Our Story
Our Lifestyle Brands head office is on the lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We wish to acknowledge and pay respect to the past, present and future Traditional Owners of this land and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and education practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
About Us
UR1 International is an Australian-based company that designs, markets and distributes an innovative range of unique and conventional photo albums and photo frames throughout the world. Since its inception in 1983, UR1 has become Australia’s leading distributor of frames and albums, focusing its activities on innovating, marketing and distributing quality products.
Known as “the innovators, not the imitators”, the UR1 marketing team develops numerous products and ranges every year.
We believe that keeping and displaying memories is extremely important and that every customer is different which is why we continue to offer a diverse range of frames and albums for our customers to choose from.
Our extensive frame range includes materials such as wood, pewter, aluminium, zinc, glass, acrylic and poly resin, just to name a few. The wide range of albums we offer include baby, home decor, trend, and special occasion in many different photo capacities and styles.
UR1 supplies independent photo stores, supermarkets, mass merchants, speciality retailers and department stores, both in Australia and overseas. We are fully integrated to conceptualize, design, source, distribute and visually present our products through all retail channels.
Our aim is to provide a unique, innovative and diverse range of quality products for customers to store and display their precious memories for a lifetime.
Charity
Founded in 2011 by the Palti family from Melbourne, Australia, the Cambodia Rural Students Trust (CRST) is a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) registered with the Cambodian Interior Ministry. Our NGO sponsors our students’ education, health and dental care, life-skill courses and monthly living allowances. Being sponsored to study also means being part of the NGO family, a support system and hands-on learning experience in itself.
This unique NGO currently sponsors the high school and university education of 104 bright students from poor rural families. CRST is unique for two key reasons – firstly there are zero overheads, so every dollar in donations is used for education and community projects; secondly, CRST is managed entirely by the students of the NGO, who receive daily mentoring on managing an organisation. Additionally, all our students volunteer regularly in the community – essentially they are taught that they are Cambodia’s future leaders and they can start helping society now, they don’t have to wait until they graduate and earn money.
The CRST students also lead and manage several educational social enterprise projects, each focused on social challenges in rural Cambodia and designed to support and empower rural students and communities –
Project B – Bicycles for Education, provides bicycles to students who walk long distances to school each day. The Mobile Bike Mechanic program also repairs hundreds of bicycles for rural students annually.
Project G – Empowering Girls, educates high school students about the reproductive system and distributes reusable feminine hygiene Kits to rural high school girls.
Project L – Light for Education, provides solar study lights and study supplies to remote rural students living in energy poverty.
Project T – Trees for Life, is planting thousands of trees around Siem Reap
Project V – The Volunteer Experience, provides overseas guests with a hands-on, sustainable volunteer experiences.
Project W – WASH for Education, installs clean drinking water, toilets and rubbish incinerators in rural schools, accompanied by WASH educational workshops.
Students are also mentored as they manage several projects and enterprises – all designed to give them hands-on business, leadership and management skills. These projects include a frozen-yogurt store and projects focused on empowering girls, the environment and hosting foreign volunteers. For more information, please visit https://www.cambodiaruralstudentstrust.org
The Cambodia Rural Students Foundation is an Australian Government registered Tax Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and the Cambodia Rural Students Foundation Inc is a US Government registered public charity under IRS code section 501(c)(c3).
