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Geraldine Cox, AM, daughter of a South Australian milkman, joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970 and served 18 years in Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Iran and the USA, but moved to Cambodia to live and work with more than 200 orphans who call her Big Mum. She divides her time between living at Sunrise Children’s Village in Cambodia and travelling to raise funds for her projects.
In 1995 events in her life found her in Cambodia 25 years after she had left it, working for the First Prime Minister, before the 1997 coup catapulted her into running an orphanage full time. She divides her time between living at Sunrise Children’s Village in Cambodia and travelling to raise funds for her projects.
After resigning from the government in 1987 she worked for 8 years with The Chase Manhattan Bank in Sydney before deciding to live in Cambodia in 1996.
Geraldine’s original experiences in Cambodia never left her and on a return visit in 1993 she became involved in helping an orphaned Cambodian child. From that small beginning Geraldine founded what is now the Sunrise Children’s Villages.
King Norodom Sihanouk bestowed her with full Cambodian Citizenship by Royal Decree in 1999 and she spends half the year with the children and the remainder travelling to raise funds.
Pan Macmillan published Geraldine’s autobiography, Home Is Where The Heart Is in 2000 and Hollywood bought the rights to make a feature film based on her book.
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