The charity's mission is to save lives by ensuring ... which responded to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami by sending water filtration kits to countries such as Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.

Mr and Mrs Linch founded Aurora Charity and donors helped fund 40 homes, a Montessori school, four shops and a community centre for 300 people whose lives and homes were torn apart by the tsunami.

The tsunami that struck South Asia in December 2004 will be remembered not only for the scale of the human misery it caused, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions, but also for the ...