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Lady Martin honoured with OAM medal |
| 17 June 2011 |
 Media coverage - Wentworth Courier, 13 June 2011In her usual selfless way, Lady Suzanne Martin of Queen’s Park was excited when she opened a letter about her OAM because she knew it would help her charity. “I was absolutely delighted to receive the letter because it’s publicity for the Sir David Martin Foundation,’’ Lady Martin said. She has been awarded a medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday 2011 Honours list for service to youth through the Foundation. Sir David Martin was a Governor of NSW who died of mesothelioma in 1990. Working with a Missionbeat van before his death he realised how many homeless people were quite young. So just before he died, he set up the Sir David Martin Foundation to fund Mission Australia’s Triple Care Farm, a residential rehabilitation program to help prevent people between the ages of 16 and 24 ending up on the streets. “When I got the letter I shed a little tear because I thought `How exciting for David, if only he could just have seen it all and known how many young people he’d helped’,’’ she said. “David’s been dead for 21 years and we’re seeing children now who have no idea who he is or what he did. But they know the name of the Foundation, and I’m always greeted very warmly when I go down there. “Due to the very generous people of NSW who have given us about $20 million over 21 years, it’s enabled us to help many, many young people get their lives back on track who otherwise would have really lost their way. “We have a fantastic success rate and it’s all because they want to be there and because we can help them. Photo: John Appleyard |
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