The following is from a missionary working in Burundi: ‘I'm sitting in a café having a snatched lunch alone, and I'm crying. Our teams on the frontline urgently need more resources to help save lives. The sound of gunfire in the capital is normal now. Most people are petrified. Suffice to say, there's plenty to make one weep right now after last week's failed coup and the deteriorating political and security situation. My colleague M’s  3 year-old daughter is so traumatised by the shooting that every time she hears a gunshot she pees herself - she's now  peeing herself multiple times. C rings me, hunkered down in her hovel with her daughter and granddaughter, a gun battle going on outside. I would do anything for C, but I can’t swoop in through the bullets to save my dear friend. My widower buddy H tries to keep his six children's morale up, and L’s wife has just died in childbirth. He now has four starving children.’