Victorian of the Year

Today, I came across this article which was "Victorian of the Year". This award is given to a person who gives to the community and public service and resides in Victoria. Additionally, there is also the Young Victorian of the Year award which is open to people who are under 35. This year, it was awarded to Moira Kelly.

Moira Kelly may be a familiar name to some of you but if you are not familiar with her, she is a humanitarian who worked with Aboriginal children in Western Australia at the age of 20 before going on to work with Mother Teresa in Calcutta for a couple of years.

Other humanitarian work she has done includes working with AIDS sufferers in both Australia and in Botswana with the Kalahari bushmen, assisting ill individuals in Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Johannesburg, the Bronx and Albania as well as setting up refugee camps, soup kitchens, dental clinics and schools.

She is also the legal guardian of the once cojoined twins Trishna and Krishna as well as former X factor contestant Emmanuel Kelly and his brother Ahmed Mustafa.

If you would like to learn more about Moira Kelly, you can visit her website which is the Children First foundation.

http://www.childrenfirstfoundation.com/pages.aspx?page=1

Hope you are all doing well.

Laura xx