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Feature article by Steve Pennells in The West Australian Magazine, on Save the Children's programs in the East Kimberley.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Not in the Kimberley, where the Sunburnt and the Lucky countries are meant to meet.
Halls Creek is the poster town for disadvantage and despair. Children are killing themselves in Wyndham and Kununurra. And now, in a car powering across the Kimberley, one of the most powerful figures in international aid has arrived because he believes that people here – like those in Africa, Latin America and the poorest parts of Asia – are in desperate need of help.
Read the full article [Adobe PDF, 1923 Kb] on Save the Children’s work in the East Kimberley, written by Steve Pennells in The West Australian Magazine on 22 March 2008.
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