Fast Forward to 2012

The desire had never gone away, it had just taken a backseat for the past 20 years.  

Life has been kind to me, it's blessed me with two amazing daughters, and though I'm now single and 40+, I still know I have a life far more fortunate than many people are ever blessed with.  But the desire to help was still there, and that spark was becoming a fire.


Inspirational people were entering my life with increasing regularity and showing me what could be done, I just knew I couldn't sit back and do nothing, I had to make a difference.  Initially I started to look for ways to help closer to home, but with alarming frequency my offers of aide were rejected.


I began to research global organisations that offered aide to African countries, I had two specific target groups I felt may benefit from the skills I had to offer.  I could either help the very young who can not help themselves, or nurture and work as a mother figure to young girls on the verge of womanhood, many of whom have been orphaned, abandoned or much much worse.  I was sure my ten years as an ECE teacher and my twenty years raising two incredible young woman must should surely count for something. 


So many of these organisations seemed to be US based, and whilst I may be wrong, it appeared to me that many of these organisations seemed to not only offer "aide" but also be money making ventures cloaked in the guise of charity.  I didn't want to be part of such a scheme.  I wanted to help the children of Africa, not line the pockets of a self serving entrepreneur.  


I was convinced an opportunity would present itself sooner or later... and sure enough it did..