THANK YOU ! That’s the message we would like to reach the people who have already donated to our Help Save Oaktree campaign. We are now in the final days, and are asking everyone who hasn’t yet donated to consider gifting just $1. $1 to stand with young people. $1 to demand in youth led change. Donate now, via the link in our bio. With your $1, Oaktree can continue driving youth led development, supporting thousands of young changemakers, and inspiring global change. Donate today at www.oaktree.org #oaktree #helpsaveoaktree #youthled #youngpeople #youthleddevelopment
Oaktree
Non-profit Organizations
Melbourne, Victoria 5,640 followers
Young people striving to transform their local communities to build an equitable, just and sustainable world.
About us
Oaktree is an Australian-based youth-led organisation dedicated to empowering young people across the Asia-Pacific Region to transform their local communities. We believe in building an equitable, just, and sustainable world by resourcing youth-led initiatives, amplifying diverse youth voices, and shifting perceptions within the international development sector. Oaktree was founded in 2003 and is now established in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.
- Website
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http://www.oaktree.org
External link for Oaktree
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2003
- Specialties
- Movement building, International partnership, Social change generation, Fundraising, Youth participation, and Youth empowerment
Locations
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Primary
33 Lincoln Sq S
Melbourne, Victoria 3053, AU
Employees at Oaktree
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Timothy White
Food & Beverages, 20+ yr Purchasing Professional
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Mark Jones
Chairman at Cleardata Ltd,iAM Compliant Ltd & Enigma Legal Ltd.
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Suzanne Choudhury
Nursery Manager at Banana Moon Day Nurseries
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Andrew Millhouse
Commitee Member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (Tasmania) at Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Updates
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Why should you donate to save Oaktree? Hear from one of our partners about the impact of our international impact program, the OYSF! As part of the 2024 OYSF program, Conserve Indigenous Peoples Language Organisation supported 50 Indigenous students in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri Province with educational resources, prioritising girls and those facing financial hardship. Through vocational training in hairdressing and café management, CIPL also supported the creation of Indigenous-owned microenterprises, building long-term community resilience and economic independence. Without the OYSF, youth-led community programs are at risk of loosing critical untied funding that allow them to help thousands of young people. Donate today and help us continue to create impact for thousands more. Donate direct @ www.oaktree.org #helpsaveoaktree #youthled #youthledchange #donatenow #youthledorganisation #youthledchange #internationaldevelopment #asiapacific #impact
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Oaktree needs your help. For 20 years, we’ve backed young people leading change, from climate action in Timor-Leste to mental health support in Laos. But now, we’re facing a crisis of our own. Our flagship fundraiser, Live Below the Line, once raised over $1 million a year. Last year, it raised just $6,000. Despite our best efforts to diversify our income, we have not been able to fill this gap. Now, we have just 10 weeks to raise $200,000 to survive. So we are calling on you, our supporters, to donate just $1 each. If 200,000 of you gave just $1, we could keep creating youth-led change! Will you donate $1 to help us stay alive? Donate now @ https://www.oaktree.org/ If you cant donate, share this message with your networks and keep the momentum going! #HelpSaveOaktree #Oaktree #OaktreeFoundation #Donate1Dollar #YouthPower #LiveBelowTheLine #SupportYouth #YouthLedChange #GlobalSolidarity #GiveForGood #YoungLeaders #BackYoungPeople #DecoloniseAid #youthled #youngpeople #internationaldevelopment #AsiaPacific #donate
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Its that time again! Dive into Oaktrees 2024 Annual Report and Financial Statements... if thats your thing, of course. And if not, here is a quick summary of our impact! To read the full report, head straight to https://lnkd.in/g7KtKw4z #youthleddevelopment #oaktree #oaktreesolidarity #youthsolidarity #internationaldevelopment #development #impact #annualreport
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🌱 Welcoming Girls United for Human Rights (GUHR) to the 2025 Oaktree Youth Solidarity Fund! 🌱 Based in Pakistan and led entirely by girls aged 15–25, GUHR empowers girls and transgender youth in conflict-affected regions. Founded by Hadiqa Bashir, a survivor of early and forced marriage, the organisation tackles harmful practices such as child marriage and gender-based violence while advancing education, reproductive rights, and climate justice. With support from OYSF in 2025, GUHR will expand its impact through leadership training, advocacy, and community-based action. They’ll deliver 30 STEM and SRHR sessions, train 50 youth in policy engagement, and lead a tree plantation campaign involving 200 girls. Their efforts aim to shift national legislation and ensure youth voices lead the way in building a more just future. We feel incredibly privileged to support their work! #OYSF2025 #GirlsLead #YouthAdvocacy #ClimateJustice #Pakistan #GUHR #OaktreeSolidarity #youthled #youthleddevelopment #internationaldevelopment
