Founder
Susan Barton AM
Founder and Executive Director
Susan Barton is a Melbourne woman with a passion for young people. With six children of her own, she has spent the last 20 years providing homes for damaged young people so that healing can take place. She is the founder of Lighthouse Foundation, one of Australia's finest examples of social entrepreneurship.
Susan began her work 23 years ago. While volunteering in an orphanage in Sri Lanka, the direction of Susan's life changed when a seriously ill baby she had been nursing in the afternoon died later that night. On her return to Australia, Susan began fostering children in her own home. In 1991 with great support from the business community, the Lighthouse Foundation was formed to support and expand Susan's work.
Susan's vision is to establish Lighthouses across Australia, all offering the unique Lighthouse Model of Care. No one doubts she will do it.
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