Board of Directors and Staff
Paul Hanrahan – Executive Director
Paul has been married 32 years and has been Executive Director of FLI for nearly 7 years. Paul has also been the Sydney coordinator of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants for 20+ years. Paul has travelled around Australia helping other groups establishing Helpers’ prayer groups outside abortion clinics. This usually entails meetings with Police and Local Council officials, often with a lawyer and running seminars and Q and A sessions.
Paul is a veteran Australian pro-lifer. He has tirelessly taken the message of the dignity of life to the streets of Sydney for over 20 years, especially through his peaceful vigils outside abortion mills with the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants , pouring all of his energies into the cause for life, which is becoming more urgent than ever in Australia.
David Bruggeman – Chairman of the Board / Director
David is the cheerful manager of the general store and post office in the quaint village of Wingello in the Southern Highlands of NSW. He is also a lecturer in Accounting and Business at UTS in Sydney and the manager of his own company EASI (Electronic Accounting Systems Integration). David and his wife Lana have eight children – the youngest is 3, the eldest 24 – and they are passionate home-schoolers. After a time living in Sydney and the Blue Mountains, they now enjoy NSW country life while David travels to clients across the country. His greatest inspiration is St. Thomas More, and he has volunteered at FLI since 1997.
Maria Menkens – Director
