Growing up in South Africa, 49-year-old Yolandi Vermaak had always loved animals. “I longed to be a vet, but such is life, I ended up becoming a project manager instead,” she tells WHO.
Her compassion for animals never wavered and in 2013, when her husband Reynier, daughter Kaylor, now 19, and son, Aiden, now 18, emigrated to Canberra, Australia, she got to hold a wombat joey at a zoo in Batemans Bay, NSW.
