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Back in 2006, Darren met an eight-year-old Cambodian girl who had been rescued from abuse and exploitation. His own daughter was eight years old at the time and the personal impact led him to leave an eighteen-year career in audio production to pursue justice and freedom for the most vulnerable on our planet. This passion has led Darren to join the awesome team at EDM to actively interrupt the trafficking of young women and children in Nepal and prevent them falling into the hands of those who would harm them.

Join us for a transformative breakfast where you will discover the five essential keys to achieving lasting happiness in your retirement.

Nicole has just returned from 12 months as a Rotary Exchand student in Brazil. Nicole will speak on her experiences in this fascinating country.

Helen is a Registered Nurse with almost 40 years of experience in Healthcare.

Her expertise spans several clinical areas but with a focus on clinical supervision, staff development and assessments and the tutoring of nursing students.

Helen is the author of three books: Journey of our Spirit; Abundance of

Joy and Compassion, the Heart of Nursing.

In parallel with her nursing career, Helen is also a complementary therapist – utilising her skills to help people achieve optimal health and wellbeing.

Over a significant part of her nursing career, Helen has volunteered in providing community support such as:

• For a few years, writing monthly articles for the Western Suburbs newspaper on health and wellbeing.

• Providing complementary therapy services at Solariscare, for 16 years, to help and support people dealing with cancer and chronic pain.

• In 2017, becoming a board member of the Australian, NGO, Health in Kind, which provides free medical support and services to underprivileged people in Australia and internationally.

• Travelling to India, during 2018 and 2019, to share her wealth of experience and knowledge with fellow health care professionals as a Compassion trainer at two Sanjeevani, paediatric, cardiac Hospitals to foster a culture of empathy and understanding at every level in the Hospitals.

For the past one and a half years, Helen has lived in Fiji where she has volunteered her time as the Nurse Manager at the, Sanjeevani Children's Hospital, Fiji, which was opened in April 2022.

In this role, she played a major and pivotal part in setting up the hospital which specialises in providing free-of-charge heart surgery to children born with congenital heart disease – ‘CHD.’

As well as managing the hospital, running education sessions on values and compassion and being involved in heart screening during outreach camps, Helen organised and co-ordinated international nursing staff to assist the visiting surgical teams so ensuring the success of the cardiac surgeries. To date, 189 children have received free-of-charge heart surgery at a 100% success rate.

Today, Helen will be talking about her experiences at the Sanjeevani Children's Hospital in Fiji and the importance of nurse education and training for Fiji nurses.

Geoff was born in Wolverhampton England and moved to Perth, Australia when he was five. In 1982 he enlisted as a member of the Royal Australian Air Force as an Administrator and served with them for 21 years before going into full-time missions with Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

In 2001 he completed two years of Bible College part-time in Sydney Australia, before completing a Discipleship Training School (D.T.S.) with YWAM Perth, Australia. Geoff staffed the Crossroads DTS for two years with YWAM Perth and then moved to South Africa as part of a missions team in April 2004, where he met his wife Michelle.

After being called by God to go back to South Africa, Geoff started working with World Changers Academy in July 2004 as the Administrator and Discipleship Coordinator. In 2006 he rejoined the ranks of YWAM, in Durban, becoming the Base Leader in 2010.  He is committed to his passion - Discipleship and sees his role within Prison Fellowship Australia as an extension of that desire.

Geoff's great loves are God, his wife Michelle, sons Wesley and Sandile and drinking good coffee.