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When she was just seven months old, Dorah Mokoena was severely burned and disfigured in a squatter camp fire in South Africa.

Doctors were convinced she was going to die and she received little treatment.

She did survive, but she was left with no hands, no lips, no nose, and no eyelids.

A British journalist called Bronwen Jones, who had moved to South Africa with her family, read about Dorah in a newspaper and went to visit her in hospital.

After two years of visits, Bronwen decided to adopt Dorah as her own daughter.

Dorah is now 16 years old and has had a total of 26 operations to help repair her injuries.

She remains badly disfigured and still has difficulty in communicating - but, according to Bronwen, she always had "a lovely laugh inside her" and gave "great big hugs." Now Dorah can walk, talk and dance.

Bronwen discovered that many children in South Africa suffer terrible injuries in fires, and now runs a home where scores of them have found refuge.

She was recently in the UK with Dorah to support a fire safety campaign, and spoke to Outlook's Matthew Bannister about her experiences helping Dorah live with her disfigurement, and Dorah's love of blue cheese and oysters.