06/08/2026
Gem Munro has devoted his life and career to improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged people across Canada and abroad.
Pursuit of this objective carried him into residence in unfortunate communities across most of Canada, before carrying him overseas 🌎
He co-founded Amarok Society: Start With Mothers, providing education programmes to the very poor in Bangladesh and India.
📝Gem is a bestselling author and artist whose new book, And Where the Wind Spun Them, follows the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little
brother who struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of very poor children in the world today.
For their work, Gem and his wife, Dr Tanyss Munro, were recipients of Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals
To support their work visit their page 🙏🏼