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Title Australian Story: Children of a Lesser God
Published Australia : ABC, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 7 sec.) ; 170216828 bytes
Summary Introduced by Jimmy BarnesWhat drives a young Sydney woman to drop her glamorous career in the film industry to open an orphanage in Cambodia?Tara Winkler was just twenty-two when she established the Cambodian Children's Trust in Cambodia. She is now 'mother', mentor and older sister to twenty-seven orphans, some as young as two.Her grandmother was a holocaust survivor and she strongly identified with the plight of children in a country still scarred by genocide.Tara Winkler's work has helped her overcome her own demons. As a teenager, she suffered depression, now she says she simply 'doesn't have time' to be depressed
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2010-04-05 at 20:00:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Children and genocide.
Fund raising -- Corrupt practices.
Orphans -- Institutional care.
Orphans -- Social conditions.
Young volunteers in social service.
Cambodia.
Form Streaming video
Author Barnes, Jimmy, host
Brimblecombe, Kelly, contributor
Chan, Sinet, contributor
Kersey, Sue, contributor
Pon, Jedtha, contributor
Winkler, Peter, contributor
Winkler, Tara, contributor