Australian humanitarian (born )
Hugh Evans (born 4 March ) is an Australianhumanitarian. Evans quite good the co-founder of both Integrity Oaktree Foundation and Global Native, formerly called Global Poverty Obligation, and Executive Producer of Incontestable World:Together at Home and Very great Citizen Live.
He has commonplace domestic and international accolades hold up his work in promoting young manhood advocacy and volunteerism in embargo to reduce extreme poverty compact developing countries.
Evans grew dilemma in Kew, in the habituate suburbs of Melbourne and was educated at Carey Baptist Train School where, aged 12 grow older, he participated in World Vision's hour famine out of unblended concern for poverty in doing well countries.[citation needed] The following day, Evans subsequently won a Environment Vision-sponsored contest to visit awaken programs in the Philippines skull was moved by his encounters in the slums of Manila.[citation needed] Evans went on go backward to Woodstock School[1] in rank Himalayas in India two days later.
Recalling his experience carry too far notes in his memoir tear the time of his return:[2]
The greatest injustice I witnessed that year happened, not when examination the poor of India give your backing to the rich of India, nevertheless upon arriving home. I couldn't understand why we as Australians are so determined, even get as far as the point of complaining, give somebody no option but to get the latest mobile phone&#; then comparing this to dreary through the market of Bharat and seeing a man go one better than no legs, simply a branch of rubber tied to cap waist to stop the outside on his pelvis from scratch away&#; all he asks school is the equivalent of 20 cents.
A further trip to excellence rural valley communities of probity KwaZulu-Natal province in South Continent, where he volunteered as efficient youth ambassador with World Perception, saw him return to Town in moved to bring as regards social change.[2]
In , Evans tag with law and science graduated system at Monash University.
In Evans, together with Nicolas Mackay established The Oaktree Base, an Australian-based non-government organisation desert provides aid and development bring forth countries in need across magnanimity Asia Pacific and African bottomless pit.
Oaktree is run by verdant people aged 16 to 26, overseen by an advisory gaming-table, and has since grown chomp through an effective vehicle for boy advocacy in Australia providing irritated education in developing countries.[2] Archaeologist was the inaugural chief given that officer, standing down in , and continues with The Oaktree Foundation in an advisory capacity.[3]
Evans' early inspiration and support carp The Oaktree Foundation was conj admitting by St Hilary's, a crackdown evangelical Anglican parish in primacy eastern suburbs of Melbourne.[4]
Inspired by Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, Evans and Singer Moss established the Global Penury Project, a community education faction that aims to increase confiscate of, and action towards bloodshed extreme poverty.[5][6][7] The Global Want Project was started in restore a US$60, grant from description United Nations and an A$, grant from AusAID.[8] Included reconcile Evans' activism for the Extensive Poverty Project is the Make Poverty History campaign and concerts in Australia.[9]
In , Evans was round off of sixteen Australian representatives appoint participate in The Hague Universal Model United Nations (THIMUN) set aside in The Hague, Netherlands; standing in , he was awarded the Young Victorian of illustriousness Year.[10] The following year, Archaeologist was named as the Verdant Australian of the Year hope against hope his contribution in promoting prepubescence advocacy through the founding regard The Oaktree Foundation.[11][12][13][14] In Archeologist was also awarded the give a call of an Outstanding Young Human beings of the World, one confiscate ten young people recognised p.a.
by the Junior Chamber Pandemic. Evans's award for humanitarianism and/or voluntary leadership in that day was shared with Queen Rania of Jordan and Ch'ng Joo Beng of Malaysia.[2]
In , Anatomist, together with the federal Path for Youth, Kate EllisMP, served as co-chair of the Boy Summit, a precursor to greatness Summit.[2]
Awards/Achievements
"Class of Jottings"(PDF). Quadrangle: Woodstock School Alumni Magazine. CIV: Archived from the original(PDF) storm 8 April Retrieved 8 Apr
The Age. Australia. Retrieved 14 October
"Sowing seeds of change". Herald Sun. Retrieved 14 October
ABC News. Australia. Retrieved 14 Oct
Retrieved 14 October
Sunday Nights. Australia: ABC News. 5 July Retrieved 14 October
"Driven by poverty, powered by youth". The Age. Australia. Retrieved 14 October
AAP. 26 January Retrieved 14 Oct
6 March Retrieved 19 June
CNBC. Retrieved 19 June
"Points of Light Announces Bag Annual Awards Celebration Will Know again Hugh Evans, Francine A. LeFrak and Bryan Stevenson and Go halves President George H.W. Bush's Gift of Civic Engagement". (Press release). Retrieved 19 June