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Tyeena Pang Year 12 at St Margaret’s Anglican Girls’ School Sponsored by The Musgrave Family Foundation
It has been a long journey from Year 7 to where I am now. I am proud of how far I have come, both in my schooling and as a person. Although I have found Maths quite hard it has been the most character-building subject for me. It has taught me to be patient, trust in my abilities and ask for help. Being a Yalari recipient has not only taught me to see the full potential of my abilities but Yalari has allowed me to meet some incredible people along the way. These people have included my Yalari and St Margaret’s family who have helped me shape the person I am today. I am grateful to all of those who have given me their time and resources to help me thrive. Thank you so much for all your support and believing in me for the past six years and for giving me this amazing opportunity for the brightest world ahead.
provides on how Tyeena’s study is going. We regularly talk about the work Yalari does and I speak about Yalari as a success story when discussing good things that are happening in Australia and the difference that can be made in an individual’s life. What type of legacy would you like to leave? For myself, I am not so Tyeena with Waver ley being awarded a concerned, but through the Yalari Captaincy for St Margaret’s studen ts foundation which should last several generations and was set up by my father who studied “How to create a living legacy” as his doctoral thesis. I am pleased that we can remind ourselves of the values of our mother and try to do some good in the world. Any final words? Make sure you follow Yalari on Instagram! It’s a great way of seeing the good work being done, hearing what past students are up to now in their life and is a welcome distraction from today’s doom and gloom that makes up a lot of online media.
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Yalari donor and volunteer, Annie Chapple explains how her desire to give to Yalari was born. was such a self-centred teenage girl. Preoccupied with finding my place in social groups, figuring out what my young adult tastes were in fashion and music, working hard studying — I rarely stopped to realise how lucky I was to be getting a great education.
From Year 8 to Year 12, I was a weekly boarder at The Glennie School in Toowoomba. I had comfortable accommodation, good sporting and music facilities, exposure to French Immersion and so many other opportunities that I took all in my stride. Until the day a senior teacher sat the boarders down to tell us about some new students who’d be joining us. They were a group of girls hand-picked from remote corners of the country to come to our cold and blustery little town for schooling. The teacher asked us to be mindful of how different this private boarding school experience would be for them and to understand they would also be under immense pressure from their families and friends to succeed. This was the first group of female Yalari students that founders Waverley Stanley and Llew Mullins had chosen for full boarding school scholarships. Glennie was the pilot school and test case for the future of what we now know to be an incredible organisation. For my adolescent self, it was also the moment I took notice of my privilege and when I stopped taking for granted the opportunities I had at my fingertips. My grandparents Cliff and Leslyn Ashdown had worked hard in their youth to be able to give back and always emphasised to my siblings and me the importance of a good education. They believed in it so much they had donated money to support kids through schooling at both Glennie and Churchie in Brisbane. It is why I believe Yalari to be one of the single most impactful charities currently operating in Australia. I loved my boarding school experience, I relished the opportunities given to me at a private all girls school and it makes me so happy to know that through small or large donations, more and more indigenous kids get to have these experiences too. I give to Yalari because I know the funds go directly towards the education of kids who deserve to be given the chance to leap to their future.
To learn more about how you can contribute to Yalari’s endowment fund, please visit www.yalari.org/MBEF.
Yalari News - September 2020
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