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Jacqui Gilmour is the Founder & Director of Hope for Children Australia and has had many years experience living and working in Africa, including involvement in relief efforts during the 80's Ethiopian famine. She established Hope for Children in Australia, initially on her own in 2002, by setting up Child Sponsorship and Donations programs. Hope for Children is an organisation that focuses on empowering local communities in Ethiopia to best care for their vulnerable children and break the vicious cycle of poverty. The organisation supports a wide variety of programs which provide children with food, shelter, education, medical care and life skills.

Jacqui is active in raising awareness of the plight of Ethiopian children left orphaned by AIDS, and she speaks to many schools, communities and business groups on this issue. She has also been instrumental in fostering relationships with government, educational and medical institutions to implement joint initiatives for the benefit of the children in Ethiopia. Jacqui was previously a director of both Hope for Children Ethiopia and Hope for Children USA. She has three adopted Ethiopians in a family of 7 children and resides here in Perth.

Jacqui is also on the Executive committee of the Australians Children Trust, which works with underprivileged children in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Its core driver is to assist young Australians from all backgrounds, in particular underprivileged children, to realise their potential under a philosophy based on the principal of providing people with a means to help themselves.