Ambassadors
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| | | Sallianne Deckert started writing articles for newspapers from the family farm in Victoria when she was 12 years old. Her television career began straight out of school and has taken her around the world.
A member of the original Talk to the Animals series in 1997, Sallianne is loving being part of the team again traveling Australia and overseas, reporting and producing her own stories.
Sallianne's other credits include reporter/producer roles with Postcards (Victoria), Today, Mornings with Kerri-Anne, A Current Affair, Getaway and Our House, all on the Nine Network.
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At the end of 2005, Sallianne and her husband Steve adopted a baby girl, Kuleni from Ethiopia. For the last two years they've been living a family adventure based in north east Arnhem Land. Living by the Arafura Sea, their neighbours include crocodiles, buffaloes and dingoes.
The family's approved second adoption file has been waiting in Ethiopia for almost two years. The entire process for this second adoption has taken four years so far. Kuleni is very proud of her birth country and the whole family is really looking forward to travelling back to Ethiopia.
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| | | Dr. Aronson has been a pediatrician since 1986. She has a solo pediatric practice in Manhattan specializing in adoption medicine since 2000 and has evaluated well over 10,000 adopted children; she has traveled to orphanages in Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Haiti and Latin America while on medical missions. In addition, Dr. Aronson is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at both Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Columbia University.
Since 1997, she has provided direct services to orphaned children through her foundation, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO).
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WWO began its work by creating a “peace corps” for orphanages by commissioning university students and healthcare professionals to support orphans and they are called "Orphan Rangers". Since 1997, Dr. Aronson has funded over 120 Orphan Rangers in a dozen countries.
Over the past 12 years, WWO has created holistic/organic programs for HIV-infected orphans in Ethiopia and Vietnam as well as schools, camps, sports programs, and early intervention programs for orphaned children in many countries.
WWO was in Haiti right after the earthquake to study the crisis for orphans and to provide policy advice and support.
She has been at the forefront of media coverage of orphan issues and is actively involved in advocacy for orphan policies in the world.
Dr. Aronson received an Angel in Adoption Award in 2000 and she was honored by Glamour magazine on November 9, 2009, as one of 10 Women of the Year. She is a parent through adoption and has two sons, Benjamin, 10 yo, from Viet Nam and Desalegn, 11 yo, from Ethiopia.
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