Jane Walker

Jane Walker MBE (born ) is a British charity worker who founded the Philippine Community Fund, which is now called the Purple Community Fund. She founded two schools in the Philippines and a supporting charity in 2002.

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.

Life Walker was born in Southampton, England in about 1964. She left home and school when she was sixteen and took various jobs including being a chambermaid. She went into the magazine industry and made some money. She arranged a visit to the cemetery project and she decided before she got back to give up her job in Britain. She was intrigued by the Tondo slums and she returned to Southampton where her plan to "do something" took place. Her family had to respond to the jobless Walker's seemingly irrational vision. She started to gather funds and send them to a contact in Navotas who managed their distribution. The charity looked after the community providing schooling, healthcare and clean water. 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 Navotas cemetery. In the following year a new school opened on the former rubbish tip in Tondo. The new school was made from 74 shipping containers and it has nearly thirty classrooms on four different floors. The school was called the "Philippine Community Fund (PCF')'s Openwork foundation school" and it had facilities for 1,000 children who can attend from four years old. The new school lacked the rats, flooding and mosquito's of the previous school and it had new features like windows.

In 2012 she was living in the Philippines.

In time she would raise money, raise funds and build businesses that transformed rubbish into products. This caused her to be referred to by gulfnews.com as the "Angel of the dump". After they were gathered together they are cleaned, sorted and polished they are made into handbags by the elderly, teenagers and people with disabilities.