Meet The trustees
All our trustees are volunteers working tirelessly to raise funds, raise awareness of orphans in Nepal and help the children directly. They are all helping fund the administrative costs of the charity and most of them are sponsoring some of our children.
Florence Krief
Chair, Founder LBU, Co-founder CANFlorence established LBU in 2002 after volunteering in an orphanage in Kathmandu. She funded the home herself for a year and then established CAN in London with Simon Yun-Farmbrough. Today, Florence is a full-time headhunter in the City, where she used to work for many years as an investment banker. She oversees the management of the orphanage very closely as well as fundraising for CAN. Florence visits the children three to four times a year and is very close to them.
Simon Yun-Farmbrough
Treasurer, Co-Founder CANFlorence established LBU in 2002 after volunteering in an orphanage in Kathmandu. She funded the home herself for a year and then established CAN in London with Simon Yun-Farmbrough. Today, Florence is a full-time headhunter in the City, where she used to work for many years as an investment banker. She oversees the management of the orphanage very closely as well as fundraising for CAN. Florence visits the children three to four times a year and is very close to them.
Franco Mancini
Trustee, Sports Events and FundraisingFranco became a trustee of CAN after completing an amazing fundraising trip by motorbike from Siena, Italy, to Kathmandu and volunteering for one month at LBU in 2010. Since then, he has become one of our biggest fundraisers and travels regularly to Kathmandu where he is also the sponsor of one of our children. Franco is a broker in the City and has a number of other business interests.
Laure Morsy
Trustee, European FundraisingLaure has been the financial sponsor of one of the LBU 2 children since 2009. She regularly visits the children in Kathmandu and volunteered as a CAN trustee in 2013. She is involved in fundraising activities in France and Luxembourg. After 5 years spent in Luxembourg as Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors of BGL BNP Paribas, she returned to Paris mid-2018 to take the position of Chief Resources Officer of BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking division. She has spent her whole career in finance at Société Générale and BNP Paribas. As former President and founder of the BNP Paribas women’s association, MixCity, she is also an active advocate of diversity and gender equality.
Sarah McVay
Trustee, Schools and Volunteers LiaisonSarah worked with Florence early in her career and was inspired to travel to Nepal to raise money for Child Action Nepal in 2007. She was amazed by the positive impact the loving home had on the children at LBU and has been sponsoring one of the LBU children since 2009. She joined as a Trustee in 2024 alongside working as a headhunter in London and taking care of her young family.
Colleen Baldwin
TrusteeColleen has travelled widely during her career in news and broadcasting. She spent six weeks in Kathmandu in 2010 with the children and staff of LBU, videoing and photographing life inside the homes as well as the poverty outside. The appalling conditions endured by street children sleeping rough in the capital left a deep impression. Having personally witnessed Child Action Nepal’s valuable work rescuing and supporting children at risk, she volunteered as a trustee.