Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific

Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific (AFAP) is an independent, secular, not-for-profit, fully accredited Australian non-government organisation (NGO) that was founded in 1968 and incorporated in the state of New South Wales in 1983. Their website states, "Our mission is to be a leading agent for poverty alleviation through innovative and appropriate community-based development."[1]

History

The idea for the organization was born in the 1960s when Stanley Hosie, an Australian Marist priest, began doing missionary work in the South Pacific, specifically Melanesia and Polynesia. His close friends, Australian actress Elizabeth “Betty” Bryant-Silverstein and her husband, a director, Maurice “Red” Silverstein, were inspired and decided to found the organization in 1968.

The strategy of the new non-governmental organization was developed in 1967 after a consulting visit with to Melanesia and Polynesia, where a nine-volume report of a than Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) had been elaborated.

The first office of FSP was officially inaugurated in 1968 in Sydney. The organization gradually became one of the leading NGOs in Australia.

The Foundation opened its office in the USA, which at present is known as Counterpart International.

Programs

AFAP: Action on Poverty manages the Australian-Pacific Centre for Emergency and Disaster Information (APCEDI) to make news on natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and to help with rapid disaster response assessment.[3]

References

  1. "Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific". Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  2. "Dengue Fever Management". Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  3. Asia Pacific Disaster Alerts

External links

This article is related to the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam.

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