By Donna Ward | Tenterfield Star
24 February 2010
WHEN Guyra girl Gemma Rice, now Sisia, first launched her fundraising efforts to build a school for the poorest children of Tanzania back in 2002, Tenterfield grazier Paul Leahy was amongst the ...
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By Lea Keel Holland | The Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine
September 2009 (Autumn 2009 Issue)
WHILE Alexandra Schaerrer was growing up in Zurich, Switzerland, she lived less than two hours away from the horrors of the ethno-nationalist conflict in Yugoslavia. "We had one or two refugee ...
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By Alyssa Kimlin | The Chronicle
8 June 2009
THE sparkling beauty of Toowoomba shrouded in fog greeted Gemma Sisia when she drove up the Toowoomba Range on Thursday night. The founder of the School of St Jude in northern Tanzania ...
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By Alyssa Kimlin | The Chronicle
3 June 2009
GEMMA Sisia knows knowledge is power and she is determined to give the students at the School of St Jude in Tanzania all the knowledge she can.
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By Megan Zingarelli | CNN
20 April 2009
The world has seen banks and businesses fail spectacularly since the recession began, but other vulnerable organizations in the developing world face devastation. The recession is hitting the flow ...
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By Denice Barnes | Central Coast Express Advocate
18 November 2008
FIVE Central Coast women visited Africa recently armed with hundreds of royal blue socks and computer equipment. The women, all Central Coast Zonta members, answered an SOS from School of ...
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By Alicia Wood | St George & Sutherland Shire The Leader
8 October 2008
THREE sisters and their sister-in-law stepped on to Waratah Oval, Sutherland on Monday to the strains of Queen's We are the Champions. Wendy Phillpott, Joanne Charlton, Kerrie Swampillai and Simone ...
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Lauren Green | The Manning River Times
30 September 2008
THE Manning will be visited tomorrow by seven people walking from Surfers Paradise to Sutherland to raise money for the School of St Jude in Tanzania.
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Manning Great Lakes Extra
25 September 2008
SEVEN people walking from Surfers Paradise to Sutherland to raise money for the School of St Jude in Tanzania will pass through Manning on October 1 and 2. The School of St Jude was started in 2002 ...
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Maureen Magee | The San Diego Union-Tribune
20 September 2008
Living in poverty-stricken Tanzania, where most homes have dirt floors and lack electricity and plumbing, Emmanuel George is about as far away from the La Jolla lifestyle as it gets. ...
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Mary Katherine Keown | The Sudbury Star
23 August 2008
There is a lot of giggling at the School of St. Jude. It is lunch time and the students are inhaling plates full of rice and beans at seemingly super-human speed, in order to maximize play time ...
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Alison Hunter | The Arusha Times
18 July 2008
The ribbon has been cut and the School of St Jude’s Usa River campus is officially open! With the new school hall full and Mount Kilimanjaro in the background, the Tanzanian Minister for Education ...
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The Arusha Times
11 July 2008
St Jude may be the patron of hopeless causes but he certainly knows how to support a school! The excitement is mounting at the School of St Jude as it gets ready to officially open it’s second campus ...
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Linda Morris | Sydney Morning Herald
5 May 2007
Every person comes across signposts in life that send them in new directions, either bringing opportunities, new meaning and joy or leading down dark paths of heartache, loneliness ...
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Roslyn Guy | The Age
4 September 2006
IT’S a Monday night in Camberwell, a time when most people are content to stay home and watch television, but St Dominic’s parish hall is overflowing. Instead of the 30 or so supporters ...
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Australian Story
15 August 2005
This is the transcript of the Australian Story episode about Gemma Sisia's story and The School of St Jude which first aired on Australian television channel ABC on Monday 15 August 2005.
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