2009 Annual Report 25 Years of Linking Australian Workers with the World Executive Ofﬁcer’S Report

Union Aid Abroad APHEDA The overseas humanitarian aid agency of the ACTU

2009 Annual Report 25 years of linking Australian workers with the world Executive Ofﬁcer’s Report

Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA was established in 1984 by the ACTU under the name APHEDA (Australian People for Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA Health, Education and Development Abroad) as the Australian union movement’s celebrates 25 years overseas aid arm. We assist projects in South East Asia, the of international solidarity. Pacific, the Middle East and southern Africa, working through local partner organisations and unions to deliver training in vocational skills, health and workers’ rights so women and men may commitment to assisting for workers, especially for have decent work that provides other workers in greater women workers, for a living wage, reasonable need. Their generous disabled youth and for conditions and a safe support is a tribute to their trafficked women. workplace. Our international program seeks to empower belief in justice and a fair go women and men in developing for all. Thanks to donors and countries so they and their partners families might live with their Decent Work essential None of this training is human rights respected, both to overcome poverty possible, of course, without in their workplace and in their society. The ILO, the global union two very special groups of As Union Aid Abroad – movement and the ACTU people – our donors and OUR MISSION APHEDA celebrates 25 all advocate Decent Work our partners. Without the As the ACTU’s humanitarian aid agency, Union Aid Abroad years of international as essential to overcoming generous and growing – APHEDA expresses the solidarity on behalf of the poverty. Work that provides support of our donors, the Australian union movement’s Australian trade union dignity to the worker and a trade unions and many commitment to social justice movement, it is worth living wage for their family is individual union members, and international solidarity recalling our humble essential if the more than no training would be through support to overseas education, training and beginnings, when a young 800 million workers who possible. Also, without the development projects, working Australian nurse trainer, Dr earn less than $2 a day and commitment, dedication in partnership with those Helen McCue, persuaded labour in sweatshop and competence of our whose rights to development the President of the ACTU, conditions are to ever have project partners overseas are restricted or denied. Cliff Dolan, to establish a a decent life. Independent, who actually deliver the OUR VISION trade union based aid democratic and strong training, no training could Unions and communities agency. Helen was training unions are crucial in take place. We continue to working internationally to nurses for the Palestinian ensuring that these workers be inspired by our donors eradicate poverty and achieve human rights. refugee camps in Lebanon. have a living wage, and and partners, who believe She was impressed by the therefore are able to feed, that a better world is ACFID CODE work of the Norwegian clothe and educate their possible, and are prepared OF CONDUCT Union Aid Abroad – union movement’s overseas children themselves, to work and make sacrifices APHEDA is an aid arm there, and thought without relying on to ensure it happens. accredited signatory it appropriate that Australian sponsorship from abroad. to the ACFID Code of Conduct. unions had a similar aid I would also like to thank The Code requires members to organisation. Cliff Dolan A skilled workforce the staff, both in Australia meet high standards of concurred, and APHEDA essential for decent and overseas, the many governance, public accountability and financial was born. work volunteers for their great management. For more But Decent Work also work, and the Committee of information, contact Union Aid Unions stand for requires a skilled workforce. Management for their Abroad – APHEDA or visit international solidarity Our projects assist strong support during the www.acfid.asn.au For 25 years, our many vocational and livelihood past year. We look forward CONTACT DETAILS projects in South East Asia, skills by training workers in to the next 25 years with Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA the Pacific, southern Africa literacy, sewing and confidence. Level 3, 377-383 Sussex Street and the Middle East have tailoring, agricultural Sydney NSW 2000 Ph: +61 2 9264 9343 been a living sign of the production, and sustainable Peter Jennings, Fax: +61 2 9261 1118 Australian trade union agriculture, carpentry, Executive Officer. Email: offi[email protected] movement’s belief in mechanical skills, media, Web: www.apheda.org.au international solidarity, and trade union training, HIV ABN 76 425 451 089 their continuing education, OH&S training FRONT COVER Laos: Trainees at the opening of a vocational training course run by the Vientiane Women’s Union in rural Laos. UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA ANNUAL REPORT 2009 PAGE 2 Chairperson’s Report

