About Us

Friends of African Nursing

Friends of African Nursing was started as an organisation by two individuals, who had family contacts in Africa and due to their professional nursing backgrounds, had taken an interest in the health systems in African countries which they had visited whilst on holiday.

It was apparent to them both separately, that the privilege of the healthcare environment in which they both worked in the UK - which offered continuing education, ready access to journals, speciality (perioperative) education and a professional association (in which they were closely involved, at home) as a ready made network... was indeed a huge privilege which should be shared.

So Lesley Fudge and Kate Woodhead raised some funds, used whatever contacts they could make, find or encourage and the first course in Uganda became a reality! Thanks to all those early supporters, we were on the road to many more travels and sharing experiences and knowledge with our African Nursing colleagues albeit on a very small scale.

Growth and development

The organisation continued to grow and thanks to continuing financial support and encouragement particularly from Denis Robson from Johnson and Johnson Professional Export, from these small beginnings gained charity status in 2006. We are now on a new growth curve with putting the charity framework together with the guidance and support of the voluntary Board of Trustees, volunteers and many individual and corporate supporters.

Annual Report

The Annual Reports record our activities and will continue to do so. We will continue to grow our activities and ensure that in a voluntary capacity, we devote time, commitment and enthusiasm to assisting colleagues in Africa.

The enthusiasm of our supporters and Members is wonderful. The Newsletter is now available on line, and we hope will continue to be produced at least twice during the year, records some of the events and activities of FoAN.

Membership Scheme

The Membership scheme is a means for supporters to stay in touch with all our activities. See the Membership area of the website.

Sales

See our brochure for all the different cards, brooches and T-shirts which support our work, enabling us to do more for our African colleagues.

The Board of Trustees
Friends of African Nursing
February 08