A six-year-old has collaborated with a Marlow charity to send out dresses to girls orphaned as a result of the Ebola crisis.

Honor Price was saddened when she heard the story of the Ebola orphans, so rallied up her classmates to collect dresses to donate to ‘Build on Books’, a charity that is currently caring for 200 orphans in Sierra Leone.

Honor’s Mum, Lindsay Price said: “I’d been in a meeting for Build on Books, and when I got in from work she asked what I’d been doing so I told her how we’d been looking after Ebola orphans.

“I explained to her what Ebola was and she got quite upset about it and said she wanted to put a smile on the girls faces, so decided to send in one of her dresses.”

Honor was encouraged by her first donation after receiving a photo of a girl from Sierra Leone in her new dress.

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Honor Price.

This inspired Honor to launch the ‘donate a dress appeal’ and encouraged her classmates to bring in their once loved summer dresses.

Founder of Build on Books, Lori Spragg said: “When we found the 200 Ebola orphans their houses had been sterilized and their belongings had been burned so we have to give them new clothes and school uniforms.

“It’s really nice for them to have lovely pretty dresses and what Honor has done is a wonderful thing.”

Thanks to the efforts of Honor and her classmates, 30 dresses are now on their way to Sierra Leone.

Mrs Price said: “The girls were so happy to help; it was such an exciting thing for them to do.”

Build on Books was initially to improve literacy in Sierra Leone and have since opened 150 libraries and sent over half a million books.

Anyone can donate to Build on Books at http://www.buildonbooks.com/