For the past 25 years, Union Aid Abroad – WHAT IS UNION AID APHEDA has put a practical face on the trade ABROAD – APHEDA? Union Aid Abroad – union movement’s belief in justice and a decent APHEDA was established by the ACTU in recognition standard of living for all. of the union movement’s responsibility to contribute directly to countries and over 5,700 people have difference. With a human regions in the world where been trained in literacy, rights based approach to men and women workers sewing and tailoring and development, APHEDA has are disadvantaged through handicraft production for also campaigned for exploitation, poverty, women, and carpentry, democracy, rights and discrimination and civil mechanics and agriculture justice in many countries, conflict. for men, with media and and continues to do so librarian training also today in Burma, Zimbabwe Union Aid Abroad – provided. Most importantly, and Palestine. APHEDA aims to build self- we have helped establish reliance through support to and strengthen the trade Australian unions have education and training union movement in Timor much to be proud of with projects for workers and Australian unions can be Leste, ensuring that men their international solidarity their trade unions. Union justifiably proud of Union and women will have a fair arm over the past 25 years, Aid Abroad – APHEDA also Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s wage and a safe and Union Aid Abroad – assists with relief programs work in their name and on workplace. APHEDA’s work continues and emergency appeals in their behalf. to be crucially important. It cases of specific In Vietnam, health, is a living sign of the international emergencies. Over the past quarter vocational training and the Australian union century in South Africa, strengthening of workers’ movement’s solidarity with Through over 50 projects Union Aid Abroad – rights at a workplace level workers in need, and our and project partners, Union APHEDA was the lead have been a feature of our Australian unions’ strong Aid Abroad – APHEDA Australian aid agency in work, as well as assisting belief in justice and human assists many different fighting apartheid, assisting trafficked women and rights for all workers – here communities, including the ANC with capacity livelihood skills for young and abroad. workers struggling for their building, assisting those in disabled victims of Agent rights, vocational skills for exile to return during the Orange. I would like to thank the disadvantaged women and transition to democracy, many unions which support men to assist them to earn bringing Nelson Mandela to Throughout 25 years, on the work of Union Aid an income and improve Australia in October 1990, behalf of Australian unions, Abroad – APHEDA. Your their opportunities and and in recent years, Union Aid Abroad – support has grown over the options in life, assistance to assisting the fight against APHEDA has worked in years, and we are confident refugees and stateless HIV/AIDS, especially many other countries such it will continue to grow in people, those suffering from through the trade union as PNG, the Solomon the future. HIV/AIDS and education for movement. Islands and New Caledonia indigenous peoples and for in the Pacific, the I would also like to thank child labourers. In Cambodia, we have Philippines, Laos, Indonesia and congratulate our focused on and the Thai-Burma border donors and supporters for Support for these training technical/vocational in South East Asia, and your amazing generosity, projects comes from education, agriculture, with Palestinians living in our staff both in Australia Australian trade unions, forestry and fishery, refugee camps in Lebanon and overseas, and many individual union women’s health, HIV and or under military occupation especially the volunteers members and others who nutrition, and union in the Occupied Palestinian working overseas and in make regular donations, strengthening for women in Territories. our Sydney office. My international trade unions the informal economy, and thanks also to all my fellow and their aid arms as well have trained over 80,000 But it is not just projects to Committee of Management as from AusAID, the people, mainly women, train workers or strengthen members. Australian government’s aid since 1985. unions that has enabled agency. Union Aid Abroad – Sandra Moait, In Timor Leste, since 1998, APHEDA to make a Chairperson.

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA PAGE 3 25YEARS! ANNUAL REPORT 2009 A health trainer in Cambodia leading nutrition information sessions for rural workers. Health and Development There is an undeniable link between health and development.

As countries develop While we in industrialised However, there are many access to personal economically and nations worry about health other indicators which are protection safety governments spend more issues such as obesity, not so obvious but which equipment in the on public health, water and pollution, addictions and have a signiﬁcant impact workplace and the use of sanitation, health indicators road trauma, the 80% of on health in developing dangerous (and often and standards of health the world’s population who countries: the extent of banned) pesticides, generally improve. live in developing countries smoking in that society, herbicides and insecticides Moreover, if governments are concerned with levels the use of asbestos in in agricultural plantations. spend more on health, the of nutrition and building and construction, economy improves immunisation as well as access to condoms where Gender and health because healthy children having access to clean HIV is prevalent, access to There is also a gender learn faster and a healthy water, sanitation, health insecticide-treated dimension to health, in that workforce is more workers, contraception, mosquito nets where women’s health is productive. etc. malaria is prevalent, sometimes low on the

Country Public Health Health Physicians Under 5 Maternal 1 yr olds fully Population Population Life Funding expenditure (per 100,000 mortality mortality ratio immunised under- having access to expectancy at (% of GDP) per capita people) (per 1,000 (per 100,000 against nourished clean water birth (years) ($US) live births) live births) measles (% of total pop.) Australia 6.5% 3,123 247 5 4 94% 2.5% 100% 80.4 Philippines 1.4% 203 58 25 230 80% 18% 85% 70.3 Vietnam 1.5% 184 53 16 150 95% 16% 85% 73.0 Indonesia 1.0% 118 13 28 420 72% 6% 77% 68.6 Laos 0.8% 74 — 62 660 41% 19% 51% 61.9 Cambodia 1.7% 140 16 98 590 79% 33% 41% 56.8 PNG 3.0% 147 5 55 470 60% — 39% 56.7 Timor-Leste 8.8% 143 10 52 380 48% 9% 58% 58.3 Zimbabwe 3.5% 139 16 81 880 85% 47% 81% 40.0 Cuba 5.5% 229 591 6 45 98% 2.5% 91% 77.2

Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2007-08

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA ANNUAL REPORT 2009 PAGE 4 priorities of governments Department of Health in Health and knowledge about sexually of developing countries. Vietnam, where we Decent Work transmitted infections Approximately half a million assisted the upgrading of Today, much of Union Aid (STIs), the skills to women die in childbirth skills for nurses working in Abroad – APHEDA’s health overcome sexual each year, almost all in rural health clinics. Many of work also takes place in harassment and the ability poor nations, and about these nurses had been the context of the Decent to collectively negotiate 80% of these deaths are trained 20 or 30 years Work agenda of the ILO, better and safer easily preventable. The beforehand, but because UNDP and global union workplaces, is crucial for accompanying table of the war, they had no movement. these workers. dramatically shows the opportunity to upgrade disparity between the their skills through further HIV is a major health issue Asbestos is also a growing numbers of women who training. We also assisted throughout much of problem throughout much die in childbirth for every a nurse training school in southern Africa and within of the developing world. 100,000 live births. In the southern Cambodian some countries of South While asbestos products Australia, 4 women die; in province of Kampot where, East Asia and the Pacific. are generally banned in the our neighbour and former due to the genocide of the Workplace union industrialised world, they colony, PNG, 470 women Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge, structures are a particularly are now cynically being die; while in Zimbabwe, a many nurses had been effective way of educating dumped in the developing staggering 880 women will killed in the years 1975 to people about HIV and world, creating a health die for every 100,000 1979. encouraging the two time bomb for future births. Like education, cultural changes of generations. Union Aid health often has a gender Throughout the intervening protection and Abroad – APHEDA is bias, and the girl child and 25 years, Union Aid empowering women, assisting with projects in women come second Abroad – APHEDA has which are necessary to the Mekong region on when paltry health budgets assisted a variety of combat HIV. Union Aid education concerning are being allocated. health-oriented projects in Abroad – APHEDA assists the health impacts of the Pacific, Vietnam, Thai- HIV education in the asbestos and safe Union Aid Abroad – Burma border, Timor- workplace through peer handling techniques, as APHEDA and health Leste, Aceh province of education with local trade well as campaigning for a When Union Aid Abroad – Indonesia and the unions in South Africa, global ban. APHEDA was established Occupied Palestinian Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Laos, in 1984, our first projects Territories. Cambodia, the Philippines Agent Orange has also were health programs for and PNG. had deleterious health refugees in the Palestinian Today, our health projects impacts on many people in refugee camps in include: Occupational Health and Vietnam. Sprayed as a Lebanon. Dr Helen • Assistance to refugees Safety in the workplace is defoliant during the McCue, a nurse-trainer, from Burma at both the also a crucial health issue. Vietnam war of the 1960s, was working at the time Mae Tao Health Clinic in The ILO estimates that it is now resulting in early for the World Health the Mae Sot region and each year, over 2.2 million deaths and physical and Organisation, training the Shan Health Clinic in workers die from direct intellectual disabilities Palestinian nurses for the the refugee camp at Mae industrial accidents or down to the third 14 refugee camps in that Fah Luang district near through workplace- generation. Union Aid country. She was working Chiang Rai in far northern induced illnesses and Abroad – APHEDA assists beside nurses from Thailand. diseases. This is twice the livelihood skills training for Norwegian People’s Aid, number killed each year in disabled young people in the overseas aid arm of • Assistance to the health wars. Occupational health two provinces in Vietnam the Norwegian trade union clinics in Jenin in the and safety training is a to assist them to get a movement, and she was northern West Bank, run focus of our work in job, earn some income highly impressed with the by the Patient’s Friends Vietnam, Laos and the and assimilate into society work they did. As a strong Society, as well as Philippines. and lead a productive union member herself, she assistance to the El Wafa social life. felt that the Australian Rehabilitation Hospital in One particular project union movement should the Gaza Strip. which links both HIV Health is essential for have a similar organisation. education and OH&S development of the world’s Cliff Dolan, the then- • Many of our livelihood training is with the women poorest. So too is decent President of the ACTU, skills training projects in working in the beer work, which provides agreed, and APHEDA was countries such as promotion industry in working men and women formed. Cambodia also include life Cambodia, where low with sufficient income to skills training in issues wages, job insecurity and provide adequate food, Other early health projects such as reproductive rampant sexual health care and education included working with the health, nutrition and HIV harassment is the norm. for their families. Hoa Binh Province education. Assisting women with

