Hugh Evans
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Hugh is the current director of the Oaktree Foundation.
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Currently studying a Law/Science degree at Monash University, Australia, Hugh Evans, has been chosen as The Young Australian of the Year for 2004 and One of Ten Outstanding Young People of the World for 2004.Mr Evans recently finished school at Carey Grammar school in Australia. Whilst at Carey, Hugh Evans was a prefect, and actively contributed to many aspects of school life.
Throughout his time at Carey, Hugh was actively involved in World Vision, as a member of the World Vision Youth Committee (Vision Generation) for over five years.
Hugh was the inaugural treasurer of Vision Generation, and yearly coordinator of the WV 40 Hour Famine at his school, now the highest 10-year fundraising school in Victoria.
Hugh’s involvement with World Vision has taken him to the Philippines after being awarded the opportunity to represent Australia at the 1998 Qantas Study Tour.
This experience in turn lead Hugh to apply for the William Carey Scholarship to India for six months. Hugh received this scholarship, and whilst studying in India supported and worked in various aid projects including a visit to World Vision projects in Delhi, the Tibetan refugees, Mother Theresa’s Orphanage in Calcutta and Dheradoon, Bhalagange Children’s Orphanage and The Disabled Children’s School in Delhi.
Upon return from India Hugh Evans was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch in July 2000 in conjunction with the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
On a global level, Hugh has sought to tackle issues of world poverty through his involvement in the United Nations Youth Association of Victoria, (UNYA), with whom he was selected to represent Australia at The International Model United Nations Conference in The Hague (Netherlands) in January 2001.
After finishing high school in 2001, Hugh worked as World Vision’s inaugural Youth Ambassador in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa for a year. This experience impacted Hugh’s life so profoundly that he returned to Australia to establish The Oaktree Foundation- a movement of young Australian’s responding to issues of global poverty.
Hugh was the author of Stone of the Mountain published in November 2004 and is currently working on his second work, Just Stand, inspiring and motivating young people to make a difference in our world.
Awards
- 2004 Young Australian of the Year
- 2005 JCI Young Person of the World
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