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	Mel Baak


Title and Organization:		Chairperson and Founder, Timpir
Gender and Age:		Female, 27
Location:		Adelaide, South Australia
Country of Residence:		Australia
Country of Birth:		Australia
Nationalities:		Australian Sudanese
Citizenships:		Australia
Languages:		English



Website:		http://www.timpir.org
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About Me

Mel has travelled extensively through African countries including Sudan, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. She spent three weeks living in South Sudan in 2007 with her husband and his family and experienced the challenges of living the subsistence lifestyle of South Sudan. She worked in a primary school in Kenya in 2005 for three months and with street children in a rehabilitation centre just outside of Nairobi. She has experience teaching primary school children in the New Arrivals Program for refugee and migrant students at Gilles Street Primary School and previously worked for Local Government developing programs to involve new arrival migrants and refugees in the community. Mel has studied two and a half years of a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and is currently completing her Bachelor of Education at the University of South Australia. She is currently doing her Honours project researching the education experiences of Sudanese refugees in South Australia. She plans to move to Sudan to assist in the development of school curriculum and the building of schools and healthcare facilities in South Sudan.

Countries Visited

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