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Living Our Values in Community
By Soraya Kassim, Executive Director of Palms This month we are launching one of our most ambitious projects – Simplicity...
What a Principal Remembers
Tebwebwe Claude has been principal of Sacred Heart College in Bikenibeu, Tarawa, since 2017. When he began teaching there in...
Fourteen Years On (Anne Chapman, Timor-Leste)
In 2012 Anne Chapman (centre) finished her Palms placement in Atabae, Timor-Leste, working alongside local staff. This May she went...
Simplicity September Begins NOW!
Your invitation to simple living This September, for one month, we are inviting you to take up a simple living...
Highlights of the 2026 Timor-Leste Encounter
This month the Executive Director led a small group on a two week educational tour of Timor-Leste, travelling from its...
Returnee Stories: 65 Years of Palms
Where it began: Clair Redfern, Papua New Guinea, 1962 Clair Agnes Redfern, then Clair Toohey, was one of the very...
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Prioritising Local Initiatives
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Prioritising Local Initiatives
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Reach Beyond Every Barrier
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Facilitating Mutual Development
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Sustainable Solutions to Poverty
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Empowering Communities
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Building Strong Relationships
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Facilitating Mutual Development
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Sustainable Solutions to Poverty
What we do
Since 1961 we have prepared qualified and experienced Australians for assignments abroad in 40 countries (as of June 2026).
$280.4m
worth of expertise
129.3k
days of primary health services
78.6k
students educated
6087
locals trained in administration, finance, community development, trades & agriculture
Witness It All on a Life-Changing Journey
Two Week Encounter Tours to Samoa, Timor-Leste, and Thailand
1563
Participants
416
Communities
40
Countries
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The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.
Muhammad Yunus