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Upcoming Events Thai-Burma border visits AKF members will be visiting the Thai-Burma border area over the next few weeks. For more information please contact AKF. Are you a musician looking for Australian airplay? AirIt is community radio's exclusive Australian music catalogue. AMRAP (the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project) is a commonwealth government funded radio initiative that distributes contemporary Australian music to Australian community radio stations. AMRAP is inviting musicians from diverse cultures to join AirIt. Any culturally diverse musicians residing in Australia is eligible for free national distribution via AirIt. This initiative supports all genres of music. If interested, contact Anthea Sidiropoulos at em@amrap.org.au or call 9486 9549. Also, download the following brochures: And check out the website for more info and to apply: http://www.amrap.org/emapply News "The Chosen Few" - Photographic Exhibition Suzanne Williams has been working as a photojournalist and photographer for many years - her latest exhibition "The Chosen Few" documents her journey with the Australian Karen Youth Project in 2004 to the Thai-Burma border. Afer spending time in a refugee camp that housed 16,000 displaced people, she is now able to showcase their lives and culture through this body of work.The images are quite raw and confronting in size and subject matter, so many stories are stripped bare in the gaze of the subjects eyes. Suzanne studied photography at the Victorian College of the Arts and was rewarded her Bacheolor of Fine Art in 1998. "The Chosen Few" was shown at the Bower Gallery in Ripponlea on the 6th of May, 2011, and featured a speaker from the Australian Karen Foundation, so those in attendance could gain more knowledge of their work and the plight of these beautiful people. The exhibition ran for two weeks in duration. Computers
AKF is working with Telstra and NAB to provide computers to students in refugee camps. Electronic equipment has a limited lifespan in areas like the Thai-Burma border. Through the generosity of donors, supporters and organisations that recondition computers for charitable organistions, AKF is planning to send or take computers to AKF Supported projects.  Computer room at ALCC At the same time learning programs in the Karen and Burmese languages are being made available by the State Library of Victoria. If you have space in your baggage and you would like to carry a computer to Thailand AKF would be pleased to hear from you! More
Solar Lights have reached refugees in refugee camps in the border area.
Lights are delivered to illuminate dark homes and to replace dangerous
and expensive candles. For more details of the types of lights, to buy
one for your own use, or to buy one for a refugee please contact AKF
(akfinfo@westnet.com.au)  AFK member looks on while girls study with solar lights at the Tham in camp and a yound reader finds solar better than dangerous candles. 
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