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OUR COMMITTEE
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Library Aid International has a volunteer Committee which meets regularly to oversee current activities and plan future progress
LEONI READ
PRESIDENT/SECRETARY
Leoni Read (M Ed, B. A., Grad. Diploma of Education (language and Literacy) – is a retired Teacher who specialised in adult literacy and teaching English to students of other languages. She has taught overseas in a school for poor Pakistani students in Oman.
Leoni is a Lay Preacher for the Uniting Church of Australia.
JOHN PACKHAM
VICE PRESIDENT
John Packham – is a retired third-generation bread manufacturer, having worked in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and India. He is a member of the Burnie Uniting Church, and a Church Councillor. He was a Life Member of Lions Clubs International, and is a current member of Rotary International and Life Member of the Burnie Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
ROBERT READ
TREASURER
Robert Read (B. Sc.) – is a Hydrogeologist working with water supplies in arid areas. He has experience working in diverse cultural settings in central Australia and overseas in Oman.
DEREK PADGETT
MEMBER
Derek Padgett – is a Church Deacon and has taught aviation subjects to air cadets in the past.
PETER CUNNINGHAM
MEMBER
Peter Cunningham (Dip Teach) – is a retired Educator, having taught in various schools in Tasmania. He is a Church Deacon and Treasurer.
KAYE KINGHAM
MEMBER
Kaye Kingham – is a retired Home Tutor for the Remote School of the Air (now School of Distance Education) and was the Representative for Far North Queensland. She has been a co-owner of a large cleaning business and among other things established and ran a playgroup for young children.
