READY TO LEARN: The children of the village Amy Dallison is helping to build a school. Former Taranaki defence lawyer Amy Dallison from Waverley who left for overseas three years ago, is now the project administrator of a community school programme on an island in the Philippines. A year ago when Amy started working for a French property developer selling high end apartments in at a ski resort in northern Japan, her boss told her about a charity school project he was funding.