Who we are
About the foundation
The Oceania Australia Foundation is a not-for-profit, non-political organisation working to advance health standards in disadvantaged communities across the Oceania region, with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands.
Its partnership with the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) rests on its broad offering of educational programmes promoting health and well-being via participation in physical activity, specifically targeting obesity, diabetes and heart disease and its educational courses in sports coaching. It also provides sports and academic scholarships for overseas study to promising young leaders, an important avenue for personal and professional development for young athletes from the Pacific Small Island Developing States (Pacific SIDS).
It educates communities in basic physiology and the range of health benefits that result from physical activity, provides a combination of sports and academic scholarships to overseas universities, and promotes leadership and social engagement in communities.
One of the most important approaches it uses is through its encouragement of gender diversity at leadership level in communities and its general enhancement of community spirit and cohesion in disadvantaged communities through people’s participation in sporting activities.
The Oceania Australia Foundation is based in Melbourne, Australia
What we do
Achieving the following
- advancing health standards in disadvantaged communities across the Oceania region, with a particular focus on the Pacific Islands;
- educating disadvantaged communities in basic physiology and the range of health benefits that result from physical activity;
- educating young people from such disadvantaged communities, including by way of scholarships to overseas universities;
- the promotion of leadership and social engagement in the community;
- encouraging gender diversity at a leadership level in the community; and
- the general enhancement of community spirit and cohesion in disadvantaged communities.
Securing our objectives
- offering educational programmes promoting health and well-being via participation in physical activity, specifically targeting obesity, diabetes and heart disease;
- offering educational courses in sports coaching;
- providing scholarships for overseas study to promising young leaders;
- helping young people to develop leadership skills and community spirit including by providing them with opportunities to participate in sporting activities; and
- seeking funding or donations through fundraising events and engagement with State and Commonwealth governments in Australia.
Board and Management