News Edition 2, 2010

Technology has made a huge impact on how we give and why. To keep up with all things technological, here’s our pick of the A-Z techsavvy ways to give (and get others to give too).

According to Neville Barrett, General Manager of the Eastern Territory Salvos Stores, last year a record $6 million was spent nationally on disposing of other people’s rubbish. That’s 20 million kilograms - the equivalent of 4,000 truckloads – taken to the tip at The Salvation Army’s expense.

Skateboarding in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan seems a little incongruous with the images we have of the war-torn country. But for Australian skateboarders Oliver Percovich and Sharna Nolan it was the beginning of one of the greatest gifts they could give the children of Afghanistan.