Opus Dei

In April this year tropical cyclone Harold hit Vanuatu destroying a huge portion of the town of Luganville on the island of Espiritu Santo. This town has played host to multiple workcamps run by study centres based in Australia and New Zealand.

As expectations on parents to work more days and hours increases over the years, a group of families in Perth, Australia, responded with an ingenious initiative that maximises the quality of the time spent with their spouses, kids and friends.

​A group of university students from Warrane College in Sydney volunteered to help rebuild a community hall and Catholic chapel at Longolongo, Tonga.

For the past eleven years, Creston College in affiliation with Reledev Australia have organised service projects in Dubbo for groups of young people and the elderly in need.

On the 15th of October 2013 a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the southern islands of the Philippines causing the death of hundreds and the destruction of more than eighty-thousand structures. Ten students from universities in Sydney and Brisbane volunteered three weeks of their summer to alleviating structural and educational damage in the town of Clarin in the Philippine island of Bohol.

Four decades after the Communist suppression of the Catholic Church, Xavier Symons travelled with 14 high school boys to Vietnam on a service project. The boys all attend Nairana Study Centre, a centre of Opus Dei in Sydney.

A service project, organized by students from New Zealand and Australia, became a lot more challenging than originally planned.

Tamara Elizabeth shares her experiences during a service project in India during January 2010.