Virgin Australia Voyeur — May 2017

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Virgin Australia aims to make a diference, and is proud to

partner with a range of community groups. Here’s the latest.

COMMUNITY NEWS

OUR PLEDGE

Virgin Australia is a proud Australian airline. Our strategy is to strengthen our community partnerships to be a force for good in society. We play

a powerful role in bringing ideas and people together to make a diference. We’re focused on serving the community and the national interest in

innovative ways. We remain passionate about supporting the next generation of Australians. Through our longstanding partnerships with AIME

(Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) and Starlight Children’s Foundation, we are maintaining our focus on youth in hardship.

Lending a Hand

Virgin Australia cabin crew help Foodbank feed the hungry in Melbourne.

In some areas of Vanuatu, nearly 75 per cent of

girls are missing more than a month of learning per

year because they don’ t have access to sanitary

pads and still share school toilets with boys.

CARE Australia is launching a crowdfunding

campaign to provide reusable pads and hygiene

education, and to ensure there are school toilets

for girls. CARE has already provided more than

340 girls in Vanuatu with sanitary kits — another

$41,000 can help 560 more girls stay in school all

year. Virgin Australia has been a proud sponsor of

CARE Australia since 2015. To learn more, or to

donate, visit http://www.care.org.au/pads.

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roudly supported by Virgin Australia since 2010, Foodbank is the

largest hunger-relief organisation in Australia. First established in

1992 in NSW, this not-for-profit acts as a pantry for charities and

community groups feeding the hungry. Foodbank provided enough food

for more than 63 million meals in 2016, and now has distribution centres

operating in all state capitals, as well as a number of regional centres.

In Victoria alone, Foodbank sources and distributes food to more than

134,000 Victorians who rely on food assistance each month. Nationally, the

organisation employs 120 staf members and more than 3000 volunteers

— including Virgin Australia cabin crew in Melbourne who help to pack

orders that are distributed to more than 400 partner welfare agencies.

To learn more and help fight hunger in Australia, visit http://www.foodbank.org.au.

EXTRA CARE

This community group needs your help

to support young women in Vanuatu.

NATIONAL STARLIGHT DAY

Donate on Friday 5 May and help bring

smiles to the faces of Aussie kids.

This year on 5 May, Starlight Children’s

Foundation needs to raise $1.3 million to

support more than 30,000 sick kids in

hospitals across Australia. Virgin Australia

has been an oficial wish-granting partner

since 2011, providing flights for Starlight

families all over the country. Check out

http://www.starlight.org.au or call 1300 727 827

for more information or to donate.

Virgin Australia

cabin crew (from

let): Jules Staley,

Madison Nisbett and

Christine Ashton.