Year Highlights 2024
Features news (in alphabetical order) from Bolivia, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Africa and the USA. In February 2024, GULL partners the Central University of Technology (CUT) and the University of the Free State organised a progress review in the remote Free State area of Nogas Post, South Africa and then CUT hosted a GULL graduation event. In May, El Alfarero, Bolivia celebrated the tenth year of its El Aprendiz programme in Strategic Leadership for Ministry supported by GULL. In 2024, there are 25 El Aprendiz candidates, reflecting growth in numbers year on year. On 26 May, GULL participants from Kuala Lumpur and various regions of Malaysia received their GULL awards and by 2025, we anticipate participants from China. Following this, representatives from AusCam (Cambodia) and GULL discussed the expanding anti-exploitation movement at a meeting in Phnom Penh. Finally, 206 Compass USA associates received their GULL awards at 17 graduation events that took place throughout the USA during June.
Mid Year Highlights 2022
Features news (in sequence) from Papua New Guinea and South Africa and a tribute to the late Sir Paulias Matane, Eight Governor General of Papua New Guinea and Founding Chancellor of GULL. GULL and the Human Development Institute’s ‘Personal Viability’ system (est. 1996) were both launched from Papua New Guinea and since 2007, GULL has supported lifelong action learning in 60 countries. The vision for GULL as a non-profit, inclusive approach to community-led learning came from Sir Paulias Matane who died on 11 December 2021, aged 90. Paulias was orphaned at a young age and lived in a subsistence village, yet he overcame disadvantage and eventually became a Commonwealth Head of State.
Year Highlights 2023
Features news from Australia, Bolivia (2022), Jamaica, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, South Africa (2022/23) and the USA. In November 2022, GULL partners the Central University of Technology and the University of the Free State organised a GULL community briefing event in the remote Free State area of Nogas Post, South Africa and in June 2023, participants received their first GULL award. On Friday May 12, 2023, The Weekender newspaper in Papua New Guinea reported that Samuel Tam Snr (‘Papa Sam’) had delivered his 200th Personal Viability (PV) course and we celebrated this achievement on 20 May 2023.
2021
End of Year Highlights - 2021
Features news from Papua New Guinea and South Africa and a tribute to the late Sir Paulias Matane
2020
End of Year Highlights - 2020
Featuring news (in sequence) from India, Papua New Guinea, a new initiative for the continent of Africa and Bolivia.
2019
End of Year Highlights - 2019
Features news (in sequence) from Laos, Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa, Northern Cyprus and Jamaica
2018
End of Year Highlights - 2018
Features news (in sequence) from Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa, Tanzania and Bolivia
2018
Mid Year Highlights - 2018
Features news from the Ivory Coast, Rwanda, the UK, Malaysia, the USA, Jamaica, Kenya and Rwanda.
2017
End of Year Highlights - 2017
Features news (in sequence) from Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the USA, Jamaica, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
2016
End of Year Highlights - 2016
Features news (in sequence) from Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Sri Lanka.
2016
Mid Year Highlights - 2016
Featuring news (in sequence) from Australia, the USA, Jamaica, St Maarten, the UK, Kenya, Rwanda, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, the USA and UK.
2015
End of Year Highlights - 2015
Featuring news from El Salvador, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Bolivia. (July – December)
2015
Mid Year Highlights - 2015
Featuring news from Saint Maarten, Jamaica, the USA, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, South Africa & Mexico. (January – June)
2014
End of Year Highlights - 2014
Featuring news (in sequence) from Papua New Guinea, USA, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Guatemala & Macau, SAR China. (July – December)
2014
Mid Year Highlights - 2014
Featuring news (in sequence) from Nigeria, Malaysia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and Chad. (January – June)
2013
Annual Highlights - 2013
A chronological review of the year featuring some of the key events, images and outcomes, 2013
Q4: Oct– Dec 2013
Burundi, Jamaica, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, St Maarten and the United States of America
Q3: March – June 2013
Australia, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates
Q1: January – March 2013
Developments in South East Asia (East Timor, Cambodia) and West Africa (Nigeria)
2012
Annual News Highlights - 2012
A chronological review of the year featuring some of the key events, images and outcomes
South East Asia: Starting in China
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China | 16-23 October, 2012
A sustainable future? Island life after the gold mine
Papua New Guinea & Australia, 20 September | 05 October, 2012
Community development in Sri Lanka
Lifelong action learning and community development, Sri Lanka | 14-21 August, 2012
Partnering for quality education and learning outcomes
Partnering for quality education and learning outcomes in Asia-Pacific, Thailand | 5-8 June, 2012