The Willy Wagtail Project

Wahoo! We're proud to announce that WWP and Millennium Kids Inc have been recognised by Australia-ASEAN Council and Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as one of Australia & ASEAN’s TOP 20 SOCIAL ENTERPRISES and have been selected to participate in the Australia ASEAN CoLab 2020 run by Generate Worldwide!

The AACL is a digital leadership program for social entrepreneurs who are working to overcome the challenges created and amplified by COVID-19. Over the next 6 weeks, our Co-Founder Thea will take part in workshops, networking events and diplomatic roundtables where they will meet with politicians, business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, health professionals and diplomats.

In our first session we got to hear from Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australia-ASEAN Council's Dr Imran Lum and Dr Hsu Myat Mo. An exciting 6 weeks has just begun! Stay tuned as we embark on this amazing journey!

Find out more about the program here: https://www.australiaasean.com/

Youth-based disruption right here 🙌🙌🙌
So proud of our team.

Perth Mod students’ remarkable edible cutlery idea A group of Perth Modern School students have taken their war on plastic to the dinner table —creating a recipe for edible cutlery that they have begun producing at a commercial level.

🎉 Kicking off 2018 with a BANG!!! 🎉

Triple the yays for Bella, Hoang and Thea who’ve made it as finalists in the 2018 WA Young Achiever Awards!

Representing WWP and Millennium Kids Inc in 3 different categories: Environment & Sustainability, Leadership and Innovation 💚👏💡Now that’s what our young people are all about 👍

The W***y Wagtail Project was on stage at the 2017 WA Youth Awards this week. Co founders Shay and Bella were acknowledged as Finalists in the Sustainable Youth category.

Great work Team Wagtail.

So our gorgeous Co Founder Thea gets to go to Tanzania and meet up with TED members from around the world - can't wait to hear all the crazy, big ideas that come from that meeting of minds.

Greetings from #TEDGlobal

Hey Wagtail eco entrepreneurs - we got funding! Time to do the happy dance!

So many things you can do with waste!

Earlier this year some of The W***y Wagtail Project team visited Sri Lanka to check out the innovation happening with plastic. Amazing what you can do with coconut fibre and plastic packaging.

Amazing what a bunch of kids can do with textile waste! Thanks to our mentors for helping them today. The W***y Wagtail Project is alive and well.

1 week left to vote for the WA Young Achiever Awards~
If you haven't, give our WWP & MK heroes Bella and Thea a vote!
You can vote once per day :D

There is only 1 week to vote for your favourite finalist!
https://poll.fbapp.io/wayaa17
Voting closes 8 May
Catholic Education Western Australia

So much waste to landfill. The W***y Wagtail Project will run their next workshop in May creating beautiful products made from waste destined for landfill. Stay tuned!

Aussies send 85% of textiles to landfill | Textile Beat Australians buy an average of 27 kilograms of new textiles each year and then discard 23 kilograms into landfill – and two-thirds of those discards are manmade fibres that take decades to rot.