Lucia Raadschelders is a Dutch national who worked at the Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland (AABN/ Dutch Anti Apartheid Movement) from 1979 to 1985. After resigning from the Dutch AAM she was recruited to work for the African National Congress (ANC) in Swaziland to run a safe house. She lived in Swaziland from 1986 until she had to to return to the Netherlands in mid-1988. She was then recruited to work with the ANC in Zambia as part of Operation Vula from 1988-1992.