Tia International Aid

Founder(s): 
Tessa Henwood-Mitchell
Founded: 
2009
Focus Area: 
Disadvantaged Youth
Website: 
http://tia.org.au/

Tia International endeavours to work together with communities to empower and make sustainable change to the lives of children and adolescents facing the hardships that are associated with poverty and disadvantage, with the end goal of enabling them to reach their full potential through long-term community development.

Tia International Aid is a Youth-led organisation run by people 26 years old and under with the aim of creating a global community working together to end poverty and inequality. 

Tia International Objectives:

  • Provide and/or support training, services and materials for institutions that are working to improve the well-being of disadvantaged children globally;
  • Improve the situations and alleviate the poverty to which the children are initially subject;
  • Encourage the wider community to be aware of the difficulties faced by the children living in situations of disadvantage and poverty in the areas where our work is based;
  • Focus on development and sustainability as the key elements to successful aid