Daniel Wordsworth…
…has been to more war zones, natural disasters and refugee camps than any living Australian.
For more than 30 years he has rolled up his sleeves and travelled the world to help the poor and disadvantaged.
Famines, conflicts, floods, droughts, earthquakes, cyclones or tsunamis. You name them - he’s been on the frontline doing all he can to help. In seeing the worst of humanity, Daniel has seen the best of humanity, turning him into a self-coined ‘reluctant optimist’.
As you can hear in his podcast, Finding Good, Daniel is absolutely certain that the world is far more abundant than we think.
Even in places that appear ‘wicked’, there is abundant goodness right there with it and when we are aware of and harness the goodness surrounding us, remarkable things can be done.
Daniel knows this because he’s spent a career heading into tough situations. Whether that be Afghanistan, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Uganda, Syria, Colombia, Somalia or the jungles of Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
In 2021 he returned home to be CEO of World Vision Australia on behalf of generous everyday Aussies.
As the Russians invaded Ukraine in 2022, Daniel was on the plane to Kyiv and with famine looming in the Horn of Africa, last year he was back in Somalia and Ghana to remind Australians that their generosity can save the lives of thousands.
Now he is taking on climate change and leading the charge to regenerate a billion hectares of bush and forests on degraded land.
Learn more about how Daniel finds the good in the most evil of places in his Finding Good with Daniel Wordsworth.
Question/Comments for Daniel?
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“What we were overwhelmed by was not need, we were overwhelmed by people wanting to help”
— Daniel Wordsworth, 2023