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Every year the developing world suffers from the needless death of 15 million young children and the full growth and development of 800 million children is endangered by hunger and disease. And this situation has shown little improvement over the past 30 years. The answer will not come from technology but from a change in human nature.
Stanley Barnes was for over forty years in the dairy and food industries, half of them spent in Third World countries.
In 1936 he was appointed first manager to set up the Goat’s Milk Pasteurisation Scheme for the Government of Malta. This was introduced to combat the problem of undulant fever. In 1941 he transferred to the Royal Air Force in Malta and was Mentioned in Despatches for his work as Command Fuel Officer. While in Malta he married Miss Joyce Barnes, the Assistand Matron of K.G.V Mission Hospital.
After the war he served as Dairy Development Adviser to the Government of Pakistan and as Project Manager for the Australian Dairy Produce Board when he was responsible for recombined milk operations in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia.
From 1973 to 1984 he resided mainly in India, travelling frequently to Europe and Australia and on three occasions to Zimbabwe. On these visits he consulted with others also involved in finding an answer to malnutrition in the Third World. He now resides in Australia where he continues to write and to travel.
His services to the dairy industry in South East Asia were recognized when he was awarded the MBE and when he received the Gold Medal of the Australian Society of Dairy Technology.
Mr Barnes was born and educated in Britain. After the war he moved to Australia. His wife died in Indonesia. He has two children and eight grandchildren.