A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl organised a cake sale to raise funds for an African orphan.
Jini Rose, aged nine, helped make the delicious pastry treats and sold them at her school St Luke's Primary in Brighton.
She was raising money for a young man in Malawi who she has called her brother her whole life.
Her parents met him when they were travelling 15 years ago and have paid for his schooling since.
After buying his hand-painted watercolour postcards on the beach they learned about the life and ambitions of the young man, Christopher Chapema, who had already lost both parents during the height of the African AIDS epidemic.
They started sending him money each month to help with his education and the Brighton couple are trying to raise funds to build a small house on some land he inherited in Malawi.
Jan, Jini's mother, said: “We want to make him sustainable out there, we want to create a boarding house with a room where orphans can stay, and paint artwork to sell to pay for their education."
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