A SHIPMENT of musical instruments will be transported to India for the use of local children, in memory of a fundraiser who died last year.

Lorraine Page, pictured left, started the charity The Janeve Foundation, and for some two decades worked hard to help poor people in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Mrs Page died in November, but before she passed away, she had already set in motion the project to ship the instruments to the city of Madurai.

The instruments belonged to Worcestershire County Council, where they were used by music teachers.

This week, her son and daughter, Nathan and Ellie Page, said their mother worked tirelessly to help the poor of rural India.

“She did so much,” said Mr Page. “She helped to open a leprosy clinic, she was a palliative care nurse for Macmillan, helped found a hospice, helped street children and funded local artists.”

Her children have agreed to wind down the Janeve Foundation, and say the instrument shipment is a fitting end to Mrs Page’s work.