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Granny aids 2000 families

A Monifieth grandmother who built a school and clinic in Kenya has helped more than 2000 poor families and orphaned children.

Gill Smith (56) set up the school in the bush, 20km from the coastal city of Malindi, in 2004 and the clinic a year later. The project is part-funded by herself and donations from friends and parishioners at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Broughty Ferry.

But Mrs Smith’s commitment to improving the lives of some of the poorest people on the planet does not stop there. She intends to focus on helping street children in Tanzania, where she now lives, when she travels back to Africa next week.

“I went on holiday in 1997 for one week. I liked the country so went back to get it out of my system but it had the opposite effect,” she said, “I will do this forever and will never permanently come back, not even in a box.”

Full story at Dundee Courier.