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Most couples celebrating their silver wedding anniversary might throw a party or go on the holiday of a lifetime.
Not Peter and Donna Foulds. To celebrate their 25 years of marriage the couple bought a destitute Indian orphanage saving it from closure.
The couple, who run Springvale Leather in Rawtenstall, heard about the Holy Faith School and Orphanage from a church newsletter. Peter, 48, explained: "One day this newsletter landed on my desk. In it there was a little story about an orphanage in India that had been forced to close because it had no money. "Children as young as three had been forced to go and live on the streets because the orphanage had gone. "Donna and I are both Christians, and as soon as I read it I felt we could help.
"I took the letter home and showed it Donna. I didn't tell her my thoughts, but straight away she said exactly the same as me."
Donna, 42, added: "It is our silver wedding anniversary this year and we had thought about going on a cruise or having a big party. But then the newsletter arrived. We both agreed that we couldn't go and spend all that money on a one-off event when all those children were living on the streets. The orphanage is our silver wedding present to each other."
So without even seeing the orphanage for themselves the couple sent £16,000 to India to cover the costs of the mortgage so that it could re-open again.
