"Living and volunteering in a third world country, we went from helping them, to being in a situation where we needed the help."

Purley brothers Rob and Paul Forkan's lives both changed during the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004.

Just 14 and 16 years old, the pair lost their parents in the tsunami.

"That day is such a distant memory now," Rob, the elder of the pair, said. "I don’t really think of it too much, I've just blocked it out a bit I think.

"Our parents brought us up to never think poor us, just never let that let that kind of situation define who you are."

Fast forward nine years and the brothers came up with an idea they hoped would help support deprived children by giving them an education, medication and nutrition.

This idea led to them launching clothing company 'Gandys'.

But that was only half the battle won.

The main goal of Rob and Paul was to use the money from Gandys and help build children's homes in Asia that would help give kids a leg up in life.

"Education over there is key," Rob said. "It’s their route out.

"There are a lot of kids in poverty so we have built these kids campuses where they can come for extra tutoring so they don't fall behind and end up doing things they shouldn't be doing.

"Education might be normal over here, but there it can be a luxury for some."

The most notable achievement was reaching the goal of building a children's home in memory of their parents for the 10th year anniversary in Sri Lanka. Then in October last year they opened their second children's home Malawi.

So what's the next step from here for their charity 'Orphans for Orphans'?

Just more of the same.

"We originally wanted to build one," Rob said.

"What’s stopping us from building and doing more?

"In 30 or 40 years time, if you can say you’ve opened 100 children's home then that would be some achievement, but it takes a lot of hard work and dedication.

"Some say that we just design clothes and build children's homes and it's as simple as that. There's a lot of logistics behind it, but we just want to take it one step at a time, because helping kids in need, that's the thing that drives us."