| Administrative History | Bridget Stevenson MBE (1909-1985) was born in Rajkot, India, and educated at Wycombe Abbey, Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin where she gained a Diploma in Social Science in 1934. In the years after World War II she worked for UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration], and served in some of the worst concentration camps. She joined Save the Children (SCF) in September 1949, working at the Uelzen Camp in Germany (and was known as the 'Angel of Uelzen'). She worked for 17 years with children in transit and DP [Displaced Persons] camps in Germany, for which she received the MBE and West German Order of Merit. She also worked with Hungarian refugees, supervised SCF relief work after the 1960 earthquake at Agadir, Morocco, set up a new programme for SCF in Algeria, and led a relief team to Vietnam before becoming Field Director in Agadir. She retired from SCF in 1977. |