Leading Australian entrepreneur and Boost Juice founder Janine Allis has been named Australia for UNHCR’s newest Ambassador, with a mission to raise support for the UN Refugee Agency’s life-saving protection and emergency support in humanitarian crises.

Allis will be the leading voice for Australia for UNHCR’s new Leading Women Fund, which is specifically aimed at engaging women professionals and change-makers to support refugee women and girls.

To kick off her ambassadorship, Allis will travel with Australia for UNHCR to Jordan in mid-March to meet Syrian women and families and learn about their experiences and refugee journeys.

Please join us for lunch with Janine, who will share with you stories from her time with refugee families in the Jordanian capital, Amman and how UNHCR’s innovative delivery of aid is empowering women to create better futures their families and communities.

We hope you can join us to learn about the work of UNHCR and how you too can take action for the 80% of refugees who are women and children.

On joining as Ambassador, Janine Allis said: “I am dedicated to the rights of women and girls everywhere and can’t wait to meet and learn from these incredibly resilient Syrian refugee women living in Jordan.”

As part of this initiative we have developed an exciting new App - Connecting Worlds - that will give supporters an opportunity to connect directly with refugee women and their families who receive support from UNHCR on the ground. This is a world first and we will be offering a select group of supporters the opportunity to trial this app and connect to refugee women across the world.

If you too would like to become a leader of this new collective and collaborative giving program with the opportunity to connect directly with refugee women via an innovative new platform, please enquire about becoming a ‘Founding 50’ member of the Leading Women Fund by emailing women@unrefugees.org.au