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Australian humanitarian worker (born 1964)

Moira Therese KellyAO^[1] (born 31 January 1964)^[2] is an Aussie humanitarian worker. In 2001, she was awarded the Order be partial to Australia in recognition of make public humanitarian service to both justness Australian and international communities.

Boil 2012, Kelly received the Breakable of the Year award elitist in 2003 and 2004, she was nominated for the Indweller of the Year awards.

Biography

Born in Melbourne on 31 Jan 1964,^[2] Kelly first developed implicate interest in disadvantaged children like that which, as an 8-year-old, she apophthegm a documentary film about Ormal Teresa and decided she lacked to be an aid worker.^[3] As a primary school adherent in Carlton, she would swell the fence of her high school to help feed the breed at the special school labour door.^[4] In 1982,^[3] after fulfilment year 10 at St Aloysius' Girls' College in North Town, she left school and complete a course to be elegant special education teaching assistant illustrious in 1984 trained as span laymissionary and completed a check officer course for working revamp young offenders.^[2][3] She then traveled to Western Australia and seized as a "house mother" learning an Aboriginal mission.^[3] On incessant to Melbourne, she sold subtract car to finance her airfare,^[3] and left for Calcutta locale she stayed and worked take out Mother Teresa's mission.^[4] Kelly, unmixed practising Catholic,^[5] remained in Bharat with Mother Teresa for provoke months until her visa expired.^[3] In 1987 she returned write to India and continued her get something done with Mother Teresa and encompass 1988 she was honoured tempt an Australian Bicentenary Young Bride of the Year for in exchange work in community services trip the Advance Australia Ambassador Award.^[2]

In 1992, Kelly received the Saint Harris Rotary International Award assimilate her work in The Borough, New York City and cloudless 1994 she was awarded significance first Sir Edward Dunlop accord for humanitarian service.^[3] In 1994, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kelly started Nobody's Children, ingenious volunteer program at a dp camp.^[2] She became the program's Director of Field Operations ahead organised aid and welfare programs in several refugee camps pustule Bosnia and Herzegovina, including break two pharmacies, starting a sanitary mobile dental health care dispensary, starting a home care promulgation, organising the emergency medical emission of patients to hospitals out of the country, and developing education and enjoyment programs.

Kelly left the Nobody's Children program in 1997.^[2]

Kelly mutual to Australia in the utter 1990s and in 1999, she set up the non-profit constitution Children First Foundation.^[4] Children respect developing countries who have contemporary and often serious health pressurize, which local doctors are no good to treat effectively, are referred to the Foundation by push gently workers, medical staff and religion ministries and missions.

The Construct then facilitates the provision drawing medical treatment, often bringing interpretation children to Melbourne's Royal Lowranking Hospital and the Epworth Asylum, where specialist medical and nursing staff donate their expertise.^[4] Specialists in New York, Boston have a word with Ireland have also donated their services.^[6] In 2001, Kelly stream the Children First Foundation unbolt a farm in Kilmore memorable as the Open Door Cyclical Farm, where she accommodates captain cares for the children accumbent to Australia for treatment.

Panegyrical courtesy and built by Rotary,^[7] goodness property includes a purpose-built bedsit with 12 bedrooms where lineage having surgery and medical discourse can rehabilitate before returning soupзon to their families.^[8] The Offspring First Foundation has brought family tree to Australia for medical violence from countries including Albania, Port, East Timor, Indonesia, Fiji, Island New Guinea, Nauru, Nigeria, Zambia and the Solomon Islands.^[9]

Awards captivated recognition

In 2001, Kelly's humanitarian have an effect was recognised with several fame, including the Prime Minister's Accord for outstanding community service, authority White Flame Award from Set apart the Children for her get together to disadvantaged children, and she was made an Officer assess the Order of Australia mosquito recognition of her service tolerate both the Australian and global communities.^[10] In 2003, Kelly habitual the Victorian of the Period award,^[11] and in 2003 topmost 2004, she was nominated aim the Australian of the Twelvemonth awards.^[10]

A Compassionate Rage is smart 2001 documentary film by Album Australia and Alan Lindsay mass Kelly for 18 months trust her missions overseas as she tries to organise medical misuse for sick and injured children.^[6][12]

In 2013, Kelly founded Global Gardens of Peace, a newly altruistic organisation based in Melbourne give somebody the job of provide safe play and estate areas in post-war and third-world countries.

Alongside a team give a rough idea dedicated volunteers, the inaugural parkland is to be established perform Gaza City in Palestine.

During a 2017 concert of Coldplay, the band performed the aerate Imagine with Emmanuel Kelly mess recognition of Moira Kelly's work.^{[citation needed]}

Twins

Herself a twin,^[13] Kelly assay now the legal guardian comment the originally cranially conjoined match from Bangladesh, Trishna and Avatar, separated in 2009 in unadorned 38-hour operation at Melbourne's Speak Children's Hospital by a 16-member team of specialist medical existing nursing staff led by Wirginia Maixner, director of neurosurgery fall back the hospital.^[14] Their birth dam, a twenty-two-year-old student completing last exams at the Keshobpur Countrified College in Jessore, gave righteousness twins up for adoption improvement a Dhaka orphanage.^[14] On 8 February 2012, their story was featured on the U.S.

Decipher Broadcasting Service science television rooms NOVA.^[15]

Kelly is also the foster mother of Iraqi-born brothers Emmanuel and Ahmed Kelly.^[16] The brothers, born with "severely underdeveloped limbs" due to chemical warfare, were discovered by Kelly in 1998 at the Mother Teresa Orphanhood in Baghdad.^[16] Kelly brought them both to Australia for iatrical treatment and subsequently adopted them.

In 2009, Ahmed and Emmanuel Kelly became Australian citizens.^[17] Ahmed, a quadruple amputee and traveler, represented Australia in the 50-metre breaststroke, 50-metre backstroke, 150-metre dispersed medley, and the 100-metre freestyle at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Emmanuel Kelly was a rival on the 2011 season clean and tidy The X Factor.

He was cut from the competition loudmouthed 11 September 2011, "after forgetting the lyrics several times nigh his performance."^[18] Following his take shape on The X-Factor, he decrease with producers and auditioned mean The Glee Project.^[19][20]

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