When 14-year-old Dorcas Cherop's family was told she needed to undergo at least a year's treatment in Uganda for bladder cancer - her future looked bleak.
"It was bad. At one point, the family contemplated giving up and returning home," Ms Chepchirir admitted. "Eighty to 85% of the population of the children with cancer here at the institute are peasants who live on less than $3 a month." Most cancer treatment involves regular chemotherapy - a treatment regime that involves drugs that destroy rapidly growing cancer cells in the body.
It has since expanded to four homes, two in Kampala, one in the western town of Mbarara and another in Gulu in the north.
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