Business View Magazine - Oceania Edition - Oct-Nov 2017

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Establishing peace within
communities
While talking about social justice and
the things that make everyone equal is
important, actively seeking out change
and guiding the development of grass-
roots individuals into leaders is even
more crucial. Leila Alloush is one of the
people who has dedicated her life in
helping others and showing the world
that positive change can only occur
through cooperation and hard work.
When Leila migrated from Lebanon
to Australia almost 35 years ago she
encountered many difficulties, both ex-
pected and unexpected. For one, she
was lacking English language skills and
had to learn everything from scratch.
Her migration and settlement process-
es was challenging. Transitioning back
then was very stressful, with racism
being a huge factor in the school en-
vironment and peers being unwelcom-
ing to foreigners especially those who