Corrin Varady

Corrin Varady is an academic and journalist^[1] who has also modelled extensively^[2] for international fashion publications. As a high achieving Australian, Varady has been chosen as a 2011 Australia Day Ambassador. He has finished two masters (Bocconi School of Economics/UNSW, Milan and LSE, London) both with First Class Honours and is currently finishing his PhD on scholarship at the London School of Economics in “Identity of Islamisation in the Middle East: The Lebanese sectarian view”. In 2010 he began writing a column for the Huffington Post, USA. He currently lives between Beirut, London and the East African region.

A number of years ago Corrin volunteered to teach HIV orphaned and disadvantaged children in East Africa. From this visit he became acutely aware of a need to create a foundation that focussed on quality education and leadership, supplanting the dream that one day these conflict and HIV affected regions would be helped by the children he supported.

The World Youth Education Trust (WYET) ** was registered in the UK to rehabilitate and educate former child soldiers and already supports over 400 children and has rolled out the Duke Of Edinburgh Award throughout conflict-affected region of Northern Uganda. In 2011, under WYET, Corrin is continuing to build the first counselling centres for former child soldiers, a boarding school for returned children in remote regions of the country as well as continuing to educate the Masaai warrior tribes in northern Tanzania on educational development and self sustainable living.

Corrin is currently producing “Road to Freedom Peak”www.roadtofreedompeak.com a journey between himself and a former child soldier as they ride their bicycles across three East African countries bringing local and international awareness to the use of children in conflict directed by filmmaker Max Pugh.

Corrin advocates social entrepreneurship launching Gulu Ltd in 2009, a company investing in cultural products from the emerging world. He is currently working with Ugandan refugee woman allowing them to relocate into secure accommodation and provide for their families.

Corrin has climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, ridden his bike across three East Africa countries, been adopted by the Masaai warriors in Tanzania and become a brother figure to child soldiers in Northern Uganda. He spent months working with and caring for refugees in East Africa and interviewed hundreds of religious extremists and political figures in the Middle East all the in pursuit of education for himself and the communities he works in. As a 2011 Australia Day Ambassador Corrin hopes to bring awareness and education to the Australian public of the need for accurate and informed engagement in Africa and the Middle East to support local leadership and local communities in transforming their own futures.

References

1. ^ Varady, Corrin. "The world that speaks but doesn't hear", The Huffington Post, October 25, 2010
2. ^ [1] Chadwick Models, Australia

External links

• Australia Day Ambassador
• Huffington Post
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