The Georgatos Foundation
After four decades of service to others, Gerry Georgatos established The Georgatos Foundation, 2021. In April 2019, Gerry was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.
The Foundation is dedicated to advancing social and public welfare, working alongside the impoverished and marginalised with socio-economic and psychosocial supports. The Foundation supports individuals to education, employment, to improving their circumstance.
The Foundation is focused on transforming the lives of disadvantaged and underprivileged people.
The Foundation also seeks to promote and provide access to justice of underprivileged people – families, children and young people – and also on behalf of underprivileged communities.
The Foundation sees redress and relieving needs of victims of human rights abuses through the provision of legal and arbitrative services and social justice advocacy and education. Awareness of human rights issues promotes access to justice.
The inaugural Chair of The Georgatos Foundation is renowned lawyer, Stewart Levitt, who among his many justice campaigns, won on behalf of the Palm Island Community, a $30 million settlement, for injustices inflicted upon the island community by the Queensland Police and the Queensland Government, after the horrific custodial death of Mulrunji Doomadgee in 2004.
The Foundation’s inaugural Public Officer is lawyer, Dana Levitt.
The inaugural Board includes Gerry, his daughter Connie Georgatos, and Gerry’s partner, Connie’s mother, Jennifer Kaeshagen.
The fledgling Foundation’s inaugural services to humanity have seen two shipments of 167 rough terrain children’s wheelchairs to Indonesia’s Lombok – with rough terrain children’s wheelchairs also reaching Indonesia’s Sumbawa. A shipment also reached children in remote regions of Sierra Leone.
August 2, 2021 – The Foundation sponsored five youth – in Perth – to training to employment through the registered training provider, Skills Training and Engineering Services.
Two youth sponsored by the Foundation on July 26 commenced University studies.
