After 20 years of hard work as a Speech Therapist in several Special Schools in Edinburgh, Anne retired – or so she thought. She hadn’t reckoned on reading about us in the monthly Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Bulletin half way across the world! We were thrilled when she accepted our invitation to come as a volunteer for six months and overwhelmed when she returned twice in the next two years.

Her fourth trip is scheduled in the current year (we think she likes us). Her contributions to our understanding of and skills in communication and language development have been unparalleled. Anne is the mother of three grown up children – Catherine, Laura and Tom – and the grandmother of three lovely little girls.