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of HFGK's Trustees.
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Angela
Gorman
- HFGK Chairperson
Angela has been
a qualified Nurse for 30yrs.
Since 1986, she has worked
on the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit at the University
Hospital of Wales in Cardiff
where until January 2008,
she was a Senior Sister.
Angela is currently seconded
to HFGK for 3yrs, a role
facilitated by the
Welsh |
Assembly Government and
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust,
the former organisation
becoming aware in 2007 of
the potential for saving
lives if Angela was able
to undertake her role in
a full time capacity. She
is also a trade unionist
and Chair of Cardiff &
Vale Health Branch of UNISON,
taking a significant role
in negotiations and consultations
with her employer at the
most senior level, including
the Trust Board. Angela
is married to Mike, a civil
servant and they have three
children and 3 grandchildren.
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Carolyn
Maybray-Seymour -
Trustee
Carolyn became
involved with HFGK after
watching the Panorama programme.
To begin with she took a
back seat only becoming
involved with Angela Gorman
when required. She is the
Great Niece of Lord Maybray-King
and raising funds for charity
is a family genetic! |
Carolyn recently took
over running of the website,
Facebook, Twitter and
Blog accounts to help
HFGK achieve a global
on line presence. If you
join any of online acounts
you will see her there.
Last year she hand produced
a traditional mohair bear,
called Ambrose, who is
spending his time visiting
different countries to
bring about further global
awareness and will hopefully
be auctioned in the future
to raise funds.
(If Angela can
part with him!)
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Colin
Williams - Trustee
Colin spent 22 years with
ActionAid International,
a charity dedicated to reducing
poverty around the world.
He was responsible for setting
up country programmes in
Somalia, Uganda and Malawi
then running the Africa
region and finally developing
a new decentralised international
structure. |
He
was part
of the exciting, and eventually
successful, response to
HIV & AIDS in Uganda
and helped set up the now
famous and influential NGO,
TASO, in that country. Since
2003 he has been involved
widely in various trustee,
management and coaching
roles in Africa and the
UK. Colin brings all of
that experience to the Egmont
Trust: an organizational
and management approach
that promotes minimal bureaucracies,
space, trust and focus,
and a belief founded in
practice that the impact
of HIV & AIDS can actually
be reduced substantially,
even eliminated. He went
to school in South Wales,
holds an MA from Canada,
and was awarded an OBE in
2002. |
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Matt
Price - Trustee
is a Broadcast Sound Engineer
based in London
He was one of the first
people to respond to the
Panorama programme 'Dead
Mum's Don't Cry' by contacting
the program and then Dr
Grace Kodindo to find out
what could be done to help,
initially, the mum's of
Chad. He is married with
three sons and in 2009 he
cycled from London to Paris
to raise funds for HFGK.
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Sharon
Chapman Trustee |
Angela
and I had worked together
as Unison Representatives
in Cardiff and Vale Health
Trust for many years. Her
enthusiasm to get involved
was so infectious after
watching Grace Kodindo on
the Parnorama programme
that I very quickly caught
"the bug!" |
I approached our Unison
Branch committee to asked
if they would consider sponsoring
Angela on her visit to meet
Grace in Chad, with a view
to adopting the Hospital
and giving ongoing support,
and was thrilled with the
positive response, and more
thrilled when I became Treasurer
this little Charity. Always
a supporter I had the honour
of being asked to become
Treasurer and Trustee in
the group that was set up
by the women who visited
Grace who became known as
"HFGK" None of
us had any idea when this
started how many hospitals
we would support or how
many lives would be saved!
I am pleased to say that
Angela's passionate enthusiasm
continues and I have never
managed to get rid of my
"bug"
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Mike
Gorman
Trustee
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Michael
Gorman is a recently retired
Civil Servant having worked
in the Inland Revenue for
over 40yrs. |
As
the husband of the Charity's
Chair, he has seen HFGK
grow since 2005 from the
anticipated small organisation
supporting just one Chadian
hospital, to experiencing
the growing pains as HFGK
developed into to the present
effective organisation which
is now expanding its support
to more countries and able
to stand side by side with
the larger agencies. |
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Dr
Grace Kodindo
Patron
Dr Grace Kodindo is our Inspiration.
Chadian by birth she spent
30 years in her home country
working as an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist
following 7years of medical
training in Canada. Grace's
committment to the care of
Chadian women shone through
the BBC PANORAMA programme
"Dead Mums Don't Cry"
which brought such an overwhelming
response from so many UK viewers
and ontinues to be shown throughout
the world. |
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is currently working in New
York with RAISE, an organisation
which aims to raise the standard
of care to women in emergency
settings, but hopes to return
to Chad to work and to rejoin
her family. |
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Kate
Preston
Trustee
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Kate
has many years of journalistic
experience and produces
our hardcopy flyers and
literature. |
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