Lydia, a British student who won 16,000 pounds (US$ 27,500) in the TV-show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" said she didn't really earned it and handed over the money she won to an orphanage in Thailand.

Compared to Westerners I felt that those Thai orphans needed the money a lot more than I did, that is why I gave the Thai orphanage every penny that I made by winning on the TV-show. As the winning of such a huge sum of money seemed like a gift from God, I felt I ought to give it away to a good cause, she said.

I know the money will do mush more good in the orphanage in Thailand, than it will do here, so I donated all my winnings to the Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities, in Pakkred, near the Thai capital of Bangkok in Thailand.

Lydia, who is studying psychology at the Oxford University's Wadham College, further said: I feel very passionate about this orphanage in Thailand. I spent 6 months working there in my gap year. Lydia won the cash when she took part in a "Freshers and Professors" version of Chris Tarrant's TV-show hit on ITV1 last month where she shared half of 32,000 pound she won together with her quiz partner, Professor Mark Batty, of Leeds.

Lydia, of Dulwich, South London, had been struggling to get by on her earnings of £35 a night as a waitress and said: Originally I was thinking to keep 2,000 pounds to buy a new laptop computer and some good speakers and also I thought about buying myself a new coat, but then I thought back of the first time I saw those poor children of the orphanage in Thailand.

Some fellow students calls Lydia mad to give away all her money. Lydia says: It is mostly only the richer people who advice me to keep the money and secure a house or a property as a security for my future.

Lydia's dad, Stephen Nash, a hospital A & E consultant, said: Lydia has a really good attitude to money and thinks that it is better to give money away than to need receive money.