Growing Care is a charitable organisation run by Lewis and Jacquie Aubry, who's main aim is to teach animal husbandry and cultivation skills to youngsters so that they can become self sufficient in food.
The operation on Mel's heart would cost around £1,600 plus hospital and aftercare costs bringing the total to at least £2,000. A sum his family could never afford as the four of them survive on an income of less than £40 a month.