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Dr Thomas Michael Kevin Elmore-Meegan (born 26 March 1959, Liverpool), known as Michael Meegan, is a British-born Irish humanitarian, founder of several charities and non-governmental organisations, and a specialist in clinical epidemiology and international health. Meegan co-founded the International Community for Relief Of Starvation and Suffering (ICROSS), an International aid agency operating in East Africa that describes itself as "a small international organisation working to fight poverty and disease in the poorest parts of the world. and closed down in 2012. ==Background== Born in Liverpool of Irish and French parentage, Elmore-Meegan spent his childhood between Grenoble in the French Alps, Freshfield, Lancashire, and at Rishworth, Yorkshire. He spoke French and Latin by the age of ten. He was educated in Vaughan House and Bishops Court Prep School, Heathfield, Yorkshire. He was Baptised by John Heenan, later to be John Carmel Cardinal Heenan. He was inspired by the work of the Mill Hill Missionaries from an early age and had a passion for Africa and Asia. In 1971, he moved to Dublin, attending Terenure College, Dublin, run by the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, where he graduated in 1977. He entered the Roman Catholic Society of White Fathers - The Missionaries of Africa/Les Pères Blanc - hoping to become a missionary. Due to a serious burn injury and keloid damage he left the White Fathers, instead completing a degree in Philosophy at the Jesuit Institute at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy (awarded by the Holy See), following which he entered the novitiate in the Society of Jesus. Later he took an M.Sc in Community Health from Trinity College TCD, Dublin (1988, Belief systems of the Maasai on diarrhoeal illness). His current research is a furthrt doctoral study in Tampere University, Finland where he is finalising a PhD in International Health. After ecclesiastical training earning an Honours degree in Philosophy, Elmore-Meegan moved to Kenya at aged 20, where he settled in the Northern territories of the Great Rift Valley and began to perform aid work among the local people. This was largely funded by his own inheritance and by close personal friends. In 1978 his early drafts of spiritual axioms, ''All Shall be Well'', later to be a series of reflections on poverty published by Collins (Fount Religious paperbacks). He began sculpting at an early age, mostly working in clay and bronze. He still does private commissions in bronze. Since 1980, he has suffered a series of serious illnesses in Africa, ranging from Cerebral Malaria and amoebic and bacillic dystentry to Cholera. In 1992 and again in 1999 he received the Catholic last rites on three occasions. He has never married, and in the mid-1980s he adopted two Kenyans; a Samburu, Lemoite Lemako and a Maasai, Saruni OleKoitee OleLengeny, later to become assistant CEO of ICROSS Kenya, a role he held until July 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Elmore-Meegan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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