure #billieintimor #education #illuminatingfutures #givethegiftoflight
We love this happy photo from the distribution of the 1000 lights donated by the amazing Cognita Schools Group! 🙏🏻✨. . So much happiness, so much love and so much potential! Big thank you to all the Schools in Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, UK & Singapore whom all got involved in the #lightuplearning project! . #motivationalmonday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #education #solar #solarlight #charity #schools #cognitaschoolsgroup
✨FEEL GOOD FRIDAY!✨ . Wishing you all a fantastic weekend with one of our littlest fans out there! We have an exciting week next week when our very own Education Manager Billie is traveling to Timor with 10 students from @beaconhillscollege to build and deliver lights to students living in energy poverty over there. We can’t wait to see some pictures! 😍💡 . #feelgoodfriday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #solar #solarlight #charity #education #timor
We are so grateful for @ktf_ngo and for all our amazing supporters on the ground in PNG. They put in some fantastic effort to get our lights to remote schools by all sorts of transport! Thanks for helping us illuminate futures! 🙏🏻❤️💡 . . . #thankfulthursday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #solar #solarlight #education #png #ngo #charity
Another fantastic day in New Zealand visiting Waipipi School and Sandspit Road School! We absolutely love bringing our program into New Zealand & if you’re based over there and want to bring the program to your school, let us know! 😃💡 #wisdomwednesday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #education #solar #solarlight #newzealand #auckland
😍 Cuteness overload! 🐇 . We absolutely LOVE receiving back our student feedback and we love that our program gets shared with all kinds of living beings out there! ☺️💡 Unfortunately, the rabbit had no reaction but keep sharing and we might get him excited too! 🐇💡 . #globalcitizen #energypoverty #renewableenergy #transformationaltuesday #students #love #education #solar #solarlights #feedback
🌏NEW ZEALAND🌏 . What a fantastic day we had today with the program at Drury School in Auckland, New Zealand! & we are visiting yet another 2 Schools over here on Wednesday so eyes peeled 👀💡 . . #motivationalmonday #globalcitizen #energypoverty #renewableenergy #education #newzealand #auckland #schools #solar #solarlight @purenewzealand @visitauckland
We’re thrilled to see these beautiful children in Gambia with their new SolarBuddy lights. We’ve partnered with @schoolinabag and together we’re helping give students the necessities to study and thrive at school and at home. A huge thank you to our corporate partners WiseTech Global for your generous donation! #partners #charity #giving #schoolinabag #gambia #teamwork #energypoverty
🚨 NEW LIGHT DESIGN ALERT 🚨 . The SolarBuddy Light has been upgraded with a new and exciting design which is more technical to build and includes more learning for our students! . This is an exciting time to take part in our program for the first time and a fantastic opportunity to do the program again! . #wisdomwednesday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #solar #solarlight #education #schools #design #staytuned
Hope you didn’t miss SolarBuddy in the new School News magazine! Perfect little read for your morning coffee ☕️ 💡 #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizen #transformationtuesday #school #news #schoolnews #schoolnewsau #education
✨✨“To educate a child is to turn walls into doors”✨✨ . #renewableenergy #energypoverty #motivationalmonday #globalcitizen #solar #solarlights #lightupalife #png #illuminatingfutures
Yesterday we joined forces with our corporate partners cievents and attended The Australian Boarding School Association Victorian Prinicpal's luncheon at Vue de Monde. It was amazing to share our education program with principals from 12 top boarding schools and hopefully the start to a partnership with them all! #renewableenergy #energypoverty #education @cievents #education #schools #partnership
✨KTF REPOST✨ . What an amazing morning we had with the children and teachers of 8 elementary and primary schools from the Kupiano region! 1,200 solar lights were distributed taking our total number of lights given to the Kupiano region to 2,600! The children, teachers and KTF are so grateful to our partners at SolarBuddy.org and their generous donors from WWF Australia and Earth Hour Australia The gift of clean and sustainable light is an extraordinary thing and we had some amazingly happy faces today! Tenkyu Tru SolarBuddy, WWF and all your amazing supporters. ☀️ . . #solar #solarlight #giftoflight #lightuppng #solarbuddy #kupiano #centralprovince #ktf #png #happy #smile #sunshine
💡✨GTAV MELBOURNE✨💡 . Last day in Melbourne at the GTAV conference and we have had so many great conversations with teachers and how they can be a part of our program! Looking forward to working with you all and if you haven’t yet, come say hi! 😃🙋🏼‍♀️ #motivationalmonday #renewableenergy #energypoverty #globalcitizenship #globalcitizen #education #solar #solarlight #charity #melbourne #schools