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📚 Welcoming Canopy Nepal to the 2025 Youth Solidarity Fund! 📚 Canopy Nepal is a youth-led organisation tackling systemic inequality in Nepal’s education system, where only 27% of students complete upper secondary school. Founded by young people who experienced these barriers themselves, they support marginalised students through long-term scholarships, mentorship, and interactive, storytelling-based learning that fosters creativity and critical thinking. In 2025, Canopy Nepal will expand its impact by training young facilitators in student-centred teaching methods, making education more engaging, personalised, and inclusive. By empowering both learners and young educators, they are reimagining what a just and equitable education system can look like. We are so excited to work with this organisation as part of the OYSF! #OYSF2025 #YouthLedChange #EducationForAll #Nepal #OaktreeSolidarity #CanopyNepal #Youthsolidarity #youngpeople #internationaldevelopment #youthleddevelopment
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🌟 Introducing Parindey as a 2025 Youth Solidarity Fund partner! 🌟 Parindey is a youth-led organisation in Pakistan working to counter violent extremism through peacebuilding, mental health advocacy, and gender programs. Using arts and culture as tools for healing, their trauma-informed, intersectional approach promotes expression, resilience, and social cohesion. Led entirely by young professionals under 35, Parindey co-designs programs with youth to reflect lived realities and local needs, from public art and storytelling to theatre for dialogue and mental health first aid. In 2025, they will expand youth leadership and advocacy, helping young people create safe spaces, resist harmful narratives, and push for mental health reforms that reflect grassroots voices. #OYSF2025 #YouthLedChange #Peacebuilding #MentalHealthMatters #Pakistan #OaktreeSolidarity #Parindey #youthsolidarity #youthled #youngpeople #youthleddevelopment #internationaldevelopment
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📢 Introducing another incredible 2025 Youth Solidarity Fund partner: Fun Play Learn from Nepal 🇳🇵🎉 This youth-led initiative is changing the way children experience education by turning classrooms into vibrant spaces of curiosity and critical thinking through play-based learning. Since 2022, they’ve reached over 20,000 children in 200 schools using low-cost, culturally relevant games to make learning joyful and engaging, especially in STEM. In 2025, they’ll deepen their impact by training teachers to embed these student-centered methods into everyday teaching so the benefits continue well beyond the program. We’re proud to support their mission to make learning fun and transformative. 💛 #OYSF2025 #YouthLedChange #PlayBasedLearning #Nepal #STEMEducation #OaktreeSolidarity #youthleddevelopment #internationaldevelopment
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📣 Meet one of Oaktree’s 2025 Youth Solidarity Fund partners: Adolescent & Youth Group 💪🏽🌏 Led by adolescent girls, young women, and girls with disabilities, this powerful collective is tackling the gaps in education and representation head on. Through a girl-led approach, they’ll develop an educational toolkit on critical yet often overlooked topics including gender based violence, reproductive health, digital literacy, and climate justice. They’ll also train youth in research, advocacy, and policy engagement, equipping them to lead evidence based campaigns and amplify their voices in national and global decision making spaces. We’re proud to support their bold vision. 💛 #OYSF2025 #GirlsLead #YouthSolidarity #DisabilityInclusion #GenderJustice #OaktreeSolidarity #Youthleddevelopment #youngpeople #oaktree #internationaldevelopment #solidarity
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Oaktree Alumni Jessie still making incredible change in the lives of young people across the Asia Pacific!
After spending the first few months of this year traversing through the beautiful lands of Southeast Asia, I am very excited to have started an internship as a Youth Animator at Kampuchea Action to Promote Education (KAPE) in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. During my time volunteering at Oaktree in 2021, I worked alongside the KAPE team on the KYLA project, supporting youth leadership initiatives across Cambodia. Now in 2025, I am fortunate enough to work in Cambodia with the same young people. It feels extra special to be running youth programs in my home country, an aspiration I’ve had for a long time. I’m very thankful for this opportunity to work on community development projects in Cambodia while deepening my connection to the land and people of srok khmer. 🇰🇭
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