World Vision - Connecting Lives

World Vision's connecting lives is currently on at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney from 10 - 20 July.

The interactive walk through exhibition transports you into the real-life world of an African child struggling against incredible odds. It depicts three stories aimed at educating and moving you to respond to the challenges facing millions of children living in extreme poverty.

It is through the lives of three children - Selamawit from Ethiopia, Innocent from Uganda + Kombo from Kenya that you are able to understand what it is they face in their everyday lives.

Well worth a visit to see the amazing work World Vision do for children in the developing world. Inspirational!

Live Love Give

Live Love Give is a an organisation set up by two Sydney siders who were inspired after a trip to Uganda to help give children in Uganda a future.

Their aims are to provide provide education, support and protection for the children of both North and South Uganda.

Live = Development
Love = Awareness
Give = Education

This is Sharon Eleka

and this is Sharon Adongo..... 2 of the four girls who are being sponsored to go to Secondary School by Live Love Give.

The website is inspring and also beautiful, well worth a click.

The Cool Hunter

Our friend Flea recently came across this website, The Cool Hunter..... their tag line is that they "roam across Australia and the globe so that you're in the know", and they actually do. We want their job! They have topics from architecure, art and design to gadgets, ecoworld and street. This site is literally bursting with cool stuff!

We want to go to this hotel in Chile,

This one in Tokyo,

This one in Greece,

and this golf club in Switzerland..... (we can't even play golf)

This art exhibtion in Buenos Aires,

and we might even get to this cool new Aesop shop in Adelaide....... at least it's in the same country.

This website is seriously cool......

Amber is famous.....

Amber Lush one of the bricks + cartwheels founding members has recently been asked to participate as a judge in the Dove Fresh List.

Amber is an inspiring young person and Dove is "delighted to have some of the coolest people on board" to judge their fresh list. Click here to check out Ambers profile and make sure you keep checking back to read her blog. Which i just realised she has started! So the first Dove Fresh blog is up by Amber Lush, make sure you cehck it out!

Orange Launch 08

bricks + cartwheels headed to Orange NSW for some fundraising fun on June 14. The cold weather did not deter our 100 guests as they wined and dined and listened to the dulcet tones of Rosie-Jane Stone followed by Nashville starlet Susannah Stone + band who blew the roof off the Parkview Hotel!

The day was a HUGE success! We raised a massive $5000 - we are now well on the way to raising the funds for Stage 1! Fantastic effort! We were blown away by the generosity of all who attended. On behalf of the bricks + cartwheels team and the community of Katolo we would like to send you our most sincere thanks.

It was so lovely to see so many familiar faces and to share the work of bricks + cartwheels. To those who were unable to attend thank you for your generous donations, your contributions will go directly to the community of Katolo, Kenya and the direct delivery of the Secondary School for Girls.

There were prizes galore - thank you to all our sponsors and supporters! Thanks must also go to the Parkview Hotel for all their hard work in making the event the success it was!

"Good" design

Toes, United States

The Fastes Way, Mexico

Stop AIDS, Hungary

Make it Fly Away, Italy

Freedom, Thailand

Don't Cut Education, United States

Balance, United Kingdom

Good 08, started a campaing/competition for people in the communications industry to use their skills for good. The aim of the competition was to use the amazing skills of an industries which has the ability to grab the world's attention. 7 charities were invloved with 7 different issues, and the exhibition is travelling around the world.

The posters will be presented to the charities and will potentially be used in their future campaigns.

These are a few of our favourites but there are alot more to check out on their website here.

sun in a jar

It was recently a bricks + cartwheelers birthday....... cc! This is one of the great presents she received. A sun jar that collects sun during the day so that you can use it at night.

We were thinking it would be the perfect thing to take to Kenya, where electricity is not always available.

you can buy one here