abandoned as a baby, jean—shefali was just one month old when she was moved into a barnardo's home.just used to say i'm anglo—indian. outside of the family unit, people used to say to me, you know, "where do you come from?" 0r "go back to your own country." it was at a time in the '50s when there was a lot of prejudice. and my foster mother, really, she didn't know quite how to handle it. i didn't have a narrative of my family, and i didn't have a narrative of how come i was fostered. anyone who's been cared for or fostered through barnardo's can access files the charity has on them, as can their descendants. in some places, it was quite hard to read. it told me about who my parents were. it told me their names, i actually had a name. these records mean so much to so many of us, actually finding out the truth, even if i didn't like some of those truths. making sure that cultural identity is respected and cared for. jean—shefali is now an ambassador for barnardo's, and offers advice on fostering or adopting children from different cultural backgrounds. barnardo's, you know, have impr