Helping to transform lives

They come from all sorts of backgrounds: Childhood trauma survivors, migrants from war-torn nations, disadvantaged kids who never finished high school, women escaping domestic violence. As a lecturer at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Blacktown-based coordinator of Clemente Australia, a unique program that provides marginalised Australians with a pathway to university study, Youssef Taouk comes into contact with these characters on a regular basis.