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AFRICA LAO PDR Emergency support, food security, & workplace HIV education, Skills training for women, Lao Women’s Union, Becher Foundation, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions & Zimbabwe Association of AusAID, individual donors Women’s Clubs, unions and individual donors OH&S training, Lao Federation of Trade Unions, BWI, AEU, MUA, Community & trade union media, Workers World Radio individual donors Productions (Cape Town, South Africa), AEU, MUA, SASK (Finland), Mobilising the Hotel Sector in Lao PDR: HIV/AIDS Workplace individual donors Capacity Building, Policies and Partnership, Lao Federation of Developing community care for HIV-affected orphans, Rehoboth Trade Unions, Lao Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Foster Care Village (Port Shepstone, South Africa), Boomerang Labour and Social Welfare, International Labour Organisation & indi- Project donors vidual donors Integrated community development: Nutrition, health care & HIV support, pre-school, income generation and skills training, Mission MIDDLE EAST Vale Care Centre (Missionvale township, South Africa), Missionvale Community Empowerment Project, Women’s Humanitarian Australia donors Organisation (Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp, Lebanon), CFMEU, Community support for vulnerable children & youth in Western LHMU, AusAID Cape Children’s Mobile Activity Centre, Women’s Humanitarian Nutrition and education support, EduCompass, EduCompass Organisation (Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp, Lebanon), Refugees Australia International Japan (RIJ) Nutrition and education support, Stellenbosch Community Legal Literacy Program for Women, Women’s Humanitarian Development Programme, Kyamundi, Jabulani Australia Organisation (Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp, Lebanon), individual Youth leadership training, Educo Africa (Cape Town), individual donors donors Health Care for Aged and Disabled, Women’s Humanitarian Sport and community youth programs, Great Commission United, Organisation (Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp, Lebanon), individual AMP staff donors (APHEDA Palestinian Camps Support Campaign) Support for Western Sahara refugees, Australia Western Sahara Women’s Vocational Training, Women’s Humanitarian Organisation Association, unions, individual donors (Burj Al-Barajneh Refugee Camp, Lebanon), individual donors (Women to Women Program) CAMBODIA Capacity Strengthening for Primary Health Care Workers, Improving Rural Livelihoods Patient’s Friends Society (West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Cambodian Women for Peace and Development (O’Reang Ov Territories), AusAID, individual donors District, Kampong Cham Province), AEU, AusAID, individual donors Food Security through Hen Distribution, MA’AN Development Women in Development Centres (Battambang, Kampot, Oddar Centre (Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories), individual Meanchey, and Preah Vihear provinces), AEU, AusAID, individual donors donors Fostering Medical Rehabilitation Services and Out-Clinics, Union Training Program for Beer Promotion Workers, OH&S and El Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital, (Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Organiser training with two Cambodian unions (CFSWF and IDEA) Territories), Gaza Relief Fund Committee, Rockdale Council, various & ILO Workers Education Project, Qld Nurses Union, individual donors donors HIV/AIDS Education and Support, Cambodian Prostitutes Union PACIFIC HIV Positive Support Group (CWDA – CPU), individual donors Sustainable agricultural training, Melanesian Farmers First Experimentation on High Nutrition, Low Cost Fish Foods, Network and Kastom Gaden Association (PNG Bougainville, Solomon Fisheries Administration (Kampot Province), Cambodian Islands, Vanuatu), individual donors Agricultural Research Fund/ACIAR Rural livelihoods study, Urban settlements (Solomon Islands), individual donors CUBA Tools for vocational training, 9 rural & community training centres Medical equipment, William Soler Children’s Hospital, Cuban in Solomon Islands & 1 in Bougainville, individual donors Children’s Fund, individual donors Financial literacy and small business management, Urban settlements (Solomon Islands), AusAID INDONESIA Youth & Women’s Vocational, Environmental & Literacy Training, Workers’ rights training, Labour Working Group Training Centre Solomon Islands Association of Rural Training Centres, AusAID, IWDA (Bandung), AEU, AMWU, CFMEU, LHMU, MUA, NUW, individual and Live & learn donors Vocational Training, Community Learning for Action Network Workers’ legal rights, Trade Union Rights Centre (Jakarta), ICTUR, (Solomon Islands), AusAID AEU HIV education with trade unions, PNG Trade Union Congress, MUA, Aceh: individual donors Skills training for income generation, PCC, Children on the Edge, Papan, An-Nisa and KSBSI, Projetto Sviluppo (Italy), TUC (UK), CALL PHILIPPINES (Canada), AusAID, individual donors HIV/AIDS training and care, Positive Action Foundation of the Union education and development, trade unions in Aceh, TUC Philippines, Pasasalamat Fund, AusAID, individual donors (UK), individual donors Child workers on Manila’s garbage dumps, IOHSAD, Unions NSW, Health services for people affected by the tsunami and con- individual donors ﬂict, Health Workers’ Union (SPKA), NSW Nurses Association, individual donors

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THAI-BURMA BORDER Trade Union development and capacity building Health care for Shan refugees, Burma Relief Centre & Shan Strengthening the Konfederasaun Sindicatu Timor-Leste (KSTL), Health Committee, ANF Vic, NSW Nurses Assn, HSUA Vic CPSU, CEPU, MUA, USU, individual donors No.2, AusAID Support for Nurses affected by civil unrest, Timor-Leste Nurses’ Skills training for Karen women refugees, Karen Women’s Association, ANF, individual donors Organisation, AEU, individual donors University Library Education assistance for migrant workers’ children, Capacity development for the Universidade Nacional Timor-Leste Burma Labour Solidarity Organisation (BLSO), individual Library, Friends of UNTL, individual donors donors Mae Tao Clinic for critically ill children, Burma Children’s VIETNAM Medical Relief Fund (BCMF), individual donors Work skills training for Agent Orange disabled youth, Hai Ethnic Media Training, Burma Relief Centre (BRC) and BNI, Duong Women’s Union, NSW Nurses Assn, individual donors AusAID Occupational health and safety (OH&S), National Institute for Emergency House for Burmese Migrant Workers, Migrant Labour Protection, Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, APHE- Assistance Program (MAP), individual donors DA and individual donors Cyclone Nargis relief, Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) & HIV education and peer support groups, Hai Duong and Bac Kan Emergency Assistance Team (EAT), individual donors provincial Women’s Unions, Olof Palme Centre (Sweden), SA Unions, AusAID, individual donors TIMOR-LESTE Micro-credit, Bac Kan Farmers’ Union, AusAID, individual donors Vocational Training Corporate Social Responsibility, Vietnam & Finland trade unions, Skills training for income generation through Knua Buka governments and Chambers of Commerce, individual donors, SASK Hatenae (KBH) Training Centre in Dili and four Community (union) & Government & Responsible Importers Network of Finland Learning Centres in regional areas, LAIFET, GFFTL, AMWU, Countering Trafﬁcking of Women and Children, Hai Duong AWU, IEU, LHMU, MUA, AusAID, individual donors Women’s Union, AMWU, AusAID, individual donors Carpentry training, LAIFET (13 carpentry co-operatives in Empowering Union Participation for Strengthening the Work of rural districts) Better Work Vietnam, Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, Mechanical training for motorbike repairs, LAIFET International Labour Organisation Literacy training and income generation activities for rural Health Promotion among Workers in Small and Medium women, GFFTL Enterprises, Nghe An Federation of Labour, Olof Palme Centre Small business management training, KBH, LAIFET, GFFTL (Sweden) Adult education methodology training, KBH, LAIFET, GFFTL Vocational Education for Poor Women and Disabled Youth, Bac Sustainable agricultural training, KBH, LAIFET Kan Women’s Union, AusAID, individual donors Expressional arts/community theatre training, KBH Collective Bargaining Training for Building Workers, Vietnam Computer/IT training for community organisations, KBH, National Union of Building Workers, CFMEU LAIFET, GFFTL OH&S Training Project, Vietnam National Union for Industry and Community Media Trade, AMWU, individual donors Radio Rakambia, Radio Lorico Lian, individual donors, Keir Female Candidate Training, Bac Kan Women’s Union & March 8 Foundation Employment Centre (Hai Duong), Olof Palme Centre (Sweden) Tempo Semanal, individual donors from Fairfax staff

