Interact invited Angela Gorman MBE to school to receive a donation for Life for African Mothers our chosen International Charity to support this school year. The students were delighted when Angela accepted the invitation. A morning of presentations was planned, to include students from all years to hear Angela’s inspiring story.
Angela is the founder and former CEO of LFAM. We learned how in 2005, after a long shift working as a sister on a neonatal ward in Cardiff, she watched a BBC Panorama programme about the risks during childbirth in Africa and was inspired to contact the BBC, which eventually led to the birth of LFAM charity. For over 20 years LFAM has made birth safer for mothers in Sub- Saharan Africa
The students were inspired and moved by Angela’s presentations. With abundant energy and enthusiasm, she answered questions and delighted us with anecdotes about her travels, meeting and hosting Archbishop Desmond Tutu, staying in Nelson Mandela’s house and so on. Students were thrilled to be able to see and touch the MBE medal. But most of all we will remember and continue to reflect on the statistics we learned about the outcomes of pregnancy for women in Africa and the essential work of LFAM to improve them.
Interact will continue to fundraise until the end of the term to be able to meet our target to donate more than £2000 to LFAM towards the medical grade shipment of 180,000 anti-haemorrhage tablets, a free donation to LFAM, which will save up to 56,000 mother’s lives and their babies. There is a link below to find out more about the work of LFAM.
Angela has kindly thanked Interact for their hospitality, here is part of Angela’s detailed thank you letter:
I write to thank you and everyone who contributed so much time and effort to my visit on Tuesday and of course the magnificent fundraising achievement over the past year.
I will let you know when the shipment is leaving the UK for Sierra Leone. The Board are thrilled and very appreciative of PHHS’s contribution to the shipping costs. This is literally First Aid. I will also forward photos of the shipment’s arrival in Freetown.
Thanks to the Interact group for the flowers and card. I am always in awe of youngsters who are dealing with a challenging curriculum, yet find the time to organise fundraising activities, to make the world a better place! Rotary’s slogan this year, is Create Hope in the World. Young people such as PHHS’s, who go above and beyond, do exactly that!
Thank you all again and I will be in touch!
With very best wishes,
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