Purpose/Mission: "We respond to, and provide for, hardship communities - liaising with them to identify and enable immediate and ensuing needs to look after their own."
About
Who We Are:
LandAid Ltd is a charitable organization, founded by determined volunteers, comprising Australian businesses, agencies, artists and committed individuals with a collective goal of aiding and supporting immediate and ensuing needs of hardship communities and regions. Our goal is to re-enable communities to ‘fish for themselves’ – not merely provide ‘fish for the day’.
LandAid liaises with and provides assistance for the unique needs of rural hardship communities - rather than individuals. Assistance may be given via direct funding or direct sponsorship/partnerships with businesses and/or other charities. Monies generated and collected become part of a charitable fund overseen by a prudent, appropriately skilled and qualified board of directors and distributed to eligible communities based on the severity of need as defined by LandAid Grant guidelines. It is also expected that monies will be available for appropriate research into more effective ways and means of managing and utilizing land/water.
Chris Buchanan | Christopher Fisher | Kay Matthias | Abi Spehr
Chris Buchanan – LandAid Trustee
Chris brings extensive, global financial experience, abilities and possibilities to LandAid. His passionate rural roots and perpetual ‘thinking outside the box’ ensures excellent mentoring and guidance as LandAid expands and navigates new and promising waters for its initiatives.
Chris’s Corporate management experience includes: Senior Management with Coca-Cola Bottlers, and Vegetable Oils Australia; Senior Product Manager of The Cooperative Building Society (The Adelaide Bank and sister Financial Institutions); Group Marketing Manager of Bennett and Fisher (National rurally-linked associated companies including RM Williams); and Commercial Finance Brokerage specializing in International Project Funding throughout Australasia, China and Indonesia. Because of the need to adapt to recent global financial crises, Chris has refocused his skills towards raising project funding.
Jac Dalton was born and raised in North Carolina before calling Adelaide home ten years ago. He has always been a world-class performer and musician but supplements this passion with his love of being both a Chiropractor and Functional Neurologist – treating many referred local cases too complicated or difficult for other Doctors to effectively handle. His schooling enables him to be useful in many arenas as he holds undergrad degrees in Human Anatomy, Marine Biology and Oceanography, a Doctorate in Chiropractic and a Diplomate (PhD) in Functional Neurology.
His entertainment background includes working with many of America’s noted celebrities (Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Suzanne Somers, etc) as well as touring the world singing and dancing in musical theatre shows where much of his concern for the plight of fellow man was awakened. Along with the good communication skills gleaned from acting, he comes from a long line of clergy who taught him to be more concerned with prudence and honesty than doctrine. Recently, Jac completed writing and producing a ground-breaking album featuring mates from some of Australia’s most successful classic rock bands – representing the first time in Australian music history that an all-star band has backed a rising artist. This is the background from whence the rallying song for LandAid, ‘Can Almost Taste the Rain’, stems.
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Jac’s determination and perseverance with conceiving and launching the LandAid initiative stems from two things: growing up with family and humanitarian values recognizing need and opportunity to help those in-need - the world becoming a bit better place for the effort - and the fact that in the past year he’s taken on the responsibility of looking after the well-being of several families within his practice who have literally had to walk off the farms they’ve tilled for generations.
