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01.18.2012 in by Kimina
Hire me (I'm free!) as a guest speaker to a function or event to talk about my life-changing experiences in the tsunami and what I have learned about love, life and paying attention. The proceeds of any books sold on the night will be 100% donated...
03.15.2011 in by admin
For a long time JP has wondered out loud that the Boxing Day quake had shaken up the earth so much it was causing all the other quakes around the region. Tonight, the ABC's 7.30 program interviewed Professor Kerry Sieh, a seismologist with the Cal...
11.27.2010 in by Kimina
I wrote part of my book on Golden Buddha Beach, bizarrely feeling safer and stronger returning to the island rather than in the strangely foreign world of Melbourne. At the time, there were hardly any people living at the resort, as it was still only...
Tags: donate, journalists, tsunami
01.2.2010 in by Kimina
It is with sadness that I report the closure of my "everyday hero" page through the Red Cross as they have closed their Pacific Tsunami appeal. I fell a long way short of my fundraising goal. Lessons learned: a. you really have to put HEAPS of time i...
11.25.2009 in by Kimina
I have been stunned by the news that around 37 journalists have been killed in the Philippines while they were doing their job - following a political candidate's ambitions to run for Mayor. In the Philippines politics is so often linked with violenc...
Tags: death, journalists, Philippines, press freedom
10.12.2009 in by Kimina
I'm back in Bangkok for a fellowship on journalism and trauma for journalists across Australia, as part of the Dart Centre for journalism and trauma. It starts tomorrow so I haven't met the fellows yet but it feels timely what with Samoa, Philippines...
10.6.2009 in by Kimina
Today Crikey.com.au's health blog, croakey, posted an item about me and my campaign to raise $15,000. See here (or look at my links section)! http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2009/10/06/yesterdays-news-a-tsunami-survivor-asks-for-help-for-samoa/ T...
10.6.2009 in by Kimina
JP sent out a twitter today about my campaign to raise money for the people of Samoa and someone wrote back that this idea might be spam. I admit I was a little surprised, but it did get me thinking that people might not trust that I mean what I say....
10.4.2009 in by Kimina
I put a little YouTube video explaining my decision to donate 100% of the proceeds of the sale of my book to the survivors of the Samoan tsunami. Someone from Samoa has posted a comment saying: "thank you for helping my people." I really want to do t...
Journalist Kimina Lyall was thrust into the biggest story of her career and became part of the story she was writing about. Her experience is at heart a universal one: surviving sudden change.
