Breaking Poverty Podcast

As we get our nation back on its feet, we need all young people to have the skills in their education to fully participate in our society as we rebuild.

In Breaking Poverty I was privileged to meet young people who see higher education as a means of transforming the lives and their communities. 

In our family, we didn't really have any people who went past say Year 10 education. It was always doing very manual labour work, and there's nothing wrong with that. But it was just that that seems like the only thing we could do.

The children, they go skipping off to school, they’ve got a good lunch, backpack. They’ve got the shoes, the socks, the proper uniform.

I opened the email and I was home alone, yeah, it said, "Congratulations, you've got a place." And I just dropped to my knees. I was crying.

It was really hard for me to move away. But how I look at it in the long-term is that if I do this studying now, I can do the job I want and make the money I want, just to help my family out a lot.