Dimanche is two years old. When she was 18 months old she became sick and her parents took her to a clinic about 10km from home.

Sitting on a reed mat in a rural village in Malawi, listening to this grandmother’s story I felt sad, encouraged, grateful and hopeful all within the space of ten minutes!

It is often around Christmas time when the harvest is still a few months away, and food supplies are running low that you hear the most heart-felt testimonies of the difference Home-Based Care is making to people’s lives.

Abdela is 27 years old, and he and his father have a one hectare plot in the area irrigated by the project.

These are school girls in Langano SIM School, who used to drink river water when they were 5-7 years old.

Barteno was among the first 100 students who were registered at the beginning of the project. A boy about the age of 12, he didn't say much.

The project sells small packets of vegetable seed to farm families at cost price. These include seed for cabbage, swiss chard, carrot, red beet, lettuce and a small amount of tomato seed.

This young mum in Zimbabwe is HIV positive, and cares very deeply for her baby.

In the beginning of 2013 Torchbearers came to Russell Ricketts and asked if they could use the facility to build a school in the area. The structure currently lies in the town of Melut along the River Nile.

One of the interesting stories coming out of the Rom clinic area is the story of a mango tree. Nearby the clinic there are a number of mango trees producing much fruit.