She speaks five languages, has 12 siblings, already carries a freelance press pass and collects awards and titles like they're shop-a-dockets. She is 19 years old.Tshibanda Gracia Ngoy's achievements have been piling up since she arrived in Australia six years ago, and yesterday she collected the greatest recognition yet: the Australian Young People's Human Rights Medal.On study exchange in Sheffield, England, the University of Wollongong student called on her 18-year-old sister, Angelique, to accept the award in Sydney."I'm very proud of my sister," Angelique said."She's very busy, but she always makes time for everything."Gracia's community work began at 14, shortly after her arrival in Australia in July 2005.Her family had fled tribal conflict in the Republic of Congo when she was 10 years old and, after a trying period in South Africa, they arrived in Wollongong as refugees.She was offered free homework tutoring by Illawarra refugee assistance group SCARF and simultaneously signed up to mentor others.Alongside her schoolwork, Gracia, of Berkeley, spent 1? years studying a journalism correspondence course, earning an accredited freelance journalist's pass at 15.She became a caseworker for refugee families, a youth motivational speaker and is a member of the Illawarra Regional Advisory Council and NSW Multicultural Youth Network.In 2008 and 2009, she won leadership awards from the Australian Defence Force and in 2010, she was NSW CRC Young Volunteer of the Year.In January this year, she was declared Wollongong Young Citizen of the Year.Gracia is studying a double degree in commerce and communications in the hope of entering journalism and, one day, working for the United Nations."As I grew up, I really wanted to express myself, especially the injustices and the wrongdoings I saw going on around me and I thought, 'journalism has to be the way'," she told a university reporter.