Charity worker Mary Gaddum, of Clarbeston Road, is appealing for help for her Poor Students Home in India.

Mary, who set up the home in 1969 after working with disadvantaged children in Bombay, is asking for sponsors for the ten boys currently in the home.

She said: You will receive thank you letters and news of their progress and health and their details. If they are good and if they are studying hard we will keep them until they are in the X Standard, at this stage they will pass the School Certificate.

Mary was brought up in Orielton House and sold it to Ronald Lockley in 1954. She trained as a nurse and worked as a nurse in the County Hospital before devoting much of her life caring for the poor. She now lives in a modest house in Clarbeston Road.

She said it costs at least £4,300 per year to run the home.

We have ambitious plans to expand and develop the Marys Poor Students Home, but costs are going up so we are finding it progressively difficult to run it, she said. Our mottos are: To bring up Children to love God, and then fellow men, and to be successful and honest citizens of India with a good education that are helpful to others.

Donations can be sent to the Mary Gaddum Charity Trust, A/C No. 0372674, Lloyds Bank TSB, Treasury A/C, 7 Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA61 2JZ.