Projects
BIC is currently running its first pilot project the "LETTER PROJECT". This project is designed to engage and empower some of the seniors in your local community, giving them a voice and the ability to give back by raising funds for the disadvantaged. Please watch this space as more information will be coming through in October 2017 - We want to tell you the stories of these amazing seniors in your community.
What we Have Done and What are we Doing
Project #1: ARCHIVING ANGELS The first project began after the death of Jason's mother to cancer in 2011. MacCartie began photographing cancer survivors in the small town of Roma, Queensland. This potent and life-affirming process and exhibition entitle Archiving Angels raised money for the Queensland Cancer Council and gave the subjects a chance to share their stories.
Project #2: WATER Talks with Prabhat Alloi Inc. a Melbourne-based organisation assisting rural Indian communties in sustainable bottom-up development. At BIC we have considerable environmental engineering experience that we intend to use for the purposes if improving water supply and irrigation for the community Prabhat Alloi supports. Watch this space for 2015 Water updates!
Project #3: WATER & SANITATION BIC assisted Rotary International build pedestal toilets at Pienuna Secondary School, water tanks and outlets to outpatient's room and birthing room at Pienuna Nurse Aid Station. Solomon Islands 2016
Project#4 WATER & SANITATION BIC conducted on-site investigations with BEYOND WATER into potential water / humanitarian projects also securing funds to build toilets in local school in East Africa with beyond water.East Africa 2017
Project #5 HUMANITARIAN AID BIC travelled with the multidisciplinary medical team to Athens, Chios & Thessaloniki ,assisting IVI with the Syrian refugees crisis https://www.volunteering.org.au Syrian Refugees 2017
If you would like to participate, ask questions or talk to past participants please email maccartie@optusnet.com.au
First Project
Archiving Angels at the Roma on Bungil Gallery in 2013 raised funds for the Queensland Cancer Council and was attended by more than 200 local community members. This exhibition documented and told the stories of women from the Roma community who had experienced cancer. Archiving Angels was a great success not only from a financial point of view, but because it gave those women an opportunity to express one of the most difficult times of their lives. As a result many people in the community were also made more aware of the importance of early detection. Click on the image below to scroll through.
