By
Nadia Jefferson-Brown
YEARS before Madonna's controversial adoption turned the global spotlight onto Africa, a York couple set up a charity to give orphans in Malawi a better life.
Dave Grainger and Helen Salter founded a York-based charity after living in Malawi and witnessing the plight of young people who could not afford the state-run education.
Determined to help them pave their own path in life, the couple decided the best way forward was to put the most impoverished through school.
Moses - the Malawian Orphans Sponsored Education Scheme - aims to educate orphaned children, mainly by financially supporting their schooling costs.