Inspiring others to conquer adversity
KHADIJA Glba draws on her experience as a refugee to inspire others.
KHADIJA Glba draws on her experience as a refugee to inspire others.
KHADIJA Glba draws on her experience as a refugee to inspire others.
WHEN 10-year-old Ebony Flentjar saw her father erupt in flames and desperately attempt to put himself out, she knew she had to act quickly to save his life.
IT was the proudest night of Bill Ryan’s life at the glamour packed national Pride of Australia awards in Sydney last November.
SOMETIMES, life comes down to the spin you put on it. Margaret Berryman’s life could be seen as traumatic: she’s nursed numerous family members and friends through cancer, strokes and heart attacks, helping them as they suffered.
A LOUD bang turned Paul Carruthers’ average day into one he would never forget.
SU James has never been to Afghanistan or Iraq but she is leaving her mark on Australian troops serving in some of the world’s most hostile places.
LIKE the stitching on a much-loved football, Bob Holmes is the thread holding the West Croydon Football Club together.
THREE years ago, the children of Oudong in Cambodia played in the dust with little prospects of a healthy life or education — but now they have a head start in life, thanks to an Adelaide couple.
WHENEVER a pet goes missing, the Lost Pets of South Australia team is there.
AS the son of a police officer and with ambitions to join the force, William Crouch knew he could not sit idle as he watched a man knock a 93-year-old woman over in a supermarket carpark.
FOR Unley street artist Adam Poole-Mottishaw, creativity is the way to get young people on the straight and narrow.
VICTOR Harbor resident Norm Ginn faced a firing squad during Word War II so anything life has thrown at him since has been a breeze.
TWO brain aneurisms left Toula Michalakis spending five days drifting in and out of consciousness in 2008. She was told by hospital doctors that she would’t be going home. But seven years spent reinventing herself, she’s battling to regain her life clearly.
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