- A grandmother whose kitchen skills saw her raise enough money to put a permanent roof over the heads of a poverty-stricken family in Africa has admitted she is "gobsmacked" by the achievement.
When Margaret Bayne heard a homeless woman and her four children had been squatting on a beach in Kenya for five years, she decided she had to do something to help.
The retired social worker, from Perth, put her formidable tablet-making skills to work to raise money to buy the destitute family a home.
Mrs Bayne made nearly 500 trays of the sugary delicacy in her kitchen over the course of 2014/15.
The grandmother-of-five, a member of North Church in Perth, sold the treats to friends and members of the public - raising £5,469 in the process.
The feat means Elizabeth Charo and her children Philip, 14, Kezia, 12, Daniel, ten, and Caroline, seven, now have a roof over their heads, the Church of Scotland said.
Handymen in Kikambala, a coastal community in Kilifi county, erected the basic brick property in the grounds of a school.
Mrs Bayne, who battled through health problems to continue her fundraising, recently travelled to Kikambala with her husband Bruce to hand over the keys to the property - dubbed Vanilla Cottage - to the family.
Mrs Bayne, who also works as a street pastor in her home city, said: "I learned about Elizabeth and her four children through (Perth fundraiser) Dawn Ann Halliwell who has been building this school in Kikambala, Kenya, since 2010.
"She told me of the mother and her children squatting on the beach and I wanted to help. It touched my heart and I knew that I could really make a difference to the lives of this family.
"I am a Christian and believe that God has plans for all of us, so I asked Dawn Ann how much would it cost to build a house.
"I said I could make tablet to finance it. I was told I was mad and it could not be done, but I was determined to help this poor woman and her children who were living on a beach 20 minutes away from the school with no shelter."
Mrs Bayne said she was "gobsmacked" she had managed to raise enough money to pay for the house.
"I have a great faith and I just knew that if God was calling me to help Elizabeth and her children in this way, I could do what I wanted to do," she added.
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