Ray Higgs, District Chair of the Rotary Peacebuilding & Conflict Prevention committee, has organised a speaker who is a candidate for this program.
Vandy S Kamara came to Australia 10 years ago from his native country, the civil war torn Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa. He lived a great part of his life in 'Internally Displaced Peoples' camps [what a euphemism! Ed.] and various refugee camps. This gave him a strong belief in humanity and education. Vandy started his own Foundation, largely financed from his own savings. It started with providing water points for communities, funding vaccination for children and later a community school, which now has an enrolment of some 380 pupils.
Vandy currently works with Wesley Mission Queensland, supporting homeless people, young people and their families in the Logan to Ipswich region.