Study 'n Volunteer Australia

07/06/2022

A Working Holiday Visa is an option for you to work, travel and study at the same time! 👍

For those of you who are wanting to but at the same time want to earn money, this visa is for YOU!
Especially in Cairns and North Queensland, there are lots of jobs to choose from 🐠💕

Here is a website about different places where you can live in Queensland while you are on Working Holiday Visa 👇
https://www.queensland.com/us/en/things-to-do/traveller/solo/working-holiday-in-queensland/best-places-to-live-in-queensland-for-working-holiday-makers

Depending on the lifestyle you would like, there are so many places to live in !
Where would you like to work and play in Queensland?

Contact our team for working holiday packages including introduction to REAL jobs in Cairns!

05/06/2022

Today is World Environment Day!

This year’s campaign is ☝️🌎
We are all living on the same planet, and we are responsible for taking care of this earth. There are countless actions you can take to be sustainable.
Here are some of the things you can start doing TODAY!

🌎 Join volunteering activities, such as planting trees, beach cleaning, etc. 🌱
🌎 Recycle and reuse! Start using reusable bottles
🌎 Bring reusable bags when shopping
🌎 Minimise the use of electricity and water

There are so many other ways you can be sustainable.
Let us know what you are doing or will be doing to save the planet! 👍

24/05/2022

Yeserday was World Turtle Day! 🐢

As you may know, our team at Banora International Group are very passionate about saving the turtles.
We have been donating to Turtle Rehabilitation Centre On Fitzroy Island for many years and we love getting involved with turtle rescue 🥰

Great Barrier Reef is well known as a habitat for turtles. Six of the world’s seven turtle species can be found on the magnificent GBR!
As our head office is located on the GBR, we feel responsible for taking action to save and protect them.

Our programs Study Buddy Bot have taught many students ways of how they can look after the reef and help save our turtles and of course we are massive fans of Molly Steer (Straw No More) 🤩👍

What will you do to make a change?

17/05/2022

This week is National Volunteer Week! 🤩

The theme for this year’s National Volunteer Week is “Better Together”. Volunteering brings people together and creates a better environment and community. This week is to celebrate and appreciate all the volunteers 👏

The campaign is “Wave your Appreciation for Volunteers”. You can show your appreciation for volunteers by taking a photo of you with a smiley face on your hand, and post it on social media tagging and

Let’s all celebrate this wonderful week!! 👍

https://youtu.be/mW-gr8IC22E

You are invited to put your hand up and thank the millions of volunteers around Australia. How will you wave your appreciation for volunteers?You can wave yo...

29/04/2022

It has been 12 months since we delivered our 5 day course online.
Part of the program was for all students to have a tree planted in their name. Over the weekend we revisited the site of the plants. Look how much they have grown!! 🌱

22/04/2022

This year’s Earth Day theme is “Invest In Our Planet” 🌎

We are all living in the same , and we should consider how we treat our planet for the future.
This year, think about what you can do to preserve the environment and to become more sustainable.
If you think you haven’t done anything recently, today is the day to rethink and START! 👍

What will you do this year for the Earth Day? Let’s all invest in our planet! 🤩

https://youtu.be/oYFc4O6Sg_Q

05/04/2022

We received an email from our former Claire!

“It’s been a while since I have seen you and I just wanted to inform you that I have received a job.
I want to thank you Janine, for the opportunity you gave me and for being a referee of mine.
My experiences at Banora were wonderful and I wish you, the others and your company the absolute best and thank you for being a blessing in my life.”

Thank you for the wonderful message!
Claire helped us out in many of our virtual programs, administration in the office, strategic research and we are happy to hear she gained worthwhile experiences with us.

03/03/2022

Happy World Wildlife Day!!

Every year on 3rd of March is the World Wildlife Day. This year’s theme is "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration".

As many people are aware, there any many key species in Australia and some of them are unfortunately endangered 😔
Let’s all think about what we can do to save these species and to restore the ecosystem. 🌱

Watch the official outreach video for the 2022 World Wildlife Day Celebration on the theme of "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration". The theme s...

18/02/2022

Meet our volunteer superstar! 🌱

Meet the Team!

This is our Manager, Junko Godwin 🥰
At our core, our whole team are passionate about our region, the environment and our community and covid has allowed us extra opportunities to volunteer and give back. Junko is a volunteer superstar! 💪

Last weekend she joined the w**d identification event at Redlynch organised by Treeforce Cairns. On the same day, she participated in tree planting at Holloways Beach hosted by Holloways Beach Coastcare! The group planted 400 trees in total 🌱 What an amazing achievement!! 🥳

Go Junko!! 👏

11/02/2022

Look at how beautiful and remarkable sea turtles are! 🐢💕

Do you know why sea turtles are important in this world? 🤔
There is more to admire than their beauty and cuteness factor!

