The Babes Project – Moments

Transcript: The Babes Project - Moments

I remember that second line just showing up and I can just remember my heart rate increasing. I was always worried about what people thought about me. Always I was worried about people thinking that I couldn’t do it. I was worried about people saying she can’t, she’s never gonna be, she’s too young to be a mom.

I had this view of what I guess what everyone else thinks that motherhood should should be like or what it has to be like and I definitely didn’t fit in to what a lot of people think you have to be just everything was running through my mind like will I even be able to finish school, what am I gonna do next year, what will our families say because you know we are quite young, what were my friends gonna say, am I still gonna have friends after this. I didn’t want to be a mum yeah.

I never saw really children in my life they were just as completely foreign thing to me. So my mum comes from a very traditional mindset I think she’d always envisioned something better for me you know whatever that better meant. And because things were done the way that she perhaps would have wanted them to go, I felt really isolated.

Being at the babes project just learning more about other people’s stories and how not the only one. I feel a lot more confident in myself. So coming into the Davis project I was able to share the experience as I was going through and now I feel like I’m a mum. I feel like I was given the ability to come into my role. I found it really empowering.

I was between packing a bit and I just actually had a really crappy day. It was really quite an average day and I helped him to get her there and she put her hand on my cheek she goes mummy I’m so proud of you and I don’t know where she got it from. I don’t know how she knew how to say that yet or anything like I just started crying and was like me too, I’m proud of me too.

Transcript: Kids Hope

Anyone working with children knows the challenges they face these days. Many children, over 1 million Australian children, live in disadvantaged homes. We’ve seen children who show behavioural and emotional issues, who experience disadvantage, hardship, or conflict in their homes. And on top of this, children have to manage peer pressure, often hidden from sight through technology.

How can we equip and prepare our children to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically? How can you bring hope to the next generation? Well, there is good news. Since 2004, Kids Hope mentors have worked with thousands of Australian primary school children. They have done one-to-one mentor-ship, and because of that mentor-ship, they literally have seen kids’ lives transformed into resilience, hope, and confidence.

Kids Hope is Australia’s largest early intervention school-based mentoring program. It’s no surprise that teachers around the country have told us how one mentor working with one child for one hour a week has such a significant and positive impact on children. They have seen children’s emotional needs met and their learning capacity enhanced. Independent research from Griffith and Monash Universities confirmed that Kids Hope brings hope, confidence, resilience, and security.

Principals in tears have told me how it has made such a difference. This program works. Your gift of $25 a month will bring hope to a child through mentoring. In $250 a month, we’ll bring that to a whole school where the Kids Hope mentoring program is. The investment is small, the impact immeasurable.

Kids Hope

Kids Hope train and guide mentors from a local church, connecting them with a local primary school.

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ZOE International 2019 #REWIND

Thank you for being a part of reaching and rescuing more!

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Transcript: ZOE International 2019 #REWIND

Expansion might be a process of innovation. Breakfast is delicious, I think it would be transformational. I would use the word growth to describe 2019. It has been a year where we’ve really grown in every country. Over 10,000 hours have been dedicated to raising up the next generation of leaders.

Zoe’s Australian Curriculum was updated and put into the hands of a hundred school teachers. We were invited to be a part of the Japan networked dance trafficking in persons. Thousands were reached with human trafficking awareness campaigns all around the world. The Prime Minister of Thailand recognised Zoe’s work in preventing and combating human trafficking. We were given the opportunity to speak about the problem of human trafficking with leading officials at the Senate in Mexico City.

We placed third in the category of the ape-man relay team. It took us five days, five hours and 52 minutes to race 3,000 miles. We raised over $175,000. I don’t honestly know, I’m laughing, it’s really a miracle what’s taking place. LA County has contracted with Zoe and we provide 24-hour crisis response for children who’ve been trafficked.

So, what that means is within 90 minutes our team will be on scene when we get a call from law enforcement that a child has been pressed. If I had to use one word to describe Zoe and 2019, it would be exponential in so many areas. Zoe seems to be bursting at the seams in levels of sophistication and levels of growth in reaching areas that we’ve not reached before or going to places we’ve not gone before.

We delivered 15,000 boxes of food to families in need. We inspired hundreds to join the fight against human trafficking in Mexico City. We have reached thousands of people with the gospel in Thailand and around the world. Zoe began building its first home for youth in Los Angeles.

Human Trafficking Survivor Story - Nuan's Story | Life to the Full

I grew up in a very poor family and we lived in the jungle. Growing up, I remember that we really had a good family and we really loved each other. But then something happened when my Mom passed away. My brother went to work in the city, and my sister was sold into prostitution. Then my dad left me at a store. I became one of the maids, like cleaning the house and cleaning the store.

And then a lady came to the shop and she was a woman who sells kids to be a prostitute. Which I did not know back then. So a lady came to the shop and the shopkeeper said “Do you want this girl? Because I don’t want anything to do with her.”

She was about to take me out of the store, and then amazingly– I believe that it was because of God’s plan and His goodness for my life– another lady came in. Then they were fighting over who should have me. At the end the shopkeeper said “Let the girl pick on her own.” I don’t know why… But I chose the second lady.

When I first came to ZOE… Honestly, I would say I didn’t like it.

The thing that changed me from not liking ZOE is that the people at ZOE– the thing that I have seen is that they are so loving, they’re so kind, and they embraced me.

So that kinda changed my life.

Cause I really needed someone to love me at that age.

Human Trafficking Survivor Story – Nuan’s Story | Life to the Full

ZOE fights for the day “child” and prostitution” are not associated.

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Payton Sounds of Vienna 2018

Payton Foundation Sounds of Vienna Concert 2018 at The Athenaeum Club Collins Street Melbourne.

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Transcript: Payton Sounds of Vienna 2018

Let us now have the first part of the Seavey’s performance. Well, thank you for coming out and celebrating with us. It’s great to take time to allow your heart to be challenged as when we inspire tonight. You know when you listen to really good quality music, it can transport you. It can touch your heart.

I wrestled with this myself a few years ago. I still got to the realisation that I can’t help everybody and we everybody if I try and help a million people and get a file that I can help a person.

So then when I felt that first you know of another person and hopefully another if all of us help one person that’s a lot of people being helped. Our goal is about transforming communities by being bringers of hope and that’s really what the invitation is to you tonight.

In partnering with the Payton foundation is to join with other people who are working amongst vulnerable others to help them to be able to have some fruits.

Transcript: Payton Barefoot Bowls

I have to say, it’s been a little more competitive than I was expecting. I came along this afternoon to a barefoot Bowls fund-raiser where charities were represented.

Wonderful people and superb charities to support, it’s a good chance to catch up for a casual game of bowls and also just really support a very worthy charity.

We’re so lucky to be involved with these guys.

I love it.