This is the tale of a woman who bravely opens doors and thus has astounding adventures and enlightenments. All in the context of what can only be called an adventure story and an extraordinary life.
– Thomas Keneally

About Accidental Aid Worker

In the wake of the devastating 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, author Sue Liu found herself stumbling into voluntary aid work. Teaming up with a tour guide and a Catholic priest, together they delivered aid collection to tsunami refugees who were also still suffering amid the conflict of the civil war in the north eastern town of Trincomalee. These experiences were the beginning of a 12-year obsession of helping people in need, including 9 years supporting children in Cambodia, refugees and now homeless communities in Sydney.

Readers travel along with Liu through quirky travel adventures and harrowing life experiences that run the gamut of human sensations; love and loss, entanglement, disillusionment, exhilaration and achievement in the midst of adversity. Accidental Aid Worker is also a moving and real-life account of Sue’s drive to survive and maintain her commitment to supporting others while facing adversity of her own. Along the way she struggles to reconnect with her life, identity and purpose and is forced to face inescapable truths about herself in order to navigate her way to the woman she really wants to be – her challenges will resonate with many.

Liu’s heart-warming and thought-provoking story will make you laugh, bring you to tears, inspire a thirst for travel, a yearning to give back and pause for thought about what really makes us all tick.

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Sue Liu lives in Annandale, Sydney, with her enormous brown Burmese cat Moet. She’s ‘Chiefette’ of her own Business and Marketing consultancy, Zulu Communications and Candles for Community. A passionate advocate of community and humanitarian focused work, Sue puts in an equal amount of time as a volunteer, leading and connecting people to opportunities to help vulnerable people.

For fun she loves to travel, explore, scuba dive, experience life and celebrate all things creative. Sue is artistic and a fanatic feline lover who finds solace in the garden. Accidental Aid Worker is her first book. She is currently writing the sequel and a book of travel adventures.

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Sue Liu — Accidental Aid Worker

Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Venue: Mitchell Theatre

Sometimes it takes a dramatic event to wake us up and set us on the right path, and that is what happened to Annandale author, Sue Liu.

In the wake of the devastating 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, Sue found herself rolling up her sleeves and to volunteering to become an Accidental Aid Worker. This experience was the catalyst for the next 12 years of her life, working with displaced refugees and more recently, spending her time helping Sydney homeless communities.

Accidental Aid Worker is a true story of self-discovery and personal determination in the wake of a horrendous natural disaster.

SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)

About Accidental Aid Worker

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Sue Liu — Accidental Aid Worker

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