THE 2017 Luminosity Youth Summit wraps up on Friday at the Glasshouse leaving Mid North Coast students with an empowered vision for their own futures.
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Guest presenters on Friday’s line-up includes Imagineer – Art Tech Fashion presenter Nixi Killick; Nicholas Marchesi, co-founder of Orange Sky Laundry and positive psychology researcher Mariane Power.
Also on today’s presenter line-up is Annabelle Chauncy OAM, the founding director of School For Life Foundation (SFL).
SFL is a grassroots organisation that has built and runs two schools in rural Uganda. The schools provide high quality education to more than 400 primary students (including children with disabilities), vocational training to more than 100 adults, clean drinking water, electricity, community outreach and medical treatment to their surrounding communities.
Annabelle was awarded an OAM in January 2015. She has raised over $4 million in five years and her role includes management in Australia and Uganda of strategy, governance, human resources, fundraising and sponsorship, marketing, media and events.
In 2012, Annabelle was named in Australian Financial Review and Westpac's Top 100 Women of Influence 2012 and voted Cosmopolitan Magazine's 2012 Role Model of the Year. Annabelle was a finalist in two categories of the NSW Telstra Businesswomen's Awards 2013 for Business Innovation and Young Businesswoman.
She was the winner of the Australian Women's Weekly and Qantas' Woman of the Future award in 2014.
Annabelle is a country girl who grew up on a sheep and cattle farm in Canyonleigh.
She attended small primary and secondary schools then studied at Sydney University. A visit in 2007 as part of World Youth International Overseas Service Project saw 21 year-old Annabelle spend three months in Kenya and Uganda, where she undertook aid work.
She returned numerous times and in November 2008 to March 2009 she led a volunteer school building project in Northern Uganda.
Her experience led her to found SFL with David Everett in 2008. Having completed her undergraduate Arts/Law degree, gaining professional experience and meeting Dave, she made the decision to invest her legal knowledge in the non-profit sector and specifically SFL.
Annabelle’s passion lies in building relationships, managing events, sponsorships and business development.
