JANET GINNINGS – AN INSPIRATIONAL WOMAN
It is no coincidence that Janet founded a charity that aims to help struggling single parents. Herself a single mother for many years, she knows the hardships that bringing up children on one’s own and with very little money entails.
Janet was married at the tender age of 15 through an arranged marriage in India and she was a mother at 16. After two children and by that time living in England, her marriage to an abusive husband broke up. It took her two years to confess to her family back in India that she was divorced, as it was viewed that she’d brought shame on her land-owning family. Isolated and struggling to make ends meet, and with very little formal education, Janet lived on a council estate and worked in a factory. Often with just 50p in her pocket, she was frequently faced with the choice whether to spend the pennies on lunch in the canteen or give up the bus ride and walk miles to work.
But Janet never gave up. With a strong innate sense of work ethic and Christian beliefs she worked her way through the many challenges to become the owner of a select hair & beauty salon in Mayfair, which she has subsequently let go to focus her efforts on her family and the charity.
Never having forgotten her own struggles, Janet now wants to help those in the situation she found herself many years ago. To raise money she already completed a charity climb of Ben Nevis and Mount Kilimanjaro. This is such a worthwhile charity and we would welcome your support.
