A DOCUMENTARY ON Christina Noble aired on RTÉ last night, giving people an insight into the inspirational woman who has helped so many children over the years.
Full of heart, the documentary explored Noble’s past and particularly her own troubled childhood which inspired her to work with street children and orphans to give them a better chance at life.
The documentary shows Noble visiting the institutions where she and her siblings were placed after being taken away from their alcoholic father.
Noble was just 12 years old when she and her brother and two sisters were separated. She says her family has never been the same – they have lived apart for more than 50 years.
“To this present day, even now if we’re together as a family, there’s something different, there’s a big shield. There’s fear I think, I don’t know what it is, it’s something you can’t let go of.”
As Noble returns to an orphanage where her sisters lived, her anger and emotion at the horrors they endured is clearly still raw:
The silence, the humiliation, the deprivation the isolation and the massive unspeakable acts and loneliness that went with it…
Though it gives an insight into the huge challenges Noble faced growing up, the documentary’s main focus is on her incredible ability to turn that into something positive with the work she has done.
And people watching last night were overcome with emotion:
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