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‘I’m giving up my job to help Aids orphans’

A special needs teacher from Every Nation Church is giving up her career to help Aids orphans in South Africa full-time.

Diane Fick, 40, will swap her flat in leafy South Ealing, west London, for a rugged farm in the mountains outside Grabouw – an hour’s drive east of Cape Town – in pursuit of a lifelong dream.

‘I am being Jesus’ hands and feet’

One hospital ship. Four hundred volunteers aboard. Two million people helped in 70 of the world’s poorest countries.

This, in short, is the story of Mercy Ships – a Christian charity which has been bringing free healthcare to the world’s forgotten poor for more than 30 years.

‘I wanted to end my life’

As a bright, young freshman, Janelle looked as if she had it all. But eating disorders consumed her – until she moved to London and saw God in the lives of the students around her.

‘I hated my home’

The one-bedroom council flat that Habiba shares with her mother and two young children used to be so cramped and dirty that she dreaded going home – until a team of volunteers from Every Nation Church stepped in.

‘I had all these rules inside of me’

For 20-year-old Vasek, leaving his native Czech Republic for London has been an act of leaving behind an old life in more than one way.