Christina Noble runs a medical centre for abandoned and malnourished children in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon.  Her organization, The Christina Noble Children's Foundation has expanded its programs into Mongolia providing many needed services including providing fully furnished Gers for homeless families.

Christina was born in the Dublin slums in 1944. Her mother died when she was ten and she and her three siblings were split up and sent to a separate orphanages.

She spent four years institutionalised in the west of Ireland, believing her brother and sisters to be dead, before escaping back to Dublin to live on the streets. She was gang raped, became pregnant and had a baby boy who was taken for adoption against her will.

At the age of 18 she ran away to join her brother in England, where she later married and had three children. Over the next decade she endured domestic abuse, was beaten, miscarried, suffered bouts of depression and a nervous breakdown.

In the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War dragged on, she had a dream. In it, the children of Vietnam begged her for help. In 1989, still haunted by that dream, she finally arrived in Ho Chi Minh city to set up her Children’s Foundation to help children in need of medical care and protection from exploitation.  Read more about Christina and The Christina Noble Charitable Foundation at www.cncf.org and learn how you can help.