Correne Dummett’s daily schedule would probably exhaust a woman half her age.

There simply aren’t enough hours in the day for the 68-year-old - who brings up her 11-year-old grandson, cares for her 100-year-old mother and looks after her two-year-old granddaughter every weekday - to do all that she needs to do.

Mrs. Dummett is usually up and about well before 5 a.m. to get a head start on her chores, which include making breakfast and a packed lunch for grandson Austin and bathing and dressing her mother Esmee for whom she provides 24-hour care.

Yet somehow, three days a week - Monday, Wednesday and Friday - Mrs. Dummett finds the time to prepare and deliver breakfasts and lunches for disadvantaged students at three schools, all before 8.30 a.m.

Sometimes she gets up as early as 3 a.m. to bake special batches of muffins or cookies for the children.

Three hours a week are spent shopping for the produce needed for the school feeding programme which she set up four years ago as community service director at Southampton Seventh Day Adventist Church.

And on Wednesdays the selfless mother-of-three and grandmother-of-five gives up another hour-and-a-half to deliver hot food to elderly residents for Meals on Wheels. “Sometimes it does feel like a lot but you can find time to do whatever you want to do if you want to do it bad enough,” she says.

For Mrs. Dummett - who stresses that she couldn’t do all she does without the help of husband Bruce - the school feeding programme is a labour of love.

She launched it after hearing anecdotally that local children were arriving at school without breakfast and now co-ordinates the feeding of youngsters at five schools in four parishes.

A small band of volunteers assist her - each putting in countless hours themselves - but it’s tough to find new recruits.

“I have made so many appeals in church,” she says. “It’s hard to get people who are willing to commit to something like that.”

Nurse Gaynell Hayward, who is raising money for the feeding programme, praised Mrs. Dummett and her volunteers but said the burden of providing food should not be on them.

“Imagine taking care of your 100-year-old mother and your own grandchild and you volunteer for all of this. What’s wrong with that picture?”