Kind-hearted Tim’s India quest
A CARPET seller took on a mountain of a challenge to buy baby milk for an Indian orphanage.
Tim Robey, 46, who runs The Weave at Clarence Mill, took part in the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money to buy baby milk for The Welfare Home for Children in New Delhi, which urgently needs supplies.
The challenge involved climbing the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours.
After the challenge he travelled to India to donate his money to the children’s home.
Tim chose the charity after business trips to India for his work selling handmade rugs and carpets made by skilled weavers there. He visits the home to donate various gift items such as clothes and toys from home, mostly donated by pupils at Bollington Cross Primary School and their families, who have been helping to support the school now for a number of years.
Tim, dad to Felix, eight, and Nathaniel, five, said: “We’ve been raising desperately needed funds to buy formula baby milk for the home.
“It does a fantastic job of offering help and shelter to abandoned and destitute babies and young children from both socio-economic and psychological problem backgrounds of India, by offering care, protection, education, welfare and rehabilitation.
“The two ladies who jointly run the home tell me that the one thing the home really needs more than anything is baby formula milk.
“Without formula milk the babies are missing out on this vital early stage nutrition that they so desperately need.”
Go to justgiving.com/ crowdfunding/tim-robey to donate to Tim’s fund for the orphanage.