Railway Children recently obtained a £54000 grant from the Elton John Aids

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Railway Children recently obtained a £54,000 grant from the Elton John Aids Trust to educate children and staff on the disease and sexual health.Peter McDermott, head of the global HIV/Aids programme for Unicef, said the charity's work was "very, very valuable". For Mehun, Raju, and countless others, the Railway Children offers hope and a future.Jenny Agutter says: 'Support our appeal'There are millions of children living on the streets of India, enduring poverty, hunger and illness, and at risk of exploitation. Mount Hartman Bay is a beautiful, secluded bay with wooded slopes rising from a long inlet. We plan to remain on the island for a while in the yacht's usual berth at Secret Harbour marina, in Mount Hartman Bay.At this point, we hear that Hurricane Ivan is near but we are not too worried After all, Grenada is considered a safe haven.

It hasn't seen a hurricane for 50 years, and besides which, the weather forecasts predict that Ivan will pass north-east of the island. It will be a safe place to ride out the tropical storm that will inevitably follow in the hurricane's wake.Even so, we prepare for high winds. It is late summer, and we have arranged to meet for a Caribbean holiday on the yacht Camille. There are three of us, hoping for sunshine and good sailing: the owner, Peter Breach, a 62-year-old accountant from Bristol; Vivian Fuller, 60, an artist from Birmingham, and myself, a solicitor from Staffordshire. Peter spends much of his time on the boat; nine months earlier, I had helped him sail Camille in the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers I rejoin him on the island of Grenada in late August Vivian flies in a week later, on 5 September. Her task was to clean up Ukraine's fraud-ridden energy sector. But then she was accused of corruption herself, namely of making $2.25bn (£1.15bn ) along with her husband and father-in-law, through illegal gas deals. She was jailed for a month, but later acquitted with her husband, though her father-in-law is still being pursued.Mrs Tymoshenko claims the charges were politically motivated.

Shortly before these elections, Russian prosecutors wanted to question her about a bribery scandal involving Russian defence officials She refused to give evidence.. But among her supporters she inspires fanatical devotion - indeed, many of the tens of thousands of people who have occupied central Kiev's streets speak of "Yulia" as if she were a religious figure.But her past is controversial. A talented economist and businesswoman, she headed a power firm called Unified Energy Systems before becoming an MP in 1998 and serving as Deputy Prime Minister under Mr Yushchenko from 1999 to 2001. Her job - at least in the eyes of the activists - is to make sure that he holds his nerve and gives the people what they want.Aged 44, she is fiercely ambitious and has made no secret of her desire to be Prime Minister in a Yushchenko administration.Such a move would be controversial; she is despised by Russian nationalists and by Ukraine's discredited outgoing President, Leonid Kuchma, who threw her out of his government several years ago. She also has a reputation for being provocative, and for getting carried away by her own rhetoric.Indeed many of the things Mrs Tymoshenko has said in the past two weeks have seemed exaggerated in the cold light of day. She says the things he can't afford to, mixes with the youth activists who occupied the centre of Kiev and talks an uncompromising game.When parliament was almost over-run by opposition protesters last week, Mrs Tymoshenko tried to hold the doors open for them If Mr Yushchenko is the good cop, she is the bad one. Thousands of pro-Yanukovich supporters demonstrated in the city of Kharkiv, where more than 1,000 people from eastern and southern regions had gathered to condemn the supreme court's verdict.Some of them warned of serious trouble ahead.