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Trustee
Information
The
Revd. Canon Pat Atkinson MBE
Pat
lives in Brundall and is married with two grown up children
and two grandchildren.
She
first visited India in 1990, and after two further visits
she gave up full time work to spend several weeks at a time
(working alone) developing our projects in India. In those
first 9 years of development work she lived in appalling conditions
with the people she was helping because she would not have
been trusted and accepted by the local communities if she
had stayed in the good class hotels available. This resulted
in several life threatening illnesses including malaria and
dysentery.
In 2006, after 31 visits Pat consolidated work with the Indian
Trust (which was formed in 1990) and with our newer work in
Sri Lanka. Between visits Pat, who is also a trained nurse,
continues to work as a Chaplain at the Norfolk and Norwich
University Hospital and is also a voluntary Chaplain at a
Learning Disabilities Unit. She finds time, as an accredited
teacher/counsellor, to arrange bereavement care groups and
to date has set up 111.
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