By Stephen Ayers
Mahatma Gandhi with Elizabeth Fox Howard perhaps the woman standing second from left, at Kingsley Hall, Bromley-by-Bow, in 1931. Photo: Kingsley Hall Elizabeth Fox Howard was a highly courageous woman, who became friends with Mahatma Gandhi and stood up to the Third Reich. She was not afraid to take risks to break down social barriers with kindness and to give compassionate support to the most vulnerable, when the state and the majority of society reviled and rejected them. She summed up her ethos as: Alongside the purely relief work, we were always trying to carry a quiet and unostentatious message of friendship and reconciliation’.