01473 824212The Sunshine Children – From Ireland to the East: The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation
This week, we would like to shine the spotlight on a charity very close to our hearts. The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is a charity we wholeheartedly support, and is especially dear to Stuart Morris as his daughter Lucy works at the foundation’s Blue Skies Ger Village orphanage in Mongolia. Through Lucy’s involvement, Stuart has come to learn a lot about the charity and their vital work.
It all started in 1944 in the poverty stricken streets of Dublin, where Christina Noble experienced the difficulties of growing up in poverty first hand. One of three children, Christina was raised by by her mother while her father drank. At 10 she was orphaned believing her siblings were dead and after years of sleeping rough, ran away to England in her late teens.
It wasn’t until she had a vivid dream about a Vietnamese street child that her potential to help unprivileged children was discovered, triggering her move to Vietnam in 1989. The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation was set up in Ho Chi Minh City in 1991 and has had continued success, seeing projects expand into many cities and rural areas in both Vietnam and in 1997 Mongolia.
The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation host a range of projects targeting Healthcare, Education and Community Development. Her passion for children’s rights has helped hundreds of children to live happy, healthier lives through the set up of medical assistance, shelters, bicycle support schemes and rural water projects. The Sunshine programmes which include the Sunshine school, music & arts programmes and sports clubs, encourage children to express themselves through creative outlets like photography lessons, developing their self-confidence, self awareness and teamwork skills.
Through donations, volunteering, fundraising, sponsorship and schemes such as ‘Buy a Child a Gift’ the Christina Noble foundation is able to do it’s great work. Their efforts have been internationally recognised through awards, corporate sponsorship and the making of the film ‘Noble’ (to be released in 2015) which documents Christina’s younger years and how the foundation came to be.
To find out more information and to see examples of the amazing work The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation does follow these links:
https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaNobleChildrensFoundationInt
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