Breadline Africa’s trustee turns 90
by Marianna Boguslavsky
Frances Greathead is one very special lady. Not only is she one of the founders and trustees of Breadline Africa but she is a 90 year old woman who still loves to party. Frances Greathead, descendant of a long line of Norfolk Bedingfelds, recently celebrated her 90th birthday at Oxburgh Hall, the family home which is now run by the National Trust. I was lucky enough to have lunch with her earlier this year and I can definitely say she knows how to entertain in style.
Frances is a woman who has continuously been involved in poverty alleviation issues. It was in 1993 that she decided to set up Breadline Africa to help ease poverty in South Africa. “The ethos is very much that it’s better to let the African person decide what they need and then help them,” she says. She believes that you need to do what you can to help, no matter how enormous the scale of poverty is in South Africa.
