She was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to disadvantaged children in the Philippines.

[2] In the 1990s, Walker arrived in the Philippines on holiday and her journey took her by the dump and area of Manila known as Smokey Mountain.

Moreover the government agreed to let the charity take over a building so that it could create a second school for the children of the Navatos cemetery.

Class sizes in the Philippines are frequently over 70 as the country copes with crippling debt and impoverished industries.

[4] Children who stepped outside where they lived would have to walk through flies and deep mud and the whole place had methane coming to the surface and polluted air that smelled of smoke and rotting food.

People in the Philippines were collecting ring-pulls, as where members of Soroptimist International and the girl guides.

[8] After they were gathered together they are cleaned, sorted and polished they are made into handbags by the elderly, teenagers and people with disabilities.