ROSS, Calif. -- Agape Farmhands, a Marin County nonprofit organization, is dedicated to helping build a prosperous rural community in Malawi, Africa. Their focus is on the education of children and the empowerment of girls and women.

"It's a place of extreme poverty," Reverend of St John's Episcopal Church Chris Rankin-Williams says.

"They don't have shoes. They sleep on the dirt. One single mom, we went and visited her house and she sleeps on the floor, on a mat with her little four-year-old boy," Agape Farmhands Treasurer Robyn Dahlin says.

Agape Farmhands was formed in response to the work of an Anglican priest named Francis Matumba.

"Father Francis Matumba started a program, Agape Farms. Agape Farms' main mission is to provide education for children in Malawi, especially girls," R

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