A Change of Guard

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Tuesday 18 August 2015

Geraldine Cox: 'Big Mum' on search for heir to Cambodian orphanage, welfare empire

Geraldine Cox at an opening for a new orphanage Photo: Geraldine Cox believes she found her calling in helping to run the Sunrise Children's Villages orphanages in Cambodia. (Supplied: Sunrise Children's Villages)
 
She is a dynamo who has charmed both a prince and a prime minister into helping her to be 'Mum' to hundreds of orphaned, raped, trafficked, disabled and abandoned children.
But at 70, Geraldine Cox admits that the clock is ticking and she must find a successor to run her orphanage and welfare empire in Cambodia.
"I've been trying for many years to try and find someone to put up their hand," she told Australian Story.
"But it's a big ask. Who wants to live in rural Cambodia with no privacy, hundreds of kids, the pressure of having to raise money, travelling economy, on a small salary?"
Read the full story and the watch the videos here.

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