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Upon his release from prison 1. The late former ACTU President, Cliff Dolan, and his wife, in 1990, Nelson Mandela paid Peg (centre left), with Dr Helen McCue (right) and Union Aid Abroad tribute to APHEDA’s work: – APHEDA’s Administration Officer for 20 years, Dorothy Ingram “APHEDA has a long history (left). Cliff and Helen founded APHEDA in 1984. 2. Tas Bull was Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s second of support for the anti- Chairperson, replacing Cliff Dolan in September 1995, until his apartheid struggle. On passing in May 2003. behalf of the African 3. Nelson Mandela. Among Australian aid agencies, Union Aid National Congress, we would Abroad – APHEDA led the fight for freedom and democracy in like to express our deep South Africa against the apartheid regime. appreciation for your 4. NSW Governor Marie Bashir presents an award to Union Aid efforts. APHEDA’s Abroad – APHEDA Chair Sandra Moait. 5. APHEDA staff members in 1999, (l-R) Lisa Arnold, development assistance Dorothy Ingram, former Executive Officer Phillip Hazelton and programs have made a very Marj O’Callaghan with visiting dignitaries (including Mrs Huong, significant contribution. centre) from the Vietnam Women’s Union. Assistance is not only 6. Barbara Fitzgerald has been the APHEDA Coordinator in Cambodia since 1993. Di Butler, a nurse, has visited Cambodia material, or helping realise as a technical adviser on HIV training for APHEDA many times the ultimate goal of freedom since 1995. in South Africa – assistance is about people, about people in Australia caring enough about our people to contribute financially, to contribute their time, their skills and emotions. This is what sustains us. This is what is irreplaceable in human endeavor. This is the true meaning of solidarity. We thank you and the people of Australia, and will be eternally grateful for your 3 magnificent contribution.” 4

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1. Elisabeth de Araujo is the Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA Coordinator in Timor-Leste. Elisabeth began with APHEDA in 2001 after working as a journalist, human rights investigator and development officer in Timor-Leste. As country coordinator, she runs the local office in Dili plus a range of development projects. 2. Following the tsunami in December 2004, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assisted in the Indonesian province of Aceh with reconstruction and livelihood skills training, focusing on women who were widowed by the tsunami. Over 3,800 people were trained in 17 different skills areas. APHEDA also continues to assist the development of trade unions in Aceh. 3. As one of the many contributions towards democracy in South Africa during the apartheid era, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA trained key personnel from a number of Departments of 1 the African National Congress while they were banned and living in exile in neighbouring frontline states. The ANC’s Treasury Department, Women’s Department and Information & Publicity Departments were trained, including Saul Pelle (Information Dept) and Virginia Modise (Education Department) who both studied in Australia in 1989-90. 4. The Labour Working Group Training Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, provides trade union training for organisers, delegates and trainers for over 30 key democratic unions in Indonesia. Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA first began assistance to the LWG-TC in 1999. 5. Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assists several projects with some of the estimated 160,000 refugees from Burma living in camps on the Thai-Burma border. One project assists the health clinic in the Ban Thoed refugee camp near Chiang Rai in northern Thailand.

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1. Between 1987 and 1999, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assisted the Kanak people of New Caledonia with community health worker training, HIV education and media training for their own Kanak radio station, Radio Djido. At that time, the Kanak people were struggling for autonomy from France. In 1989, Laura Uregai became the 3rd Kanak journalist from Radio Djiido to train in radio jour- nalism with the ABC Staff Union. 2. In the Democratic Republic of Lao, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA has assisted livelihood skills training for disadvantaged women since 2001, and OH&S training with the Lao Federation of Trade Unions since 2004. After skills training, many women receive micro-credit loans to establish their own small business. 3. In the West Bank and Gaza, working through our partner the MA’AN Development Centre since 2005, we have assisted disadvantaged families, often headed by women, with domestic food production for home consumption, such as vegetables, chickens, rabbits and fruit trees. 4. Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s ﬁrst project in 1984 was with Palestinian women in the Bourj el Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Today, through our partner, the Women’s Humanitarian Organisation, we assist skills training for women, health care for the elderly, and literacy for pre-school children who must be able to read and write before they are permitted to begin primary school. 5. In the Philippines, since 1986, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA has assisted a variety of projects including OH&S training through the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety development (IOHSAD) and today, HIV education for over 5 20,000 Filipino workers heading overseas each year.

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1. In Papua New Guinea, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assists HIV education and training with the PNG Trades Union Congress. Unions, through the structure of workplace delegates, provide an ideal avenue for peer education for workers on issues such as HIV. 2. In the Solomon Islands, agricultural training is one of the many livelihood skills that Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assists, working through 45 Community Learning Centres, most of which are in rural areas. 3. In Timor-Leste, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assists literacy and vocational skills training such as sewing, tailoring, and handicraft production for women, as well as carpentry, agriculture and mechanical repair training for men. We also help strengthen the trade union movement, assist community media and the National University library as well as an expressional arts group for unemployed youth. 4. In Vietnam, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s ﬁrst projects in 1986 were retraining and skills updating for provincial nurses, and over the years, we have also assisted women’s livelihood skills training and health education in rural areas through the Vietnam Women’s Union. Today our major focus is on workers’ rights by strengthening factory-based unions with negotiating skills, OH&S and HIV education, working with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour. 5. In Zimbabwe, a country destroyed by the despotic ruler Robert Mugabe, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA assists HIV education with the Zimbabwe Council of Trade Unions as well as food distribution through the Association of Women’s Clubs. 5

