Fadlallah wilmot biography sample
Fadlullah Wilmot graduated from the University of Tasmania and lives in Brisbane.!
By Siraj Wahab
Published in Arab News on Saturday, May 24, 2008
H. Fadlullah Wilmot oversees the charity and relief efforts in Southeast Asia for the British-based Muslim Aid organization.
In this interview, Mr. Wilmot discusses his work with Muslim NGOs in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
British born and Australian raised and educated, Wilmot converted to Islam as a student at the University of Tasmania. He later joined Australia’s Volunteers Abroad program and taught English in Aceh, Indonesia, where he met his wife, with whom he resides in Malaysia.
Wilmot now serves as Muslim Aid’s director for Indonesia and will be taking over its Bangladesh office this summer.
He said since taking a position with Muslim Aid in 2005 in the aftermath of the deadly tsunami, he has found an organization that lives up to the best traditions of Islam.
“The mission of Muslim Aid has always been to serve humanity; to deal with emergencies,” Wilmot told Arab News during a recent visit to Jeddah.
“We can only try to educate people in order to minimize the effects of