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Survivors are provided with 72 hour post-rape services, confidential medical care, post-exposure prophylaxis, antibiotics, and emergency contraceptive as part of the USAID Care, Access, Safety and Empowerment (CASE) program. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/itsarchel daily 0.75 2015-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428295950933-KUGNNF9VUPWNDYLYBT7O/140112-Liberia-Wingard-0033-web.jpg It's Archel Client: Archel Bernard (It's Archel) Location: Liberia Photographer: Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428295986160-0Q6Q8SXNUTLQ7XSOEPXM/140112-Liberia-Wingard-1876-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1393583833891-A1HUAJK08JPMRHK1WFH8/140112-Liberia-Wingard-1145-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1393584002029-9IW25JU8A456M4R9V4PB/140112-Liberia-Wingard-1226-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1393583962112-RY2T9QF1YC2LV8CRANF6/140112-Liberia-Wingard-1876-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296104478-FQOLQ95MB9LTET5W9JVR/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2943-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296021305-A35BZSIZ1Z077DMNWETI/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2198-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296167298-IWBLWR5ZIN3878J95V7I/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2565-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296244548-32LFO553I0RS5DICPLOP/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2443-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296245661-W23DEXE0PDPZEJW5OLUT/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2688-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296119092-AQZ6ODU2R170K42D76A4/140112-Liberia-Wingard-2367-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296550261-A8869YWPTF6SNY53ZD2N/140322-lbr-mwingard-0745-web.jpg It's Archel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428296522044-IGTMPZS7LZP08KMN0GCC/140322-lbr-mwingard-1243-web.jpg It's Archel http://www.namuhmedia.com/gbv daily 0.75 2015-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428633169791-78JNX6XE5W0DMFI2Q7BU/131230-liberia-wingard-1293-web.jpg GBV in Liberia - Gender Based Violence Location: Liberia Photographer: Morgana Wingard   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428634098622-XMNW4ZURPEUPU4O49VCF/131230-liberia-wingard-1257-web.jpg GBV in Liberia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1393601737948-IN06EMN9YLGK2XI7K41R/131230-liberia-wingard-1257-web.jpg GBV in Liberia Gender violence in and around schools is now widely recognized as a serious global phenomenon that is a fundamental violation of human rights and a major barrier to the realization of all children’s rights to education. Violence can be perpetrated by students or teachers in or around the school, or by out of school youth and/or adults who approach students on their way to and from school or demand sex in exchange for money or gifts. Acts of gender violence are disproportionately directed at girls, but boys and teachers can also be targets. Research carried out in 2012 highlights how school related gender based violence (SRGBV) is also a significant problem in Liberia for both female and male school students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428632584157-274HRSK6KL85A6G85670/131230-liberia-wingard-1293-web.jpg GBV in Liberia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1393601701938-UIEULHY3SI24G493D6PX/131230-liberia-wingard-1093-web.jpg GBV in Liberia Being asked for transactional sex is a fairly common experience for Liberian school children with nearly a third of school girls and just over 17% of school boys reporting they had been asked for sex in return for being given money or help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428633683395-FMZ1W5KSHHB3U7RW03PW/131230-liberia-wingard-0873-web.jpg GBV in Liberia 17% of female students and 14% of males reporting they have been asked for sex in return for goods like uniforms, food, or something similar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448336933-JG10OQO52GVZN2WI7TGK/131230-liberia-wingard-0048-web.jpg GBV in Liberia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448643861-XJ66COBMKV1BKZ3EJ9QC/140102-Liberia-Wingard-0040-web.jpg GBV in Liberia “If you don’t do well in the test, the teachers will tell you to pay money, but you’ll have to take the money to their houses. When you get there with the money, they will insist that you sleep with them." - Girl student https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448337038-FTT8CRUBF7U984GJRCK0/140102-Liberia-Wingard-0243-web.jpg GBV in Liberia Almost 18% of female and just over 13% of male students reported having been asked for sex to get a better grade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448165323-F3DMBQKFENPTYSZS1LGL/140604-lbr-wingard-0043-web.jpg GBV in Liberia New Kru Town, Monrovia, Liberia - June 4, 2014: Melvina Watson, a rape surviver, in her home in New Kru Town in Monrovia, Liberia. She was brutally raped by a man in Buchanon (several hours away by car). Afterwards, she spent a month in the hospital. The man was briefly arrested, but then he was released and threatend her and her family so her mother sent her to live with her aunt in Monrovia to keep her safe. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448166508-1TB9D8WURSYVOEVO0D13/140604-lbr-wingard-0195-web.jpg GBV in Liberia New Kru Town, Monrovia, Liberia - June 4, 2014: Martha Wieh, a rape survivor, in her home in New Kru Town in Monrovia, Liberia with her mother, Elizabeth Ponney. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448171061-A2JHIGU2HN11XJTNHRMF/140605-lbr-timelapse-0385-web.jpg GBV in Liberia Tubmanburg, Monrovia, Liberia - June 5, 2014: When Blessing was 4 months old, her mother, Bendu, was working on a farm in rural Liberia. One day she forgot something at home and left Blessing with a close friend at the farm. When she returned, Blessing would not stop crying. She couldn't figure out what was wrong. Eventually she took off her clothes and discovered bleeding. After an examination at the hospital, they determiend that she had been raped by the man. Blessing spent a month in the hospital recovering. Meanwhile, Bendu filed a report with the police and took him to court. He was released when the family provided evidence that he was underage at the time (approximately 17). Blessing is now 4 years old and lives with her mother and baby sister, Miatta. