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Christina Noble Children’s Foundation

The Christina Noble Children's Foundation (CNCF) is dedicated to serving the physical, medical, educational and emotional needs of vulnerable children.

About Christina Noble Children’s Foundation


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The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation (CNCF) mitigates poverty and hardship by offering essential, grassroots humanitarian services to communities in Vietnam and Mongolia. These societies have been profoundly impacted by extensive periods of poverty and the enduring effects of war.

Christina Noble, driven by her personal experiences of hardship, moved to Vietnam in 1989 and started to work with local children living on the streets in dire poverty. Recognising the urgent need, she formally established CNCF in Ho Chi Minh City in 1991. Christina's own impoverished childhood, enduring years of adversity in orphanages and homelessness in Dublin, fuelled her passion for children’s rights worldwide, a cause she has committed her life to. In 1997, Christina travelled to Mongolia where she witnessed first-hand the deprivation and poverty remaining after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the country's socio-economic collapse. She responded by extending CNCF’s operations to aid the numerous children living on the deteriorating, freezing streets of Ulaanbaatar.

Your Impact

In the past 34 years, CNCF’s unique and progressive education, healthcare and community development programmes have positively impacted the lives of over one million children. CNCF continues to partner with some of the world's most disadvantaged communities, including girls and boys susceptible to exploitation and young individuals with disabilities residing in remote areas.

A British Registered, third-generation family foundation, CNCF is now supported and led by Vietnamese and Mongolian community leaders, many of whom were beneficiaries of the foundation during their own difficult childhoods. Christina and her foundation's continuous efforts to raise awareness about the plight of children in need worldwide remain key in spurring social change and reform in Vietnam and Mongolia and have concurrently influenced shifts in government attitudes.