'I'll never forget having to go down into a bomb shelter as city burned'

She has seen people in some of their most desperate moments17:41, 19 Aug 2026A woman from Wirral has said that spending time in war zones and seeing the desperate situations that people are going through has given her a "new perspective" on life.‌After taking a year out to volunteer in Eswatini in southern Africa when she left school, Anna Fraine, 30, went on to study in York and then Manchester where she specialized in humanitarianism and conflict response. From there she began working with The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) as an aid worker before more recently becoming a Programme Manager at Disasters Emergency Committee [DEC] which has seen her come face to face with people battling for survival in crisis zones across the world.‌While she has been all over the world t