The Social Justice Centre opened at midday on Friday 15th February 2008. Located on Murdoch University's Bush Court next to the Guild Shop, the centre provides a dedicated area for students to learn more about the ways that they can help to make a difference to the community.
The Centre is being sponsored by SWB and OXFAM and coordinated by the SWB Office Administrator.
You will have the ongoing opportunity to drop in to the Social Justice Centre and learn about internships, programs, actions and other organisations and their programs that you can get involved with and contribute towards making a difference. You can become a social justice, human rights, peace, cultural, environmental, conservation, sustainability activist and contributor.
Learn about the work of established organisations such as:
 Oxfam
AustraliaOxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation.Their aim is to increase the number of people who have a sustainable livelihood, access to social services, an effective voice in decisions, safety from conflict and disaster, and equal rights and status. Volunteering with Oxfam Take Action! |
 Edmund
Rice Institute for Social JusticeThe Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice, Fremantle works to build community commitment and capacity to act and reflect in the service of social justice. They offer volunteer and internship placements and tailor your work around your interests and skills. Training is provided. |
 Friends
of the EarthFriends of the Earth (FoE) Australia is a federation of independent local groups working for a socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future. They are campaigning for local and global environmental justice, positive solutions, anti nuclear, indigenous land and rights, climate justice, trade justice, global action! |
 GreenpeaceGreenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity. Get involved with Greenpeace Take Action! |
 Australian Orangutan
ProjectOrangutans are the world's second largest ape and have the intelligence level of a five year old child - but they are critically endangered. AOP works with conservation organisations to protect the orangutan in the wild by providing funds for conservation, protection and education programs. Take Action! |
 One World CentreThe One World Centre aims to provide transformative education to all sectors of society that encourages and supports an active and engaged citizenship. They do this by promoting a just and sustainable world and enabling people to recognise the roles they can play both locally and globally. Internships |
 Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International Australia works with people in Australia and the region to demand respect for human rights and protect people facing abuse. They promote a culture where human rights are embraced, valued and protected. Their vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They are concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights. Volunteering Opportunities Take Action! |
 Art of LivingThe Art of Living Perth, is a Chapter of the Art of Living International Foundation, which is a not-for-profit, humanitarian organisation with two priorities - the individual and the community or society in relation to the individuals, and seeks to empower both. |
 Australian Red CrossThrough war, drought, flood and fire the Australian Red Cross volunteers are there to help. They have over 30,000 trained volunteers delivering more than 60 local programs and services around Australia. The Australian Red Cross is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which is the largest humanitarian organisation in the world. Worldwide there are more than 97 million volunteers! The Red Cross is independent of the government and has no political, religious or cultural affiliation. |
| NEPCAM NEPCAM is an initiative of a group of people in Australia who help poor children in Cambodia and Nepal. Every cent given goes directly to the needy recipients without any deduction for administration. By sponsoring a child for just $24 per month you can help to provide an education for children who otherwise would miss out. An education provides them with the skills they need to get out of poverty. |
 RSPCAThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is Western Australia’s leading animal welfare authority, and is responsible for enforcing WA's Animal Welfare Act. |
 Save
the ChildrenSave the Children Australia aims to ensure that all children, regardless of gender, race, country of origin or religious belief have the means for survival, receive protection and have access to nutrition, primary health care and basic education. Save the Children fights for children's rights. They deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide. Volunteering with Save the Children Take Action! |
 VIDA
VIDA (Volunteering for International Development from Australia) places skilled Australian volunteers in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. VIDA volunteers work with local counterparts to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development in the communities in which they work through skills and knowledge exchange, institutional strengthening and capacity building. |
 The
SamaritansThe Samaritans has been providing 24 hour telephone access to suicidal and despairing people in Western Australia for 40 years. Their aim is to see a society in which fewer people die by suicide, people are able to explore their feelings and people are able to acknowledge and respect the feelings of others. They offer non-judgmental, emotional support to the lonely, despairing and suicidal, or those at risk of becoming so. |
 Fred Hollows FoundationThe Fred Hollows Foundation is inspired by the late Professor Fred Hollows - an eye doctor, skilled surgeon of international renown and social justice activist. The vision of The Fred Hollows Foundation is for a world where no one is needlessly blind, and Indigenous Australians enjoy the same health and life expectancy as other Australians. Since 1992 The Fred Hollows Foundation has worked in collaboration with local blindness prevention and other health organisations in more than 38 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific. |
 The
Oaktree FoundationThe Oaktree Foundation is an entirely youth run aid and development organisation. They are driven by young people under the age of 26 and believe that education is the key to making lasting change. Their mission is to empower developing communities through education in a way that is sustainable. |
 The Wilderness SocietyThe Wilderness Society is a national, community-based, environmental advocacy organisation whose purpose is protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth. |
 United
Nations Association of AustraliaUNAA offers you the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of issues that confront the United Nations and Australia: from human rights to peacekeeping, from greenhouse gases to clean water. Not only is Australia an active member of the United Nations, but this country's Federal, State and Territory laws are, in many cases, art of Australia's international obligations. UNAA gives you a chance to be heard. |
| Platform
Kids Platform Kids was formed by a group of Western Australians who were not prepared to let the suffering of children go unanswered. Platform Kids upholds the rights of children everywhere to the basic needs of love, shelter, nourishment, health, education, safety and freedom from exploitation. They rescue children from a life of begging at railway stations and provide them with care and an education. |
 Global
Warming Forest GroupThe Global Warming Forest Group (GWFG) exists for the primary objective of seeing an immediate end to all logging, thinning and clearing in Western Australia's native forest. As more and more people are realising the seriousness of climate change on the planet, governments are going to have to stop turning a blind eye to the destruction industry is doing to the natural environment. |
 Youth
Challenge AustraliaYouth Challenge Australia (YAC) is a non-profit, non-religious organisation that actively engages Australian volunteers in grass roots development work. In Central Australia, Vanuatu, India, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana and Mexico, volunteers work in collaboration with local communities and partner organisations to assist the growth of sustainable and positive development. |
For more info about any of these groups, or how to register your group, please contact studentswithoutborders@rocketmail.com |