🐢 Sea turtles play a significant role in balancing our marine ecosystem
🐢 Their eggs help to provide nutrients to the sand and keep the beach healthy
🐢 They help keep the coral reef ecosystem healthy and productive

So, let’s all make smarter choices to save sea turtles!!


https://fb.watch/b2RBCNlweH/

03/02/2022

It’s a new year and here is another year of being sustainable! ♻

What are your goals this year in terms of staying sustainable?
Please let us know in the comments!

For those of you who are still deciding on what you can do, how about tree planting? There are lots of organisations where you can volunteer to plant trees 🌱

Did you know that we plant trees with our students virtually?

27/01/2022

Tomorrow, Friday 28th of January, it is Use Your Own Cup Day! ☕️

Did you know that in Australia, almost 2.7 million single use cups are thrown out in a single day?! 😢

Blackbird Warehouse are promoting “100% reusable cup only day” tomorrow!

Join this movement by using your own reusable cup this week 🤩♻️

Plastic Free Cairns and Douglas

22/12/2021

Creating life-changing experiences is what we do!! 😆

This is not only for study tours, but also with our volunteer and internship programs!

Observing students having a profound experience volunteering at local organisations is extremely rewarding to our team.
We partner with local charities to help our international students gain these skills, providing them with a unique experience, only found in Australia such as caring for Australian native animals!
Students gain the added benefit of learning about Australian culture, on the job. 😊

16/12/2021

A lot of people may think that is just doing work.
But our volunteer programs include some fun activities as well! 😁

For our animal volunteer at Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre at Fitzroy Island Resort, Queensland, students get to go in the water and do snorkelling or experience the glass bottom boat! During this time, they take down details of the marine life they see and collate it later in the “Eye on the reef” data. This helps contribute to the long-term protection of the Great Barrier Reef 🐠

Students are helping the but in such an incredible location, with fun activities included, students remember the experience with exuberance. 😊💕

10/12/2021

We held a lecture to Japanese students the other day and we asked this question to them:

“Imagine a plastic bag floating on the ocean, what do you think it looks like?”

Can you answer this question? 🤔

Does it look like seaw**d? Or does it look something like a living animal in the water?
The answer is jellyfish! Sea turtles think they are jellyfish and try to eat them 🐢 It is very sad to see turtles eating plastic bags and suffering… 😢
The main thing we can all do is to simply not litter!

Let us know ONE thing you would do to be more sustainable! ☝️

03/12/2021

Since the beginning of September, Queensland Government has banned the use of single-use plastics 🚫 We have been seeing many cafes and restaurants implementing reusable takeaway containers and customers bringing their own bottles and cups 😊✨

Here is an encouraging quote from 1 Million Women:

“If we all switched to reusable cups, we would divert 500 BILLION takeaway coffee cups from landfill every year.”

Let’s all try our best to carry around reusable cups and bottles!!

24/11/2021

Tree planting is one of our important activities.

There is a quote:
“Imagine if trees gave off Wi-Fi signals, we would be planting so many trees and we'd probably save the planet too. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe.”

Do you agree with this quote? 🤔 Let me know in the comments!

21/10/2021

One big part about participating in animal volunteering is feeding them! 🤩
Students can experience preparing food by cutting fruits and vegetables and at the same time they can learn about animals’ diets 👍
While they are chopping the food, they now know which wildlife animals eat which food and they can also feed them as well!

This is why animal volunteering is one of the most popular volunteer activities 😊

Cairns ZOOM

18/10/2021

Let’s make Cairns a more sustainable place 🤩

See what Cairns Regional Council and other communities are doing to help Cairns improve its environment!
Our community value the many natural sites within our region, from the world heritage rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef and put in a great amount of effort into protecting these places!
Check out the video below to find out some actions that you can take today!

12/10/2021

Do you know what the students are holding? 🤔

A lot of our Japanese international students don’t know about this fruit.
This is called a Cherimoya, but because if its creamy texture it’s well-known for its second name, Custard Apple. They are a sub-tropical fruit that is native to South America.
Custard apples are grown in regions from Atherton Tablelands in Tropical North Queensland, all the way down to Lismore, New South Wales.
They are very creamy and sweet, and are commonly eaten fresh and chilled. 😋

Please let us know how you like to eat custard apples 👍

06/10/2021

The other day, one of our staff joined the tree planting volunteer with Treeforce Cairns 🌱

The location was at Goomboora Park along the Freshwater Creek and the mission of the day was to complete planting 220 trees! It took a little less than 2 hours to finish planting 220 trees! What an accomplishment! 😆

Our team loves to do volunteering and we encourage people to do it as well! Engaging with the community and being sustainable, benefits our region both socially and environmentally 👍

01/10/2021

So fascinating!! 🤩

Did you know that a huge 400-year-old coral was found on the Great Barrier Reef?! 😲
It was found off the coast of Orpheus Island, and researchers have said that it is one of the oldest and the widest coral on the Great Barrier Reef.

