In this Inaugural Edition, Minh Hien and Farshid recall their compelling educational journeys over 40 years in Australia. They interweave stories of their experiences in sponsoring and educating students in rural areas of Vietnam, and in providing scholarships to support refugee students in Tasmania with hundreds of colourful inspirational photos of beautiful landscapes and lovely people. The book also includes words of wisdom from the Baha'i writings, the Bible, Buddha, Eastern and Western educators, philosophers, scientists and writers.

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Hien Minh Thi Tran (Minh Hien) is an author, an educator and a researcher. She has taught students from rural areas in Vietnam since 2017. She worked as an engineer, an IT consultant, a systems accountant and a systems manager. While working, she studied for eight qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts and Education. She holds a Master of Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Writing, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Engineering Science, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Graduate Conversion Course in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, all from Australian universities. She is a qualified member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants. She is featured in the 2008 Who's Who in Tasmania. She has presented academic papers at international conferences and published research papers in international journals in the fields of education, engineering, computing, accounting and management since 1989.

Dr Farshid Anvari is a researcher, an engineer and an educational consultant. He visits Vietnam regularly to learn Vietnamese culture, participate in teaching activities and present papers at international conferences. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy in Computing, a Graduate Diploma of Information Technology, a Graduate Diploma of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a co-inventor of Healthy Me, an online research platform to support consumer health decision making. He loves to capture the beauty and happiness of life as it is through photography.

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