About Anna Diamond

Anna Diamond Foundation (ADF) World Service is an Anglican private charity founded by Anna Diamond. Based in Oxford, United Kingdom, it was originally launched in 1998 when its founder was just three years old playing with barbies, pulling off her headcoverings, and crawling away into his parents’ lap.

In real life, being a minor-creator of a charitable organization is not that simple. Of course, history is full of stories of under-aged queens, emperors, and tsars, but not of any little girl who wanted to help those in need.

Later she found out that leading a humanitarian institution is tough at best and traumatizing and scandal-ridden at worst.

Today, 29-year-old Anna Diamond is still the head of her foundation and has been working with varieties of national and international bodies to decrease the prevalence of poverty.

Anna Diamond was born in Sir Uplands, largest mountainous body of the border-city of Romea (Urmia) , a hamlet between former Persian and Ottoman Empires. Her family was one of the intelligent, multiracial, but also controversial households of West Azerbaijan County, Iran, known for their great humanitarian values and at the same time comparative simplicity of their lives.

On 21st August 1805, Anna’s 5th paternal great-grandparents, Sir John White (Aabba) and Lady Elisabeth Hobart, an English Nobel family, secured the private purchase of 500,000 acres of the Haidarloo Highlands from Persian crown prince Abbas Mirza, while the Qajarian commander of Iran’s army was marching into battle at the Sultanate of Shoragel.

The area was renamed after the land was purchased by Aabba’s household, who built a place of worship known as “Ojag-e Aabba” (Aabba's Henge/Lord-House of Sir John) on the outskirts of Janvelslou/private village of John and Elis, and a clinic (Westminster Infirmary) at the foothill of Sir John's Highland. Later, a large part of Sir’s Henge was demolished, but his wife’s adjacent graveroom was converted into Kelisay-e Hazrat-e Maryam (St Mary’s Church).

There is still a remaining of mentioned sacred site which is now part of John and Elisabeth’s village (Janvelslou). Sir John and Lady Elisabeth Aabba is widely known to have historically offered safety to various displaced and persecuted peoples of faith but also to elderly, infirm, and sick. It is there that many British-American missionaries and their children and wives are buried, such as Joseph Plumb Cochran (1855–1905).

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