Aussie Helpers train disadvantaged youths as Farmers
The reason I wrote my book How To Overcome Stress Naturally was because a friend was suffering severe depression and I could see and feel the pain her family was going through. This was in a small country town.
So often rural communities don’t have access to resources they need, nor the people they need.
Aussie Helpers to train disadvantaged youths as farmers…
On a small farm in Mathoura, between Deniliquin and Echuca, New South Wales, Aussie Helpers is in the process of setting up ‘Glenvale’, a ‘training farm’ for 
disadvantaged and/or homeless young men and women. The program’s aim is to provide six months of on-farm training for these young people, after which they will be equipped with skills to go onto full time paid employment in the rural work force.
Aussie Helpers is a 40-strong not-for-profit that has been operating in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania since 2002. With a goal of helping to fight poverty in the bush, it aims to build and strengthen families in the bush, farming communities, country people and country towns through counselling, visits, excursions, human food and stock feed.
Founder Brian Egan, says “The beneficiaries of Aussie Helpers activities are genuine people who are going through really tough times.
“Aussie Helpers impact on the people and places that we connect with and is fully verified by the hundreds of letters we receive each year from farming families assisted by Aussie Helpers. Once these farmers get back on their feet the flow-on will benefit the rural communities and country towns.”
You can read Brian Egan’s inspiring story of his journey back from depression to the creation of Aussie Helpers…Chapter 7 in How To Overcome Stress Naturally, with a foreword by HH The Dalai Lama.
10% of Sales of my book are donated to
Aussie Helpers
Excerpt from Chapter 7. I asked Brian…
When you feel panicked or stressed these days what do you do?
I don’t get stressed about anything anymore. I don’t even worry anymore. I don’t know why it’s happened. People say you must get burned out, or how do you debrief yourself after talking to so many people? I just don’t ever need to do it.
· I don’t keep things in, for one thing.
· I just let it slide through, and off to see the next one.
· I don’t dwell on things.
The one thing I think about most of all is
“What more can we do to help these people?”
Brian is truly an inspiration for all of us. Indeed “What more can I do to help others” I find myself asking as each day goes by. My book is a result of me wanting to help more people beyond my family and friends and I too continually ask myself “What more can I do to help others”
When you ask you can be quite surprised sometimes the ideas that come to help not only others but also yourself to be less stressed, less frustrated, less annoyed, less lonely.
Together we truly can make a difference!
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