G’day thanks for visiting about us.
What are we? Well, someone described us once as a ‘fusion; art, music, media, band for Charity’
Our purpose is to create awareness about the inconceivable suffering of many millions of humans (especially children that neither deserve nor can change their conditions) due to poor economic situations around the world; who it is that really suffers; and what a huge difference a small effort on our part can make!
We would like to think that we are part of a new popular culture of the west, ‘the 21st century conscience’. We hope to stimulate you visually, move you emotionally, provoke you artistically, sooth you audibly and motivate you to action with an awareness that will create for you what it has for us: a deep sense of gratitude for our fortunate conditions and a sense of purpose through service.
We believe that poverty can end!
The band is a cross section of fortunate Australians with a strong sense of gratitude for the benefits we enjoy in a prosperous country such as ours. We recognise our circumstance and conditions as among the best in the world and feel a deep sense of debt and a calling to serve the less fortunate. We are a mix of professionals and students with careers and futures in the world, and a belief in an ideal: that we can make a difference to the poor/starving/orphaned children of the world.
The band is: Rob Findlay (I.T. specialist) lead guitar, production and arrangement; Pat Cullen (journalism student) bass and part time radio announcer; Emily Minchin (classical music student) viola; Glen Scholes (self employed manager of his cleaning business) drums; and me,
“I believe every child on earth deserves the opportunity to rise out of incomprehensible conditions [such as poverty and abuse]. In
If you feel you want to join us on the path you can:
Yours in Service
Posted 12 Jan 08
Dear Friends
I would like to invite you to a special night taking place on the 22nd of March at the Fly by Night Club in Fremantle.
Our band ‘Damien Thornber and the Orphans’ will be hosting a Fusion; Music, Media and Art gig for CHARITY!
It will also be the CD launch for our debut album ‘VOW of POVERTY’ aptly named as we are donating all the funds raised from this CD directly to ‘VOW International Services Inc' (that’s right 100%) a licensed charity who’s vision is to fund education for poor/orphaned children in third world counties.We are approaching you today for support and are asking for small contributions from local business and community. In return for you donation to VOW we will send you out tickets to the gig and add your logo to the posters, web sites and promotional material associated with the project.
The aim of the night is to raise $10,000 towards developing the first Bio-Latrine in Indonesia; these centres have been used in China and India for hundreds of years to convert animal waste into a clean fuel sources for heating, cooking and energy and liquid fertilizers for use in farming. But after innovative trials in Africa they are now been utilised for human waste in Nairobi, Kenya. These constructions can be built from local material are environmentally friendly, have no mechanical parts and are easy to maintain. With the help of an engineer the community can be taught to build them and once they have the technology can replicate them at will. The by-products of a bio-facility can be used to fund curriculum and teacher's employment and the structure can easily be adapted to class rooms with ablution blocks. This provides two solutions in one.
Listed below are all our details, the mission statement of VOW and plenty of photos, videos and music and more information about us and our goals. We hope you have a minute to read, listen and enjoy our work which aims at inspiring compassion and creating awareness.
Yours in Service
Damien Thornber
VOW International Services Inc’
Chairman/Founder
Mb 0417 697 900
Email me@damienthornber.com
Web www.vow.org.au