Live Below the Line Clothes Swap
Live Below the Line is an incredible new campaign that’s changing the way hundreds of thousands of Australians understand global poverty, and raising huge amounts of money to fight it. Live Below the Line challenges Australians to live on $2 a day for 5 days – the Australian equivalent of the International Extreme Poverty Line.
This year Live Below the Line is set to be nothing less than massive. From May 16th – 20th tens of thousands are expected to take the challenge as an incredible way to gain some insight into the realities of extreme poverty, whilst using it as a platform to raise money to create change. This year the money raised will fund educational programs in Papua New Guinea.
Live Below the Line is run in collaboration by the Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s largest entirely youth run aid and development agency, and the Global Poverty Project, an organisation which aims to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to end extreme poverty.
Already, a significant number of Tasmanian schools have signed up, as well as politicians and other noteworthy people, on both a state and national level, including Australian of the Year Simon McKeon and World and Olympic Swimming Champion Libby Trickett.

Participants can sign up at http://www.livebelowtheline.com.au
On the 9th of April we are holding a clothes swap at Youth Arc in Hobart to fundraise and advocate for the Live Below the Line campaign.
The details of the event are as follows:
Organisation: Live Below the Line
Event Title: Live Below the Line Clothes Swap
Address: Youth Arc – 44 Collins Street, Hobart
Information: Entry is by gold coin donation and bring some clothes to swap. Refreshments will be available for purchase and there will be a DJ. Money raised will go towards funding educational programs in Papua New Guinea.
Dates/Times: 9th of April/anytime between 10am and 2pm

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For more information contact:

Lizzie Park
Tasmanian Live Below the Line Promotions Coordinator 2011
The Oaktree Foundation
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