The night of dreams | Beny Bol OAM

Beny is President of the Queensland African Communities Council (QACC) – an umbrella organisation that represents more than 75,000 people and organisations of African descent in QLD.

Since assuming the QACC’s leadership in 2019, Beny’s leadership established many specialised departments within the QACC and these include African Youth Support Council (AYSC) which currently runs programs inside the Brisbane Youth Detention Centre, West Moreton Youth Detention Centre, and School-based early intervention’s programs across Greater Brisbane LGAs, and for the first open 3 new African Youth Community Centres at Redbank Plains, Moorooka and Geebung.

They also run Correctional rehabilitation program, Court Support and Community Outreach Program, Multicultural Women’s Health and Wellbeing, Department of Research and Evaluation, African Languages Department, Community Social Enterprise, and Sports Department, Law and Employment Department.