However little we Westerners thought we possessed, we were living like kings in comparison to those around us.

Tensions, doubts and questions ravaged my mind. `How does God give one an assignment without the tools to accomplish it?'

Now she is in her final year of training, working on a cardiology ward with 30 beds. The patients are critically ill and deaths are frequent.

We found that we could lose our rigidity without compromising our fundamental beliefs.

Maggie Kirk, Pippa Faunce and Caroline Hewitt have now left their schools in Birmingham and the south of England.