March 27, 2019
Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston AM will be the special guest at the next Mayor’s Community Charity Breakfast.
The breakfast will also be the official launch of this year’s South Burnett Relay For Life campaign.
Hetty is a former Queensland Australian of the Year and announced this week she will be running as an Independent candidate for the Senate at the upcoming Federal Election.
She founded Bravehearts in 1997 when she discovered there was no organisation where people affected by child sexual assault could turn to for help.
Bravehearts now employs more than 65 people across Australia providing child protection training, community education, and specialist child sexual assault counselling.
Its mission is to prevent child sexual assault in society.
Hetty has been named among Westpac’s “100 Women of Influence” and YWCA Queensland’s’ “125 Leading Women”, as well as Ernst & Young Northern Australia’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.
She received the annual Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership award in 2009 and was awarded a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship in 2010.
Hetty was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014.
The Mayor’s Community Charity Breakfast will be held from 6:30am to 8:30am on May 2 in the Tobruk Room at Kingaroy RSL Club.
Cost is $30 with all proceeds donated to Relay For Life.
Tickets can be pre-purchased at the Council’s office in Glendon Street, Kingaroy.
- RSVP by April 25 to Bronwyn Barry on (07) 4189-9155 or by email
