Christina Noble with Micheál O'Mathúna. Christina shares on Forgiveness, Her Life, Her Family, Cancer, Transformation and Living With No Regrets.

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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.

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Christina tells us:

✓  How she is not bitter and angry about the things that happened to her and how she overcame them.

✓  How when her brother came to find her at the convent and he was told she was dead. 

✓  How she had cancer and fought through it.

✓  How you can hate the world and society and blame everybody or you use your terrible experiences in a very constructive way in the world.

✓  How she is a big lover of Barry's tea and Cork in Ireland.  

✓  And how she will never regret the road that she took because over 700,000 kids have their life back in real terms. 

Christina Noble is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children's Foundation. Christina's passion for children's rights is rooted in her own upbringing. She knows what it's like to be young, homeless and desperate. Born in Ireland into the slums of Dublin on 23 December 1944, she and five siblings were raised by their mother while their father frittered away what little money the family had on drinking in pubs.

The death of her mother when Christina was 10 years old brought about the separation of Christina and her three younger siblings, as they

were all sent to different orphanages. Christina spent four desperate years in the west of Ireland in an institution being led to believe that her brothers and sisters were dead. Her escape brought her to Phoenix Park in Dublin where she slept in a park in a hole in the ground she’d dug herself.

At the age of 18 Christina ran away to England to be with her older brother. This is where she met and married her husband and had three children.

It was during particularly low ebb in her life around 1971 that she had a dream about Vietnam.

"I don't know why I dreamed about Vietnam; perhaps it was because the country was so much in the news at the time. In the dream, naked

Vietnamese children were running down a dirt road fleeing from a napalm bombing. The ground under the children was cracked and coming apart and the children were reaching to me. One of the girls had a look in her eyes that implored me to pick her up and protect her and take her to safety. Above the escaping children was a brilliant white light that contained the word 'Vietnam'."

This was a dream which she would one day triumphantly fulfil, albeit 20 years later. In 1989, with the goal to assist children in need, Christina arrived in Vietnam.

“My decision was made. Here, my dream, my destiny, would be fulfilled. Here the pain and the sorrow and the anger of my childhood in

Ireland would be resolved. I would work with the street children of Ho Chi Minh City. I would work with the ill and the unwanted, with the lonely and the misbegotten, with the throwaway children of this war torn country. I would work with the children who were living as I had so long ago in Dublin”.

An award film, written and directed by Stephen Bradley, NOBLE tells the true story of a funny, feisty and courageous, Christina Noble, who overcomes a harsh childhood to find her destiny on the streets of Saigon, fourteen years after the end of the war. The film captures the drama of a life that has culminated in Christina Noble helping almost a million street-children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia.

The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training and job placement, as well as children at risk of sexual and economic exploitation. The Foundation seeks to maximise the potential of each child. This is accomplished within the context of the family and the community whenever possible and always with love and respect for the dignity of each child as an individual.

The Foundation is involved in numerous activities including medical care, educational assistance, community development, water tank provision, establishing and developing educational & medical facilities, revolving loan programmes, emergency assistance to children and their families, and shelters for all disadvantaged and street children, to name a few.

Since inception, Christina's Foundation has established 120 projects and impacted the lives of over 700,000 of the poorest, most vulnerable children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia.

Christina still remains the principal driving force and inspiration and retains close personal contact with the children.

List of Awards received by Christina Noble and her Foundation-please visit - http://goo.gl/nB6Wj5

For further information, please visit the Foundation website -  http://goo.gl/QYjDOi