Our girl Pranishka and her friends are the coordinators and creators of www.weneedbooks.org, which collects books and toys for a school in Nepal.
The Big Bangs were proud to join in, donating over 500 books and 100′s of toys!
Our congratulations to Prani and the team.  Thank you for letting us be a part of it!

It’s been 2 years since we started this thing, this living, breathing, beautiful monster of an organisation. We’ve gone from the mud soaked slums of downtown Dhaka to the marble halls of the Australian Parliament. We have spread our programs and our people from one continent to the next, spread the word from one mouth to another, and taken our passion and our pride to courts all around the world.
It has felt as if the last 6 months have been blurring by at an increasing pace; the media coverage, the …

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BIG BANGS LAUNCH FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR NOMINEE PIERRE JOHANNESSEN AND THE BIG BANGS ARE LAUNCHING A MONTH-LONG CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FUNDS FOR BOTH LOCAL AND OVERSEAS PROGRAMS
Wednesday 19 July 2009
The BIG BANG BALLERS, an international NGO founded by former Australian Youth
Ambassador for Development and current Young Australian of the Year Nominee Pierre Johannessen, are today launching their national campaign to raise $11,000 by 11 September.
The BIG BANGS is an international NGO, using the game of basketball to tackle youth poverty and social disadvantage.
Having originated in Bangladesh …

Together we can
Who would have thought that a simple request for help would lead to the collection and delivery of over 500 books and hundreds of toys? The Big Bangs knew. Coming together to pack boxes upon boxes of books and toys one early Sunday morning, the Big Bangs’ donation to be sent to a school in the remote village of Ramechhap in Nepal, is yet another testament that a spark can trigger so much.
Loading the mountain of boxes into the car, the buzz of excitement was alight for we …

The following is a message from Pranishka, co-ordinator for the School’s appeal for donations:
Firstly my heartfelt thanks to you and the BIG BANG crew!! Wow! I’m totally in awe of your generosity
The power of kindness is so amazing, touching and inspirational!
The village is called Ramechhap.
Its a remote and mountainous district approximately 200km from Kathmandu..
The indigenous communities that make up this region are split to be about 60% Tamang , 30% Magar. and 10% other.
The villagers are extremely poor and underprivileged. This is a farming region where the people live …

It’s Sunday morning and we’re packing toys and books for orphanages in Nepal and India. While not many people get to say those words it represents what the spirit of Big(STAR)Bangs is all about.
As part of a book-drive on Sunday to help a fellow humanitarian, Big(STAR)Bangs Australia managed to help source over 500 children books and text books in less than 24hrs, and if postage will allow, two full sets of encyclopaedias. While we are so grateful for the 500+ books, let me say this; you have never seen more …