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA PAGE 11 25YEARS! ANNUAL REPORT 2009 COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND CAMPAIGNS

Asbestos – a silent killer waiting to strike

Asbestos has taken an environmental health issue unforgivable toll on for workers and their Australian life. Unsafe In 2007, 2.3 million tonnes communities. For example, practices by companies in in the post-war the pursuit of proﬁt have of asbestos were mined environment in Timor-Leste left thousands of in 2000, Union Aid Abroad Australians with asbestos- and sold, primarily by – APHEDA and its partners related diseases which will identiﬁed asbestos as a ultimately claim their lives. countries like Zimbabwe, major worker and public Whilst Australia has been health issue. After proportionally one of the Russia, China and Canada. surveying the situation it most affected countries, emerged that asbestos hundreds of thousands of handling practices were workers around the world endangering the lives of have suffered similar fates. thousands of workers. After the tireless efforts of Union Aid Abroad – the union movement, APHEDA then worked with Australia joined more than the Environmental 40 other countries in Protection Unit of the declaring a comprehensive United Nations Transitional ban on asbestos in 2003. Authority of East Timor and the Timorese But imagine a world where Department of Health to countries, knowing that conduct an audit of asbestos kills workers and asbestos use in Timor- their families, were Leste, and to develop the exporting and using Guidelines for Asbestos asbestos at an ever Trainees in asbestos removal in Timor-Leste Abatement in East Timor, increasing rate. Combine which was eventually this with appalling developing countries have by instituting adopted as a national occupational health and exposed to its substantial comprehensive bans. But standard. Union Aid safety systems for workers exports. Asia continues to lag Abroad – APHEDA also and it is clear that this behind. This is particularly worked with the Labour would constitute a public An estimated 125 million concerning as asbestos Advocacy Institute of East health time-bomb. workers are occupationally use is increasingly Timor to provide training to exposed to asbestos each becoming an Asian story; workers in handling Sadly, this is a reality for year – and around Asia uses half the world’s asbestos in destroyed the majority of the world’s 100,000 of them will die asbestos at an ever buildings with Australian workers. In 2007, 2.3 each year because of it. It increasing rate, primarily in technical support of the million tonnes of asbestos is not unreasonable to China, India, Thailand, Construction, Forestry, were mined and sold, suggest that this Vietnam and Indonesia. As Mining and Energy Union primarily by countries like represents the very tip of yet, no developing country (CFMEU). Zimbabwe, Russia, China the iceberg of this in Asia has a and Canada. These epidemic, with most comprehensive ban on all Throughout 2009-2010, countries perpetuate the countries unable to forms of asbestos. Union Aid Abroad – myth that chrysotile (white) undertake differential APHEDA will renew its asbestos is somehow safe diagnosis. Union Aid Abroad – commitment to protecting to use – but experience APHEDA and the workers from the scourge tells us that the primary Whilst the pro-asbestos Australian trade union of asbestos disease, handlers of asbestos are lobby argues that asbestos movement have long utilising the hard-won almost never given the is essential for low-cost recognised asbestos and technical expertise of the personal protective housing and economic asbestos diseases as an Australian union equipment they need. growth, countries as important public and movement. Canada’s role is particularly diverse as South Africa, shameful as asbestos is Egypt, New Caledonia and recognised as hazardous Honduras have proved for Canadian workers, but that worker health is the For further information, please visit www.apheda.org.au not for the millions in most important asset they

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA ANNUAL REPORT 2009 PAGE 12 Key Fundraising Initiatives

Strong, consistent support of our work by trade unions and many individual union members highlights the level of commitment shown to international justice, decent work and equity.

Monthly Giving Program Fundraising Events AusAID Individual union members, delegates Our annual raffle, Festive Season Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA also and officials can become Global cards, Gifts that Change Lives, end of bids for AusAID contracts on a Justice Partners and make regular financial year and festive season competitive basis, and in the 2008-09 monthly, tax deductible donations to appeals and annual dinners in Sydney, financial year was successful in assist our training programs overseas. Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and winning contracts for food security for Already almost 2000 Australian the south coast of NSW, all add to Palestinian families in the West Bank unionists are Global Justice Partners our income. This year we also raised and Gaza, and also for livelihood skills providing Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA funds through an auction at the ACTU training in the Solomon Islands. with long-term reliable income, Congress dinner. Your support for enabling us to plan our development these activities is greatly valued. projects with confidence. If you would like to become a Global Justice Partner contact offi[email protected].

Union Support Union support is at the core of our fundraising. Trade union support continued to grow in 2008-09, with the ACTU and many unions demonstrating their commitment to international solidarity and justice by giving generously for our work.

