Welcome to QSA
Quaker Service Australia (QSA) is the service and overseas aid organisation of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia.
Our New Website
Welcome to the new QSA website! Some good ideas take longer to achieve than you imagine, but if it’s a good idea, it’s worth the wait to get it right. Well we hope we have got it right for you – please let QSA know if you are having difficulties in navigating this website and we will try to make even more user friendly. We intend to have a mixture of information about our project work as well as information about the organisation itself, and links where you can find out more about Quakers, other development agents and some of the issues about development. Come on in and have a look.
QSA turns 50 in 2009
To celebrate this occasion, Heather Saville has been interviewing people who have worked with QSA and its project partners over the years and is writing a book encompassing these interviews with photographs and other material. We hope to have the book launch in March 2009. It is difficult to select what material to include in such a book, as space and time dictate that not everything can be included to the same level of detail. In the introductionn Heather has written
'Not everything that QSA has undertaken is covered; this is in part for reasons of sheer volume, but also because of the desire to see if there was a thread that could be discerned through the major projects. Did our Quaker beliefs and practice affect the way in which we approached development? How did we learn from our own efforts if at all? How has our approach differed from or been in line with what might be termed 'current development theory'? Were there times when we comprehensively 'got it wrong' and if and when these times occured how did we manage?'
Keep checking this space for more snippets from the book, and details of the book launch.