Khoa Do

Khoa Do
Khoa Do at the Australian of the Year Awards
Born	1978 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Occupation	Film Director, Screenwriter and Speaker

Khoa Do (Vietnamese: Đỗ Khoa,  listen), born in 1978, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, is a film director, screenwriter, professional speaker and philanthropist who received the Young Australian of the Year Award in 2005. The Do family left Vietnam in 1981 and arrived in Sydney as Vietnamese refugees in 1983. His brother is the comedian Anh Do. Khoa received a scholarship to attend St Aloysius' College in Milson's Point, graduating in 1996 and went on to study Law and Arts at the University of Sydney

Do was named the 2005 Young Australian of the Year for his "leadership, compassion, and will to inspire and inform Australians on issues that affect our communities."

Khoa Do has been active in helping the under-privileged in South-Western Sydney, especially the Vietnamese community. In 2000, he was awarded the Young Vietnamese-Australian of the Year Award for his services in drama and working with youths in Sydney's south-west. A year later, Do commenced voluntary work with disadvantaged kids at Cabramatta's Open Family Youth Social Services Centre. He was asked to teach film-making to these 'at risk' youths and saw no better way to teach them than to go ahead and make a film with them. While at University Do worked as an English teacher and job-seeking-skills volunteer among the youth living in Cabramatta. For his efforts, he was awarded the 2001 Young Citizen of the Year Award (Bankstown City) and in 2003, he also received a Centenary Medal.