You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

When women get together as a group, it is immensely powerful.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.

Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.