We're incredibly proud of - and incredibly dependent on - our local partners who work with communities in places we'd struggle to engage directly.  Our partners are an wonderfully varied group of people, and we love their range of gifts and personalities.  But they all share a similar, faith-based vision and passion to serve ours: to walk with the poor and assist them in improving their livelihoods.  Perhaps a few paraphrased verses from the second chapter of the New Testament book of Philippians best sums up our feelings towards them: 'We regularly give thanks for our partnership with them in the Good News of Jesus, convinced that He who began a good work in them will sustain them in it until the day it is finished'.