Auction to help young orphans

WHEN Martin McHenry went to Cambodia he fell in love. Not just with the place, which he describes as majestic, but with the people, particularly the children.

“The kids are great, so full of life and very mannerly and unspoiled,” says Martin who was so impressed with the operations of a makeshift orphanage there that he put his Asian holiday to one side and stayed to help, painting and decorating the shelter for needy children.

The orphanage, in the coastal tourist town of Sihanoukville, in south east Cambodia, is known as Anita’s Home for Children and is run by Iranian Anita Akbari and her brother, Mohammed, or Mo Mo as he is better known.