Our team

Le Thu Phan-Tran
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Born in the outskirts of Viet Nam, Le arrived in Australia as a 13-year-old boat refugee in 1982. Le grew up in Perth, completed her secondary education at St Thomas Aquinas, and then graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Science (Health Information Management) in 1991. She is currently the Health Information Manager at Glengarry Private Hospital.
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In 2008, while working at Mercy Hospital Mt. Lawley (now St. John of God), Le was nominated to attend the Catherine McCauley Award Programme – Developing Women in Leadership and Service – for Young Women under 40. After a year of listening and learning from inspiring and like-minded women from all around the world, this sparked the beginning of a new journey in her life.
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As a child, Le Thu experienced living in an orphanage centre run by her parents, so she has always felt a sense of closeness to orphaned children. It is because of her own childhood memories and former hardships of life, that the orphaned children are especially dear and precious to her.
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Her mission is to help as many as she can, little by little. She continues to live by Mother Teresa’s words, “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one”.

Fr. Jason Yeap
Spiritual Director

Peter Whyte
Legal Advisor

Michael Pham
Chairman

Victoria Phan
Managing Director
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Julianna Wong
Treasurer
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Judith Tresham
Secretary

Reynaldo Padernilla
Social Media Support and Filipino Relations

Paulo Padernilla
IT and Website Manager
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