Heather Bellamy spoke with Becky Murray, Co-founder of One by One.

David had lived on grass and worms to make it from day to day. I was horrified that in this day and generation a child could have gone through that.

I remember trying to hold David the first day I met him; just trying to embrace him and hold him because he was a little boy just so shut off to the rest of the world. As I held him, he just breeze blocked in my arms as if to say, "Get off," because he was not familiar with human interaction, let alone someone now hugging him.

We brought him back to the children's home that very day; this was back in 2013. I remember all my other kids who'd lived there for a few months by this point, all coming to love on him and meet their new brother, but he had no facial responses to them. He wouldn't smile or talk to anyone. There was just nothing behind his eyes. You know that spark a child has? Well, there was just nothing there. He was probably one of the most hopeless cases I've ever met. He was just so shut off and it was one of the hardest things I've ever witnessed. That was in December of 2013.

I remember returning in February 2014 and frantically looking around for David, but I couldn't see him. Then I felt this little tug on the side of my jacket and I looked down and there's little David. I genuinely didn't recognise him, because all of a sudden here's this little boy laughing and smiling and running around with the other kids. Just in the space of two months, he'd completely transformed and it was simply because he had finally found home. He'd finally found family and he'd finally found love.

Heather: What are the main challenges you've been facing?

Becky: Finances have been a struggle. I remember back in 2006 I did a feeding programme, so this was long before the charity itself existed. I was just one girl with a passion and I did this very small feeding programme out in Sierra Leone. I had this beautiful momma cook food to feed 50. I had to have someone doing the cooking for me because I can burn water. This beautiful Sierra Leonean momma cooked this rice for me, but to my horror, when I arrived at the venue there were about a hundred people there and I had only got food for 50. I remember being mortified, thinking this is going to look really bad. All these people are hungry. This is a nightmare. But we prayed over it and amazingly, miraculously, everybody that day ate.

Remembering the innocence of that moment and realising that I don't have very much to offer; I am like the little boy with the loaves and fishes, where all I've got is a fish sandwich on offer and it doesn't look like very much, but if I give all that I am to God, He can do far more than I could ever do.

In the innocence of that moment, right back in 2006, I remember learning a valuable lesson that has held me ever since. That is: in the midst of crisis you might not feel like you've got enough, but if you'll just put all that you are into it, then let God do the rest and He always does.

Then back in 2011, I am given this huge bill for the children's home. It's a bill of £150,000. At that point I had £1,000 and it had taken me for ever to get this £1,000. I remember looking at this bill thinking it may as well be a million, it felt so impossible and so out of my capabilities. But in that little moment I remember looking back in my mind to the little blue box of rice, where again I had nowhere near enough for the need, but I just put all that I was into it and God came through. We invested all of our £1,000 into this bill and throughout the following year, literally every single penny came in for the children's home.

So we opened on the 12th of the 12th without one penny owing on that building. Every time we've stepped out, we've never had enough before we've stepped out, but every single time we've just stepped out in faith and God's come through.

Heather: How has doing this work changed you?

Becky: I now have the honour of being a momma. As a young teenager, I thought I wanted to go and study law. I loved God, but I wanted a nice big house and a nice car and all the rest of it. But I've discovered that I don't want any of that. To be a momma to all my babies is my greatest honour in life. They're the ones who teach me what it is to be a Christian.

I genuinely believe I have learned generosity by watching the poor. I remember this one little girl came begging one day in Kenya and literally the only thing I had in my hand was this orange that I was half way through eating. I gave her my half eaten orange and I expected her to run down the mud track and eat it all to herself. I remember her running up the track to this little group of girls that were playing at the top of the street. They hadn't seen me give this girl this half an orange and yet her first reaction was to run up and share it. I sobbed, because here was a little girl who was hungry herself, hungry enough to beg for my half eaten orange, and yet her first reaction was to go and share that with other girls who were hungry. I thought, how many times in life have I done that? Where I have not had very much and so I've clung on to the little bit that I've got for myself. Yet I watched the poor and I watched them be so generous out of their nothingness, and yet spiritually they've got far more. So they are the ones now teaching me what it is to really be a Christian.

Heather: What do you have planned for the coming year?