'Barbara Rose Ferguson trained as a schoolteacher and later earned her Licentiate in Theology from the Australian College of Theology. Barbara answered a call for teachers to go to work with children in war-ravaged South Vietnam. With the fall of Saigon, she flew to the USA where she completed a master’s degree and a PhD. Returning to Australia in 1986, Barbara worked for 17 years at the University of New South Wales. In her ‘retirement’, Barbara recalled her childhood promise and has made 11 visits to Congo, working as a volunteer in the HEAL Africa Hospital. Her chief concern is for the destitute Pygmies forced from their traditional forest homes by war. Barbara founded and funded the NGO, Pygmy Child Care, which provides a daily meal, health care and educational activities for children in the village of Mubambiro. Barbara was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia in 2004.'
(Source: publisher's blurb)
