Christina Noble

Christina Noble, OBE, is an Irish children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989.

Christina Noble

OBE
Born (1944-12-23) 23 December 1944
Dublin, Ireland
OrganizationChristina Noble Children's Foundation
Known forFounder of the Christina Noble Children's Foundation, Noble and helping children in the Vietnam War
Children4
Relatives3 siblings

Noble was born on 23 December 1944, in Dublin, Ireland.[1] Her mother died when she was ten. She was sent to an orphanage and dishonestly told that her three siblings were dead.[1] She escaped and lived rough in Dublin, where she was gang-raped.[1] Her baby son was adopted, against her will.[1] After discovering the state had lied about the death of her siblings, Christina located her brother in England moved there to live with him after she turned 18. This is where she met and married her husband and had three children, Helenita, Nicolas and Androula. She was a victim of domestic violence.[1]

In 1989, she visited Vietnam and began to care for homeless children, after a recurring dream, during the Vietnam War.[1] This eventually led her to create the Christina Noble Children's Foundation.[1] To date, she and the Foundation have helped over 700,000 children in Vietnam and Mongolia.[1]

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 15 June 1997.[2] Despite being from Ireland, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).[1][3] She is a recipient of the 2014 Women of the Year Prudential Lifetime Achievement Award.[4]

A film about her, Noble, was released 8 May 2015. The director was Stephen Bradley.

Bibliography
  • —— (1994). Nobody's Child. Grove. ISBN 978-0802115515.
  • —— (1994). Bridge Across My Sorrows. John Murray. ISBN 978-0719553615.
  • —— (1998). Mama Tina. John Murray. ISBN 978-0719556357.

References
  1. "Christina Noble". Women's Museum of Ireland. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  2. "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Christina Noble". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. O'Neill, Luke (1 August 2011). "Christina Noble to mark 10th year of charity". Irish Echo. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  4. http://www.womenoftheyear.co.uk/2014-awards/


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