Andy Roberts, who has received an MBE for his work in rescuing abused women in Brazil A MAN from York has been awarded the MBE for his work in helping street girls forced into sex trafficking in Brazil. Andy Roberts, 27, of Badger Hill and a former Fulford School pupil, receives the New Year Honour after setting up a charity called ReVive. The Press has told previously how Andy was 4,500 miles from home when he heard the story that would change his life. Three sisters, aged eight, ten and 12, told him how they were prostituted by their own mother, night after night after night; sent out to sell themselves on the streets.