About the Anita Goulden Trust
The Anita Goulden Trust is a UK based charity which fully financially supports the Anita Goulden Home for disabled, abandoned, abused and orphaned children and young people in Piura, Peru. The Anita Goulden Home provides full care for 38 orphaned, abandoned and abused children and young adults, many with severe physical and mental disabilities, who were living in extreme poverty.
The Anita Goulden Home is the only charity which helps children with disabilities in the North of Peru. The Anita Goulden Trust, currently chaired by Roger Brown, was set up in 1987 when some British friends heard of the appalling penury of Anita and her children. After an excellent response from an article by Nicholas Shakespeare and a film shown on Granada television, the Trust was turned into a charity in 1991.
The Trust administrates donations made by people from all walks of life who have been inspired by the tremendous courage and humanity of Anita Goulden who sadly died in February 2002. The Peruvian and UK committees work closely together to maintain the highest standards of care for the children and transparency of funds.
We keep expenses to a minimum: no-one is paid to administer the charity. All of your donations go directly to the Anita Goulden Home in Peru. The main expenses in the U.K are for essentials such as stamps and envelopes.
The Anita Goulden Trustees
Roger Brown, the Chairman, was a British diplomat for 40 years, including time as Ambassador in Nicaragua and Consul in Sao Paulo. He then spent 5 years as Assistant Director of Leonard Cheshire International, with responsibility for the development of new services around the world, particularly in Latin America. He now lives in London though still travels regularly to South America.
David V Thomas OBE is Director of International Corporate Banking at Lloyds TSB Bank. He lived and worked in the USA, Europe and Latin America between 1977 and 2000 and now lives in London. He is Vice Chairman of Canning House, a member of the Board of Governors of the English-Speaking Union and a board member of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.
Mark O'Kelly spent 4 years in Peru in the late 1980s, including 6 months with Anita in Piura. He now lives in south west London with his wife and two children and works for Childhood First, which provides care, education and treatment to children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Annabel Buchan MBE was born in Norfolk several years ago and now lives in Fulham, London where she administers the Trust. Annabel became aware of Anita Goulden in 1979 when she read an article by Nicholas Shakespeare about Anita's work in Peru and was immediately an enthusiastic helper before the Trust was set up. In 1991 she was invited to become the Administrator and a Trustee. In 2004 Annabel was awarded the MBE "for services to disadvantaged children in Peru."
Sallie Morgan is a retired teacher of modern languages ( French and German) with a keen interest in Spanish. She has travelled extensively in South America and during a visit to Piura in 1999, was immensely impressed by Anita's personality and self-appointed work. Sallie was with Anita when she died in 2002. The huge demonstrations of love and gratitude towards Anita displayed by countless families, many in desperate poverty, doubled my resolve to continue supporting Anita's children.
Leonora Borg has worked with children and young people worldwide, including Japan, Bosnia and the UK. She worked at the Anita Goulden Home from 2004-2006, helping to restructure the Home. Leonora currently chairs the children's charity Trust in Children which helps children with education world-wide and is Services Manager of London-based charity Family Friends.
Emma Raffo is a new trustee, more details about her Emma and her work will be posted soon.