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o There are organizations in villages and towns that provide
training in vocational skills to widows to help them earn their living.
AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL RIGHTS CRUSADER Philip Wollen is a global animal-rights crusader, humanitarian activist, philanthropist, and motivational speaker, all in one. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005, “for service to international humanitarian relief and to animal welfare, particularly through the establishment of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust.” He is the winner of the Australian Humanitarian Award 2006 and was Australian of Year (Victoria), 2007. Phil graduated from Bishop Cotton's School in 1967 (Pope House) as a thirdgeneration Cottonian. He is the nephew of Air Marshal Mally Wollen (Retired), Old Cottonian and Patron of the General Thimayya Lecture series. Aged 34, Phil was Vice President of Citibank, the largest financial institution in the world, working in Melbourne, Sydney, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, London, New York, and Los Angeles. He specialized in Corporate Finance and was rated first among the Top 40 executives in Australia by one of Australia's leading business journals. However, in the early 1990s he gave it all up for his altruistic pursuits, which have earned international acclaim. He has established a private philanthropic trust called the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust (named after his mother and grandmother) with a view to help needy children and animals. Today, he privately supports 350 humanitarian projects for children, animals and the environment in forty countries – including schools, shelters, sanctuaries, orphanages, clinics, ambulances, bio gas plants and hospitals. One project, Kindness House in Melbourne, is 40,000 square feet and has 300 highly qualified young people doing incredible things for children, refugees, animals, and the environment.
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