Jane Walker (charity founder)
British founder of the Philippine Community Fund
Jane Walker MBE (born c. 1964) is a British charity worker who founded the Philippine Community Fund, which is now called the Purple Community Fund. She founded two schools in the Philippines and a supporting charity in 2002.
She was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to disadvantaged children in the Philippines.
Life
Walker was born in Southampton, England in about 1964. She left home and school when she was sixteen and took various jobs including being a chambermaid. She went into the magazine industry and made some money.
In the 1990s, Walker arrived in the Philippines on holiday and her journey took her by the dump and area of Manila known as Smokey Mountain. She had come to visit a friend after becoming a Christian. Her plan was to take a three-month holiday in the sun with some idealised view of a perfect desert island. As her childhood friend drove her back from the airport she could see the families living in slums by the roadside.
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