When Amber Williams lost her mother to cancer in 2020, she said from her deathbed: 'I'm going to die and Palestine still isn't free." In response, Amber co-founded the Nina Franklin fund and has organised sponsored walks in Bristol over the last three years to support building schools in Palestine.
Her mum Nina Franklin worked as a teacher for many years in Bristol before becoming the president of the former Nation Union of Teachers (NUT) and working full-time for the union. As an educator and activist she became deeply involved in the Palestinian cause.
Amber worked with others on fundraising events and by January 2023 the Nina Franklin Fund had raised £35,000. It was then that Amber went to Palestine for the first time and visited one of the schools they funded, which now has a plaque on the wall with her mother’s name on it.