Activists in each state Dedicated and committed groups of activists/supporters in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, ACT, Tasmania and around Wollongong, each year raise funds for projects and campaign on a variety of human rights and development issues. Their commitment is inspiring and their activities are always greatly Lucia Matibenga from the Zimbabwe Council of Trade Unions appreciated. To be involved, contact with the CPSU delegation at ACTU Congress, 2009. our office. THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS Our union sponsors: Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Education Union, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Australian Nursing Federation, Australian Nursing Federation – Victorian Branch, Australian Workers Union, Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union, Community and Public Sector Union – PSU Group, Community and Public Sector Union – SPSF Group, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Independent Education Union, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Maritime Union of Australia, National Tertiary Education Union, National Union of Workers, NSW Nurses Association, Queensland Nurses Union, United Services Union, Unions NSW and the Tas Bull Memorial International Aid Committee. Our union members: The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia, Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association, Australian Salaried Medical Officers Association, Australian Services Union, Finance Sector Union, Flight Attendants’ Association, Health Services Union of Australia, Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, NSW Police Association, Rail, Tram and Bus Union, Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union, Transport Workers Union, United Firefighters Union of Australia. Unions ACT, Unions NSW, Northern Territory Trades & Labor Council, Queensland Council of Unions, SA Unions, Unions Tasmania, Unions WA, Victorian Trades Hall Council. Our individual donors: All members of our Global Justice Partners Program, all members of our Paylink and Paylink Plus Programs, all individual members, all who donated to our overseas projects, everyone who bought raffle tickets, Festive Season cards or came to our events, our vibrant and inspiring activist community and the many generous people who supported our various appeals throughout the year. Donors to appeals: Gaza Relief Fund Committee, NSW Retired Teachers Association, Rockdale Council, Justice for Palestine, Australian Arab Business Network, CJPP,Association of Bhanin El-Minieh Region. Our volunteers overseas: Barbara Fitzgerald, Alex McClean, Sue Butler, Rick Butler, Karen Myers, Di Gluckstern, Deb Nicholls, Cathy Bloch, Adam Kaminski, Katie Camarena, Sarah Gardner. Our volunteers on Community Education: All who participated in our study tours, and our many community activists and union trainers who assisted with education and campaigns. Our company sponsors: Members Equity Bank, ACTU Member Connect, AustralianSuper, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Allens Arthur Robinson. Our international donors: ILO, UNISON (UK), TUC (UK), Olof Palme Centre (Sweden), SASK (Finland), Projetto Sviluppo (Italy), Building and Woodworkers International, Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers, Refugees International Japan. Workers’ Clubs: Dickson Workers Club, Woden Workers Club, Revesby Workers Club, Sutherland Trade Union Club, Mt Druitt Building Workers Club. Our alliances: Pasasalamat Fund, Keir Foundation, Becher Foundation, Cuban Children’s Fund, Indigo Foundation, The Boomerang Project, The Hunger Project, Friends of UNTL Library, Australia Burma Friendship Association, Palestinian Camps Support Campaign, Women to Women, Australian Western Sahara Association, Gogo Foundation, EduCompass Australia, Missionvale Australia, Jabulani Australia, Educo Africa. Our support groups in each State: Natasha Joyce (Vic), Beth Mohle (Qld), Jan Schultz (SA), Pat Branson (WA), Cate Davey (Tas), David Perkins (ACT) our many valued volunteers in the Sydney office.

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA PAGE 13 25YEARS! ANNUAL REPORT 2009 Table of Cash Movements for Designated Purposes for the Year Ended 30 June 2009

Cash raised during the ﬁnancial year Cash disbursed during the ﬁnancial year

Cash AusAID Interest APHEDA AusAID APHEDA Transfer Cash available Income Income disbursed disbursed to/from available at start during during other at end of of year year year project year AUSAID FUNDED PROJECTS account SOLOMON IS 44,609 189,759 2,087 172,564 63,891

ANCP 0 643,558 15,908 296,491 659,466 296,491 0 0

MIDDLE EAST 0 1,456,591 158 0 133,182 0 0 1,323,567 Total 44,609 2,289,908 18,153 296,491 965,212 296,491 0 1,387,458

APHEDA FUNDED PROJECTS

OTHER PROJECTS TOTAL 2,447,278 0 90,261 2,094,656 0 2,647,331 0 1,984,864

APHEDA GENERAL ACCOUNT 1,028,784 0 51,783 547,607 0 712,279 0 915,895 ACCUMULATED FUNDS (CASH ADJUSTED) Total 3,520,671 2,289,908 160,197 2,938,754 965,212 3,656,101 0 4,288,217

Income and expenditure

APHEDA Income — 2000-01 to 2008-09 APHEDA Expenditure 2008-09

5,000,000 7.1% 5.1% 1.7% 4,000,000 6.7%

3,500,000

3,000,000

2,500,000

2,000,000 79.4% 1,500,000

1,000,000

500,000

0 Overseas Projects $3,965,201 (79.4%) 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 06-07 07-08 08-09 Project Management & Monitoring $332,639 (6.7%) Income for year 2008-09 Ofﬁce Administration $253,153 (5.1%) Government Project Grants $2,289,908 Information, Publicity & Fundraising $354,680 (7.1%) Union and General $3,283,161 Global Education $86,640 (1.7%) Total Income $5,573,069 Total Expenditure $4,992,313(7.4%)

At June 2009, Union Aid Abroad’s Management Committee is:

Sandra Moait Former President, Unions NSW (Chairperson) Angelo Gavrielatos President, Australian Education Union Sharan Burrow President, ACTU (Vice-Chairperson) Natasha Joyce Lead Organiser, CS&E, CPSU Paul Bastian Secretary, AMWU NSW Branch (Hon. Treasurer) Liz Hannan-Farrar Clinical Nurse Educator – St Vincent’s Hospital Cathy Bloch Educator, ACTU Organising Centre (ret.) (Hon. Secretary) Lynne Ridge Marketing Ofﬁcer, NSW Nurses Association Tim Kennedy Assistant Secretary, National Union of Workers

The Management Committee received no fees, salaries, allowances or compensation for serving on the Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA board.