The coral is 5.3m tall and 10.4m wide! The coral makes it 2.4m wider than the widest coral found in the Great Barrier Reef previously.
Corals are in fact living species and are growing. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system and we are lucky to be able to live so close to them, and discover this intriguing coral nearby!

Rare 400-year-old coral discovered on Great Barrier ReefBy The Conversation4:11pm Aug 20, 2021 Tweet Facebook Mail Snorkellers on the Great Barrier Reef have discovered a huge coral more than 400-years-old which is thought to have survived 80 major cyclones, numerous coral bleaching events and centu...

28/09/2021

Volunteering is not just about wildlife care and tree planting. There are so many ways of volunteering!

One is beach clean up. To maintain the beautiful beaches that we have here in Cairns, it is important to get rid of the rubbish. Unfortunately, there is a lot of rubbish on the beach and marine animals can mistake some rubbish like plastic bags for their food 😢 It can look like a jelly fish and then gets stuck in their intestines! To prevent this from happening, it is important for people to not litter in the first place but if there is rubbish it is important to clean it up!

If you are out at the beach, please do not litter!

Check out ReefClean if you would like to join clean up activities!

23/09/2021

Because of the ban of the single-use plastics in Queensland, many of the businesses have been left with their unused single-use plastics.
Before throwing them away, please consider recycling them! 👍

The Great Plastic Rescue is an organisation to save and rescue the single-use plastic that are no longer in use.
They can be transformed and have another life.

“In partnership with Queensland not-for-profits, logistics experts, recycling gurus and award winning advanced manufactures; we’ll give your clean, unused plastic waste a second life.” – The Great Plastic Rescue

Why not join the community and save the single-use plastics!✨

https://www.thegreatplasticrescue.com.au/

Let’s give clean, unused single-use plastic a new life. JOIN THE RESCUE    The Great Plastic Rescue is on a mission to work with Queensland businesses, not-for-profits, schools (or any other organisations) to give clean, unused single-plastics a new life. If you’ve got any of the below, we’l...

17/09/2021

Last week, we organised a virtual marine biology program for Japanese students. It was a live sea turtle lecture and behind the scenes tour of the JCU: James Cook University, Australia aquarium with Jennie Gilbert! 🤩

Jennie Gilbert is a well-know marine biologist and rescues and helps injured sea turtles. We have worked closely with Jennie as a co-founder of Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre and are a sponsor for the centre 🐢 In the past, our international students and staff have both volunteered at Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre. ✨ We all enjoy volunteering there and learning more about sea turtles and what we can do to save them.
She is very knowledgeable, and students love to learn from her! 😍

We love volunteering and will be documenting more of our experiences!

09/09/2021

Last week was our intern Michael’s last day 😢
He has written us a testimonial, and here it is:

“My name is Michael Kitto and I have just completed an internship with Banora International Group, the parent company of Study n’ Volunteer Australia. I am very appreciative of all that I have learned in my time with the company, I got to get out of my comfort zone and take a big step towards my future thanks to the experiences that I have gained during my internship. I got an amazing opportunity to work with students from all over Japan, teaching them interesting things about Australia and its wonderful customs and wildlife. I am grateful for the opportunities I was afforded and thankful for the help I was given by the other employees of the business.”

Thank you, Michael, for your hard work! 🤩👏

01/09/2021

From today, Queensland Government has banned all single-use plastics! 👍
Single-use plastics such as straws, cutleries, plates, cups and containers are banned in Queensland!

🤔 Do you use single-use plastics?
🤔 Does your city allow businesses to use them?

Did you know that single-use plastics do not naturally break down in the environment…? They take hundreds of years to break down, and they are harmful to the environment 😢

This law applies to all Queensland businesses, but as an individual, we can contribute to a better environment! ✨
Let’s all try to stop using single-use plastics and make the world a nicer place 😊 Yay, Queensland has moved one step close to being more sustainable.

https://qldplasticsban.com.au/

From 1 September, some single-use plastic items are banned in Queensland. Find out what’s banned.

05/08/2021

For our second week of Summer Camp 2021 – LIVE!!, we had over 15 people joining “Introduction to SDGs” event 😍

Thank you to those who came along, and we hope everyone learned more about SDGs!

Many of the students who participated were enthusiastic and told us that they would like to make some changes from now on 👍 These included not buying plastic single use water bottles and taking their own bags to the supermarkets! Every person can make a difference.

It is important for people to be aware and be educated about sustainability and it was nice for us to realise that many of the young students around the world are conscious of the environment ✨