Ant & Dec

Over the years, we've got used to being asked a lot of questions - but few have ever left us as stuck for words as Emily's did.

We went with Comic Relief to visit Africa's biggest slum, where Emily lives alongside more than a million other Kenyans surrounded by poverty, so extreme, that it's almost impossible to imagine. She lives in a tin shack and looks after her two sisters' children after they both died of AIDS. That''s 13 hungry mouths that she is responsible for feeding, and some of them have HIV. So does Emily.

There's no way she could ever manage on her own. Thanks to you, she doesn't have to. A Comic Relief funded project called Kicoshep is providing the kids with food, medicine and the education that is their one hope of a better life.

The truth is, for most of us in the UK it's impossible to know how we would feel if it was our family. Luckily we don't live in such absolute poverty. The only answer we could give Emily is that her situation is totally wrong. At least we were able to tell her though, that thanks to Red Nose Day we're all helping to put it right.

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