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA ANNUAL REPORT 2009 PAGE 14 APHEDA Inc. Summary of Financial Report, June 2009

INCOME STATEMENT FOR DIRECTORS’ DECLARATION THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009 In the opinion of the Directors, the financial report, a full copy of which is available from the APHEDA Inc. Sydney office: REVENUE 2009 2008 a) Presents fairly the financial position of Australian People for Health, Education and $$Development Abroad Incorporated as at 30 June 2009 and its performance for the year Donations and gifts – general – monetary 2,314,463 3,246,175 ended on that date in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards, other author- Donations and gifts – non-monetary 202,362 235,440 itative pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and the require- Grants AusAID 2,289,908 708,878 ments of the NSW Associations Incorporations Act, 1984. Other – Overseas 199,837 426,571 b) At the date of this statement, there are reasonable grounds to believe that Australian Other – Australian 28,694 - People for Health, Education and Development Abroad Incorporated will be able to pay Legacies and bequests 50,000 75,000 its debts as and when they fall due. Investment Income/Interest received 160,197 182,575 This statement is made in accordance with a resolution of the Directors and is signed Other income 327,608 298,525 on behalf of the Directors by: Total Revenue 5,573,069 5,173,164

DISBURSEMENTS Funds to Overseas Projects – general 3,965,201 3,842,918 Sandra Moait, Chairperson Paul Bastian, Hon. Treasurer Other Project Costs 332,639 230,737 Signed this 5th day of November, 2009 Community Education 86,640 83,012 Fundraising Costs: INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF APHEDA INC. Public 325,835 297,400 Scope: We have audited the summarised financial report of APHEDA Inc. for the finan- Government 28,845 9,230 cial year ended 30 June 2009 comprising the summarised Income Statement, sum- Office Administration in Australia 253,153 194,217 marised Balance Sheet, summarised Statement of Changes in Equity and Directors’ Total Disbursements 4,992,313 4,657,514 Declaration. The directors are responsible for the summarised financial report. We have Excess of revenue over disbursements 580,756 515,650 conducted an independent audit of this summarised financial report in order to express Funds available for future use an opinion on it to the members. at the beginning of the financial year 3,212,163 2,696,513 Our audit has been conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards to provide reasonable assurance whether the summarised financial report is free of material Funds available for future use misstatement. We have also performed an independent audit of the full financial report at the end of the financial year 3,792,919 3,212,163 of APHEDA Inc. for the year ended 30 June 2009. Our audit report on the full financial report was signed on 5th November 2009, and was not subject to any qualification. BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2009 Our procedures in respect of the audit of the summarised financial report included test- 2009 2008 ing that the information in the summarised financial report is consistent with the full $$ ASSETS financial report, and examination, on a test basis, of evidence supporting the amounts Current Assets and other disclosures which were not directly derived from the full financial report. Cash and Cash Equivalents 4,288,217 3,520,671 These procedures have been undertaken to form an opinion whether, in all material Other Current Assets 12,775 9,781 respects, the summarised financial report is presented fairly in accordance with Total Current Assets 4,300,992 3,530,452 Accounting Standards. Non-Current Assets Independence: In conducting our audit, we followed applicable independence require- Plant & Equipment 12,379 5,851 ments of the Australian professional accounting bodies. Total Non-Current Assets 12,379 5,851 Audit Opinion: In our opinion, the information reported in the summarised financial Total Assets 4,313,371 3,536,303 report is consistent with the full financial report from which it is derived and upon which LIABILITIES we expressed our unqualified audit opinion in our report to members dated 5th Current Liabilities November 2009. For a better understanding of the scope of our audit, this report Trade and Other Payables – Current 462,350 276,729 should be read in conjunction with our audit report on the full financial report. Total Current Liabilities 462,350 276,729 Matters Relating to the Electronic Presentation of the Audited Summarised Non-Current Liabilities Financial Report: This audit report relates to the summarised financial report of APHE- Provisions 58,102 47,411 DA Inc. for the year ended 30 June 2009 included on the APHEDA Inc. website. The Total Non-Current Liabilities 58,102 47,411 Directors of APHEDA Inc. Are responsible for the integrity of the APHEDA Inc. website. Total Liabilities 520,452 324,140 Net Assets 3,792,919 3,212,163 We have not been engaged to report on the integrity of the APHEDA Inc. website. This audit report refers only to the statements named below. It does not provide an opinion EQUITY on any other information that may have been hyper-linked to / from these statements. Accumulated Funds 3,792,919 3,212,163 If users of this report are concerned with the inherent risks arising from electronic data Total Equity 3,792,919 3,212,163 communications they are advised to refer to the hard copy of the audited financial report to confirm the information included in the audited summarised financial report presented on this website. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009 A J Williams & Co, Chartered Accountants Accumulated Funds Total David McLean, Registered Company Auditor Balance at 30 June 2008 3,212,163 3,212,163 2 Market Street Excess of revenue over expenses 580,756 580,756 Sydney NSW 2000 Amount transferred (to)/from reserves 0 0 Signed this 5th day of November, 2009

Balance at 30 June 2009 3,792,919 3,792,919

A full set of our audited accounts are available for inspection at our Sydney ofﬁce at Level 3, 377 Sussex Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

UNION AID ABROAD APHEDA PAGE 15 25YEARS! ANNUAL REPORT 2009 In Aceh, thousands of livelihoods were affected by the tsunami. These women are just two of the hundreds who have since completed APHEDA’s organic agriculture training. They have a laugh as they collect manure from local ﬁelds, having learnt to turn it into highly effective organic fertiliser. They use the fertiliser on their own gardens, and also create an income for themselves by selling the excess to other farmers in their district.

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