Hey Folks!

Take a look at our BLOG above for latest good folks from all churches and all social groups who love to help the kids too so bypassing all limitations of race, creed, denominations,languages and any thing else silly billies like to fight over.

Let’s keep it all for generosity to the children from our big hearts.

Background info below with big hugs to the past helpers and to the present ones too.

Keeping lively to help the kiddies.

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The Goodwill Foundation International is a family  and friends small organisation that has set about assisting children and young adults in need, with their education needs so that they will have the freedom to learn and live in peace as peacemakers  and to develop in confidence and character to spread peace globally.  Our young people of the world  are our future and they have the right to learn and we have the responsibility to make it possible.Peace and sharing is the “goodwill ” passion and the reason for the name of the foundation.

Let’s all do some simple “goodwill” for children direct in education needs, was the call  that continues today.

IT ALL BEGAN

We heard, It all began in a visit to a fish and chip shop in Mackay in Queensland Australia.
A doctor and a judge  were visiting Mackay an were collecting family fish and chips meal to  in the week after cyclone Tracy went into Darwin.A discussion began with small beginnings bouncing and flowing.

1976:

Topic of conversation: The sad TV scenes of orphaned Darwin children. Suddenly some very young teenagers began fighting outside the Mackay fish and chip shop on the main street of Mackay.

Dr W.. said: More sad children to watch. They need a good feed.

Judge W… said: They need a good education as their foundation for a better life so the sad children scenes don’t continue here too.

RESULT:

So began the Foundation Goodwill  as a small step plan to build a better future for children in their own locale by many generous helpers from all walks of life, by aiding education as they saw the need.

A small event example of some of the things they began was seen when  the Judge W… quietly provided a bus in 1993 to use to travel problem youths in Australia to find new directions of lifestyle for living the truths of goodwill to all. All of those youths went on to change their lives into “bouncing and shining forth goodwill to others” and further studies and still sponsor children in need too now.. He set the standard of :

“Go do it quietly without fuss, to bounce the peace and goodwill in contrast to the needy, to stop the bad kids from getting worse. Let them find a solution in bouncing goodwill instead of drugs etc.

Some other “cattle cockies” (farmers)  and close friends from around Australia and from many different companies, religions, casts etc,, helped too in genuine humble and heartfelt ways. The Goodwill way of generosity to children became for many their preferred way to tithe too. Education fees of generosity  for some local children soon spread to other nations and cities through the word of mouth discussions with family and friends and their many different churches too – many of whom had been ‘chased off’ or cheesed off” they claimed by some charity organisations. So the decision to do it as their quiet way to help and without public fanfare. The natural generosity of hearts for children in need only waits to be bounced in genuine non -profit ways of giving generously and this foundation also allows the donors to change their lives too through the helping of the children in need.Then along came Susie Whitehead with all her contacts in churches and companies and bush families to expand the giving to needy children for no profit.

EXPANDED:

To include children in Pacific islands in quiet ways of peaceful foundations of doing the “bouncing the goodwill for Kids education”. This continued on a snail pace of goodwill until the events of July 1998 in Aitape West PNG.

PNG  1998

PNG On July 16^th 1998 religious crusaders threw statues and icons into the ocean as a ‘Carmel cleanup’. The next day according to the locals, the ocean threw back a tsunami after an earthquake in the ocean. Susie Whithead was inspired to call for more religious folks of all denominations and her friends and family to come to help heal the hurts there.

2183 people were killed and 10,000 were homeless with school teachers and children swept away in the floods.

Image Sources:NOAA/NGDC, Hugh Davies, University of PNG
NOAA/NGDC, Father Eugene McKinnon, OFM, Hugh Davies, 
University of PNG.

Susie Williams-Whitehead

Susie Williams-Whitehead and friends and family soon sparked up some of the ‘cattle cockies’ and many friends  from so many different groups and religious congregations,into more speed with collecting clothes, foods, school needs to go to Aitape missing/massive needs at schools of Warapu, Sisano, Arop near Aitape as their “goodwill thing” also to help PNG to rebuild a base foundation for the education of the PNG children.

Susie and friends began the “Children to Children” work and “Child Direct”sponsors  to support school fees  and other peaceful needs as a further foundation of helping children without fuss or praise wanted.Susie even took off and went to Aitape with her friends to assist with support and distributions too as well as pray with the local churches for healing and recovery.It was a true crusade of Giving with love and prayer to all freely. So many  generous donors today, still follow that example of Susie and her friends,also  still travel to assist their sponsor children to become dynamic new adults through caring education works that foster peace between communities.

 

 

 

Peaceful Foundations of GOODWILL  to foster local friends in education and on into business soon blossomed  through the close friends of Susie and her Whitehead-Williams clan and many friends , spreading to,in South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Brazil, Vanuatu, PNG and Indonesia, Malaysia and Fiji to “bounce the goodwill abroad for the kids”  as they travelled worldwide so that we came to know of.

