managers, among them marshall, Wace and EIm’s Arki Busson, got together to do something to relieve the plight of romanian orphans in 2001, Ark has shown an approach to networking and fund-raising that has left other charities trailing. In that time, it has raked in more than £150 million from individual donors and attracted a further £250 million from governments and NGOs. “more than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by Ark. I use that word properly,” says Wace. Whether they’re orphans in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria has been added to romania), victims of HIV and A IDS and other life- threatening conditions in Africa (Ark’s next major initiative will be a drive for child vaccines with matched funding from the UN’s Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations or Gavi) or school pupils in the US,
