TWO students have created a cookbook featuring recipes from across the world to help raise money for Indian slum children to visit the UK.

Ruby Sowerbutts and Chinyere Hatton gathered recipes from fellow students and staff at Cheltenham Ladies College to create the Global Cookbook.

Members of the Oscar Foundation’s under-14 football team are set to tour the country, which will see them face four schools including Beaudesert Park School in Minchinhampton, this October.

The Oscar Foundation was set up 10 years ago by Mumbai teenager Ashok Rathod, now 28, to help keep slum children in school.

Ruby, from Frampton Mansell, and formerly a Beaudesert Park School pupil, said: “I had the honour of meeting Ashok last year when he came to my college to hold an assembly.

“Listening to his account of life growing up in the slums and his vision for change was enormously inspiring.

“I heard Beaudesert was hosting a team of children from the Mumbai slums in October this year and decided to help raise funds.”

The cookbook also features a guest recipe from Ashok’s mother – her favourite carrot dessert recipe.

The printing and organisation of the book was not without its problems, but inspired by the hardships and determination of the Oscar Foundation children, the girls persevered.

Sponsorship also came from Cheltenham-based The Renewable Design Company. The book is now available to buy online and at Harriet’s House in Frampton Mansell. The book costs £10 each, with every penny going to Oscar.

15 children in the slum community in Mumbai are preparing themselves for a two week football, educational and cultural tour this October. Five schools across the UK are collaborating to ensure the funds are raised to provide a truly life changing experience.

The kids were recently seen reading about the tour in the Standard.

Ashok will be visiting the UK in April ahead of the tour to drum up awareness and fundraising support.

Beaudesert Park School are soon to announce an extraordinary fundraising feat, which Ashok will be in Minchinhampton to launch.

Former Cirencester College student Max Cooke, 27, will head to Mumbai on April 1 for three months to teach the children English.

Lucinda Magraw, patron of the Oscar foundation, met the children coming to the UK in the slum community in February.

She urged each child to attend Max's English lessons and they all made a promise with a handshake.

The book is also available to buy by emailing Lucinda@oscar-foundation.org or at RDC in Cheltenham.

Donations can be made for the tour at https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/oscarukschoolstour