Moira Therese Kelly (born January 31, 1964) is an Australian humanitarian worker. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Australia in recognition of his humanitarian services to the Australian and international communities. In 2012, Kelly received the Victorian of the Year award and in 2003 and 2004, she was nominated for an Australian of the Year award.
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Biography
Born in Melbourne on January 31, 1964, Kelly first developed an interest in disadvantaged children when, when he was 8, he saw a documentary about Mother Teresa and decided to become a relief worker. As an elementary school student at Carlton, he will climb up his school fence to help feed the kids at a special school next door. In 1982, after completing his 10th year at St. Aloysius 'Girls' College in North Melbourne, he left school and completed a course to become a special educational teaching assistant and in 1984 trained as a lay missionary and completed an experimental coursework course to work with young offenders. He then traveled to Western Australia and worked as a "housewife" on an Aboriginal mission. When he returned to Melbourne, he sold his car to pay for his plane ticket, and left for Calcutta where he lived and worked with Mother Teresa's mission. Kelly, a practicing Catholic, remained in India with Mother Teresa for six months until her visa ended. In 1987, he returned to India and continued his work with Mother Teresa and in 1988 she was honored as the Australian Bicentenary of the Year for her work in community service and the Australian Ambassador Prize.
In 1992, Kelly received the Rotary Paul Harris International Award for his work in The Bronx, New York City and in 1994 he was awarded the first Sir Edward Dunlop award for humanitarian service. In 1994, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kelly started Nobody's Children, a volunteer program in a refugee camp. He became the Field Operations Director of the program and organized aid and welfare programs in several refugee camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including opening two pharmacies, starting a free dental care clinic, starting a home care program, arranging emergency medical evacuation of patients to hospitals abroad , and developing educational and recreational programs. Kelly left the Nobody's Children program in 1997.
Kelly returned to Australia in the late 1990s and in 1999 she founded a non-profit organization, Children First Foundation. Children in developing countries who have frequent and serious health problems, which can not be effectively managed by local doctors, are referred to the Foundation by relief workers, medical staff and church and mission ministries. The Foundation then facilitates the provision of medical care, often bringing children to the Royal Children's Hospital of Melbourne and Epworth Hospitals, where medical staff and specialist nursing contribute their expertise. Specialists in New York, Boston and Ireland have also donated their services. In 2001, Kelly and the First Child Foundation opened a farm in Kilmore known as Open Door Rotary Farm, where she housed and cared for children brought to Australia for treatment. Donated and built by Rotary, this property includes a specially built 12 bedroom house where children undergo surgery and medical treatment can rehabilitate before returning home for their family. The First Child Foundation has brought children to Australia for medical treatment from countries including Albania, Djibouti, East Timor, Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Nigeria, Zambia and the Solomon Islands.
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Awards and acknowledgments
In 2001, Kelly's humanitarian work was recognized with several awards, including the Prime Minister's Award for outstanding public service, Save the Children's Save the Children Award for his ministry to disadvantaged children, and he was made an Australian Order Officer acknowledging his services for Australian and international communities. In 2003, Kelly received the Victorian of the Year award, and in 2003 and 2004, she was nominated for an Australian of the Year award.
A Compassionate Rage was a 2001 documentary by Australian Film and Alan Lindsay who followed Kelly for 18 months on a mission abroad when she tried to arrange medical care for sick and injured children.
In 2013, Kelly founded Global Gardens of Peace, a new humanitarian organization based in Melbourne, Australia to provide safe play areas and parks in post-war and third world countries. Along with a dedicated team of volunteers, the park will be established in Gaza City in Palestine.
Twins
Myself is a twin, Kelly is now the legal guardian of the cranial conjoined twins from Bangladesh, Trishna and Krishna, who were separated in 2009 in a 38-hour operation at the Royal Children's Hospital of Melbourne by a 16-member team of prominent medical and nursing staff led by Wirginia Maixner, director of neurosurgery at the hospital. Their biological mother, a twenty-two-year-old student who completed her final examination at Keshobpur Agricultural College in Jessore, gave the twins for adoption at a Dhaka orphanage. On February 8th, 2012, their story is featured on the broadcast television series of the US Broadcasting Services Service NOVA .
Kelly is also the adoptive mother of Iraqi-born brother Emmanuel and Ahmed Kelly. The brothers, born with "very backward limbs" due to chemical warfare, were discovered by Kelly in 1998 at Mother Teresa's Orphanage in Baghdad. Kelly took them both to Australia for medical treatment and then adopted them. In 2009, Ahmed and Emmanuel Kelly became Australian citizens. Ahmed, a four-fold amputee and swimmer, represents Australia in 50-meter breaststroke, 50-meter backstroke, 150 meter individual medley, and 100 meters freestyle at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Emmanuel Kelly is a contestant in the 2011 season The X Factor . She was cut from the competition on September 11, 2011, "having forgotten the lyrics several times during her performance." After his performance on The X-Factor, he met with the producer and auditioned for The Glee Project.
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