Rosemary Bidwell, a daughter of a Baptist Minister, was born in Somerset. A former nurse, college lecturer and bridal designer, she owned her highly successful bridal business ‘Exclusive by Design’ in Warwick where she became the first woman Rotarian. It was through her work with Rotary International, she went out to Sierra Leone in 2003 to see the devastation caused by the civil war. This was to change her life. She took a step of faith, sold her business and set up her own charity devoting the rest of her life to caring for orphaned and abandoned street children in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
This is a story of triumph over adversity – an absorbing, thought-provoking, sometimes amusing but often heart-rending account of British businesswoman Rosemary Bidwell’s struggles to set up and run an orphanage in Sierra Leone, West Africa, for orphaned street children – youngsters whose pare...
