Peering over his laptop and flashing a radiant smile, Godwin Silayo is preparing to speak to a packed hall in Sydney.
It’s the first time he's been out of his home country - Tanzania - and the bright lights of Australia are proving to be an eye-opener.
“Actually it was pretty amazing to me. I firstly entered the Melbourne city and so many places have so many lights, electricity, it was amazing to me. Actually, everything here is organised, the cities are cleaned. So everything is quite organised compared to my country,” he says.
This well-spoken 21-year-old, who stands before us at a speaking event in March at the North Sydney Community Centre, is garnering sponsor support for the school which changed his life. It’s a stark contrast to the shy boy of a decade earlier, who didn’t know a word of English.
He now finds himself half a world away thanking Australians he’d never met before, for their huge generosity.
