Debbie Deegan: 'You get involved in the lives of children who need you'

Debbie Deegan is closing her charity To Children With Love after 25 years. She speaks to Jennifer Stevens about the children she loves, the people who helped and what’s coming next

Debbie Deegan, founder of To Children With Love. Picture: Moya Nolan

THERE are some people in this life who are remarkable. They see a problem that needs to be fixed and think, yes, I can do that, I can make that better.

In 1995 Dubliner Debbie Deegan volunteered to have a child chosen by the Chernobyl Children’s Project stay with her family as part of a holiday programme. That child was Zina, a girl who lived almost all of her seven years in Hortlova orphanage in the Bryansk region of Russia.