Michael Milton Features in Austcare TV Campaign

Austcare has changed its name to ActionAid Australia For more information please visit the ActionAid website www.actionaid.org.au

Michael Milton will feature in a television campaign for Austcare, the first for the international humanitarian aid organisation.

Watch the television appeal here.

The campaign began screening on SBS TV on 21 January, and is now being shown on television stations around Australia.

Having worked in over 30 countries for over 40 years, this is the first time Austcare has invested in a television campaign to promote their cause and to call for donations to help fund their many programs.

Milton travelled to Africa in September 2005 to climb Mt Kilimanjaro and, while there, visited Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya where Austcare funds a number of vocational and educational programs.

"I was overawed by the sheer number of refugees in the camp, around 90,000 at the time. If it weren't for organisations like Austcare, they would have nothing to do and nothing to look forward to. Funding from Austcare has helped set up courses in dress-making, masonry, agriculture, carpentry and computing.

"This sort of assistance gives refugees hope. They look forward to a time when they can go home and help to rebuild their communities or perhaps get a job if they are repatriated to somewhere like Australia," said Milton.

In the campaign, which makes use of much of the footage shot by Milton and his crew while in Africa, he calls for people to make small donations that can genuinely change lives.

"As little as $50 can help someone to start a small business and become self-sufficient and the flow-on effects of that in a community can be enormous," said Milton, one of Austcare's voluntary  ambassadors.

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Austcare has changed its name to ActionAid Australia For more information please visit the ActionAid website www.actionaid.org.au