PROCEEDS from Malvern fundraising efforts have gone to a charity helping tsunami victims in India.

The Janeve Foundation received £5,000 from a healing day of remembrance in Malvern, which helped return boats to the sea in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu.

Pupils at St James's School, West Malvern, raised £2,500 from a sponsored silence and sent letters to children in the village.

Malvern's Vince Sneed, who is in the area, has reported back on the relief effort and described meeting a mother, who was heavily pregnant when the tsunami struck, now living in flooded temporary accommodation with her child and mother.

"When we visited the whole area was flooded and their houses and clothes and possessions were soaked," he said.

"She is from a community of 28 families which are having new houses built. In three months they should be finished."

A total of £7,000 raised this year by the Malvern-based Planters fund for Sri Lanka went to re-build the library at the Henwala Jayatissa School.

Building work is now complete and the school needs donations of computer equipment and ink cartridges.

Anyone who can help should contact Lorraine Page on 01684 564084.