Sally Becker

In 2016, Becker founded Road to Peace, a British charity helping children in areas of conflict. In 2016 she attempted to negotiate temporary asylum in the United Kingdom for 1400 Yazidi survivors. In 2018 she and her volunteers provided medical treatment for children fleeing from ISIL in Syria and northern Iraq|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40402501%7Cand established an emergency medical facility for Yazidi children in Sinjar. From Mostar to Mosul and across the Middle East, Sally and her volunteers have helped thousands of sick and injured children.

Becker's memoir, Sunflowers and Snipers, was published by The History Press in 2012.

In August 2006, she brought humanitarian aid to families trapped in shelters during the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Becker was appointed as a goodwill ambassador for Children of Peace, a multi-faith charity dedicated to building friendship, trust and reconciliation between Israeli and Palestinian children.

She arranged for them to travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment but on 13 November 1998, the day the Hellenic Air Force was supposed to fly them to Britain, Home Office Minister Jack Straw refused to issue their visas. Two days later, Becker was shot by a masked gunman as she returned to her hotel with a colleague. The President of Albania sent his Minister of Health to evacuate her but she refused to leave without the children, remaining in the area until they were accepted for treatment in other countries.

In February 1994, aid convoys were grounded due to snow, leaving 28 injured children and their families trapped in a monastery serving as a makeshift hospital in Nova Bila. Becker reached the area by helicopter and flew them to safety.

1994 - Unsung Heroes - The Celebrity Guild of Great Britain. 1994 - The Ross McWhirter Award for Bravery. 1994 - Women of the Year Great Britain. 1995 - Special Award from The Variety Club of Great Britain. 1999 - Woman of the Year - Blue Drop Group Sicily. 2001 - Sally was granted the 'Freedom of Tropoje'. 2012 - Sally was an Olympic flag bearer representing Peace and Justice at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London alongside United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and boxer Muhammed Ali. .2020 - Sally was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a group of academics from Slovenia for her work in the Balkans and other war torn areas.

On 10 December 1993, she led a convoy of 57 ambulances and trucks from the United Kingdom to deliver medical aid to besieged hospitals and evacuate wounded children and their families from on all sides of the conflict. She managed to arrange ceasefires, and is credited with saving hundreds of lives. The mission was dubbed Operation Angel.

Sally Becker (born 29 March 1962) is a British humanitarian aid worker, best known for her work during the Bosnian and Kosovo Wars in the late 1990s. She is the founder of charities Road to Peace and Save a Child. She is credited with saving hundreds of lives through her actions in the Balkans, and was frequently referred to in the British media as the "Angel of Mostar".