Role Models-1: "Young Saviour: Student buys Orphanage"

A student who visited a run-down African orphanage was so moved by the children's plight that she raised 30,000 Pound Sterling to buy it. Amy Lambert, 24, set about gathering funds after witnessing the horrors at the decrepit Kichijo Orphanage in Tanzania. she spent eight weeks volunteering there last summer, when cared for 150 boys and girls, many of whom had lost one or both parents to AIDS and HIV. Lambert found children who were starving, dangerously dehydrated and sleeping in dirty beds. The undergraduate at Bath Spa University raised more than 30,000 Pounds Sterling in just seven months. Her offer to buy the orphanage was accepted earlier this year.

Courtesy: The New Sunday Express, Tiruchy, April 26, 2009 ("Vignettes")

Grateful thanks to The New Sunday Express.