The earthquake in Vanuatu in 2003 was another rallying of the humble service  of little “Susie”steps to bring aid to  the children Of Vanuatu and began the Foundation Goodwill in Vanuatu with Susie and her friend there.

Susie: ” I just make little steps and so many generous people join in to help for free. We like to think of it like taking pumpkins and turning the generosity freely given into Education carriages for the children”.

Susie  again spearheaded this  humbly and  was committed to other children in need as well as her own and as she had also joined Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association) in 1977 and then onto PCAP to do more for children in need.

Susie was contagious to inspire her friends and others from any” walk of life” to take the reigns and do more goodwill bouncing from happy children to children in need.Sr Susie called it “Children to Children” and fees paid direct to ” Child Direct” programs to school bank accounts soon made it easier.

She was the ultimate true Good Samaritan  of no set denomination and had amazing trust in people & did more than most realised. No one could resist her passion to help the children and get us involved too through our own businesses and many church groups too.

— Susie’s heart knew no bounds was much loved by all and encouraged others to sponsor and coach children especially then in Vanuatu  which continue today.

 

So  few  who knew her, even  knew of all that she did for other children  in the world too.Her heart was big and humble too and she was “contagious to bouncing hearts of goodwill”.However her work continues through many others today.

For example: the sweet love-passion  of her time with  those  who she and her own family  spent the last  precious 6 months of her life in 2014 with, in  the humble places of Vanuatu  where she had also helped so many.

Many of Susie’s friends had already retired to the paradise of beautiful weather in Vanuatu and it was a special time for them with her. Out of their heartfelt discussions came plans to expand further with a Vanuatu school for helping children lacking schooling that the education could not reach or provide for.

John Tonner  in Vanuatu was one of her oldest family friends who  offered to help children in need freely with no strings attached  just like Susie  and his parents had done and had taught.  More than half of the GOODWILL school children are now on scholarships from John’s family and friends now.

Susie’s influence again, as the Whitehead and Tonner family  grew in Townsville  in Northern Australia and surrounds, and were well used to making more use of old train carriages and shipping containers. Both families took in many in need of accommodation and food during John’s childhood.

John  Tonner  was a Business man in Vanuatu an went to action to give generously for the  delivery of a whole library in 2014 and more  to Vanuatu needs and then for providing a GOODWill school to begin in Oct 2015 as a honouring of Susie after her recent passing.
John Tonner and family  and business colleagues collected and donated more  desks and chairs and musical instruments and curriculum books  and stationaries and libraries too to many schools in Vanuatu during 2016 as the work continues.

Giving freely feels good and so Good  continues.

GOODWILL 1st Birthday celebration in Vanuatu  with Fireworks at school on 16/10/2016 at sunset too. Now John distributes more school equipments in Vanuatu every month from the generous donations sent to him for this Goodwill free goal for the children in need.

Cyclone Pam  2015, hastened  action again with “bouncing more GOODWILL things to the children” e.g. schools with space, retirees hearing reading etc,sponsor friends and family for school fees and needs and family to family or called”Child Direct” contacts and sponsors visits to coach their “child/children”and more…Seems Joh had Susie’s irresistible inspiration flowing too to give generously and freely to the children in need.

The Foundation Goodwill team of the “Child Direct” sponsors  came forth to sponsor many hundreds of school children then  in 2007 in Vanuatu as donors directly sent to the children schools where reliable contacts had been forged by Susie’s  new and old friend living there in Vanuatu.

Vanuatu is popular destination for retirees  from many various backgrounds, due to fine weather and natural environments. However many look for something to do good  in the quieter jungle life.  Soon many Foundation Goodwill helpers were delighted to  offer to assist the non -profit works as their skills suited. That was from 2007 -2016.

Next bounce?=A decision was made by them after the Cyclone Pam damages,  to open some Foundation Goodwill schools to help further  aid to the children  in Vanuatu with the serious need for education for the better future of Vanuatu and its precious children so eager to learn. Although Foundation Goodwill has sponsored many hundreds of Vanuatu children annually for a long time now, it was time to go further in support of Vanuatu  and John Tonner family offered  to donate-The first of  Five  Foundation Goodwill schools as planned to open in June 2016-and remainder by  December 2016-7. Thank you for your help.Contact John but be prepared to do all for free or John will not hear you as the children come first!.

Many tourists travel to Vanuatu and see the devastation from Cyclone Pam and return to their home communities and begin to gather aids for them to bring to the children with a passion for their education…. and the bouncing GOODWILL goes on.

 

(Susie passed away in Nov/2014 after a battle of many years with cancer, but the passion of Foundation Goodwill carries on for the children still have needs and we , the family and friends and sponsors and retirees, still need to help too. or bouncing GOODWILL makes it grow and “YOU cannot ever give it up for the children need you to bring more peace and GOODWILL for a better world future.”( Susie)

to be a GOODWILL star in the making”)

 

Foundation Goodwill Banner 2010

The Goodwill Foundation is a Not-For-Profit family  and friends run,  small organisation of christian education for peace.

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