Christina NobleOBE is an Irish children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded theChristina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989.^[1][2]

Noble was born on 23 December 1944, inThe Liberties section ofDublin, Ireland.^[3] Her mother died when she was ten. She was sent to an orphanage and dishonestly told that her three siblings were dead.^[1][3] She escaped and lived rough in Dublin, where she was gang-raped, which left her pregnant.^[3] Her baby son was adopted, against her will.^[3] After discovering the state had lied about the death of her siblings, Noble located her brother in England and moved there to live with him after she reached 18. This is where she met and married her husband and had three children. She was a victim of domestic violence.^[1][3]

In 1989, after her own children became adults, she visitedVietnam and began to care for homeless children. This action was inspired by a recurring dream she had during theVietnam War.^[3][2] This eventually led her to create the Christina Noble Children's Foundation.^[3][1] To date, she and the Foundation have helped over 700,000 children in Vietnam and Mongolia.^[1][3]

She appeared as a castaway on theBBC Radio programmeDesert Island Discs on 15 June 1997.^[4]

She was the subject of the BritishTV seriesThis Is Your Life in 2002 when she was surprised byMichael Aspel at a fundraising fashion show and auction in central London.^{[citation needed]}

Noble was the subject of a 2014 documentary,In A House that Ceased to Be. It charts her reunion with her remaining siblings after fifty-three years, one brother and two sisters, from whom she had been separated as a child.^[5]

The 2014 feature film about her life,Noble, was directed byStephen Bradley.^[2] In an interview for the film withThe Irish Times she said, "I loved God and Jesus so much. I still do."^[2]

Despite being from Ireland, she was made anOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).^[3][6]

She is a recipient of the 2014Women of the YearPrudential Lifetime Achievement Award.^[7]

• —— (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.

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