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428448170533-SL09JT5HCM30UDNT9TIX/140605-lbr-timelapse-0164-web.jpg GBV in Liberia Tubmanburg, Monrovia, Liberia - June 5, 2014: When Blessing was 4 months old, her mother, Bendu, was working on a farm in rural Liberia. One day she forgot something at home and left Blessing with a close friend at the farm. When she returned, Blessing would not stop crying. She couldn't figure out what was wrong. Eventually she took off her clothes and discovered bleeding. After an examination at the hospital, they determiend that she had been raped by the man. Blessing spent a month in the hospital recovering. Meanwhile, Bendu filed a report with the police and took him to court. He was released when the family provided evidence that he was underage at the time (approximately 17). Blessing is now 4 years old and lives with her mother and baby sister, Miatta. 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Ebola Outbreak 2014 - Ebola Outbreak 2014 Location: Liberia Photographer: Morgana Wingard   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428367613898-YB5DX6XN6KTCLHMHS4D5/140926-lbr-wingard-0549-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355228583-OJMEDP6KNPWPOQ52VG9W/140926-lbr-wingard-0473-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Varbah helps members of her burial team suit up in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to collect the body of a woman who is suspected to have died of Ebola in her home. Varbah and her team drive around Monrovia 6 days a week picking up bodies. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355228579-P022NKOT0WESYKPQ2POA/140926-lbr-wingard-0507-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355215887-KIQ3S40688UJJVRD6KLR/140926-lbr-wingard-0374-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Arthington, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Melvin Payoh, Assistant Team Leader, of a Global Communities burial team removes the body of six year old Phelica Anthony, suspected to have died of Ebola, from her family home. Her father was taken to an Ebola treatment unit the day before. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428360119931-2KDO3VRHIZFKIVGK1YNY/140926-lbr-wingard-0543-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Neighbors grieve as Assistant Team Leader, Melvin Payoh, and his burial team from Global Communities collect the body of a woman suspected to have died of Ebola. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355224168-3C6VSQ39AGD91446RUZ4/140926-lbr-wingard-0229-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Varbah helps burial team members suit up in PPE to collect the body of a woman who is suspected to have died of Ebola in her home. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304239742-6EERPA384KPZR2J641AA/140922-lbr-wingard-0447-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: A patient admitted to the Ebola treatment unit at Island Clinic resting in his bed connected to an IV. IV's were a controversial component of treatment during the outbreak because of the increased risk of infection to caregivers. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304239820-X1Y2DBQ8N67ZOJ7WXK3P/140922-lbr-wingard-0649-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428349820490-2YL191RKIU3R4XQEYTYH/140922-lbr-wingard-0422-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: An Ebola patient rests on his bed inside the patient area at the Ebola Treatment Unit at Island Clinic. With the help of USAID, the Government of Liberia and the World Health Organization (WHO) opened the facility on Sunday. Wthin 1 day it is already at capacity with more than 100 patients. USAID has provided 2 generators and other supplies to equip the facility with life saving care. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428349855126-O65STBDUDVDS2RB4K5BA/140922-lbr-wingard-0531-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: Health care workers check on a patient admitted to the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) at the newly opened Island Clinic. With the help of USAID, the Government of Liberia and the World Health Organization (WHO) opened the facility on Sunday. Wthin 1 day it is already at capacity with more than 100 patients. USAID has provided 2 generators and other supplies to equip the facility with life saving care. 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Dola Town is under quarantine after several communities members died of Ebola. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428370633104-ED0MZE40JBHVO0OCZ8J6/140901-lbr-wingard-0108.MOV.Still002.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Dola Town, Liberia - Sept 1, 2014: A father brings his son to the clinic in Dola Town in a wheelbarrow because he is too weak to walk. He called the Ebola hotline and ambulances, but no one will pick him up because all the Ebola treatment centers are full and do not have room to admit new patients. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428368746995-M8XMDPUHSEM4POVPTHDB/140824-lbr-wingard-0014-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 24, 2014: The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, enacted a curfew starting on August 20 for all residents from 9pm to 6am every night. Streets that were normally teaming until late hours of the evening were desolate by 8:30. Night clubs and restaurants virtually shut down for months. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428354285388-K4ETXEUPTM68K9CGAT9L/140922-lbr-wingard-0538-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: Island Clinic in Monrovia opened yesterday by the WHO and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Liberia in response to the surge of patients needing an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). USAID has provided 2 generators and other supplies to equipment the life saving care the ETU will offer. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304244748-43FZBHK7D7YRH4DJGBZG/140922-lbr-wingard-0712-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: A family waits at the entrance to Island Clinic. It opened yesterday and within 1 day it is already at capacity at more than 150 patients. There are still more on the way. Approximately 100 Ebola patients were moved from the nearby Redemption Hospital on Sunday. The facility was setup by the WHO and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Liberia in response to the surge of patients needing an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). USAID has provided 2 generators and other supplies to equip the facility with life saving care. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428356314862-E3FZFPA7VPW9A2LX5T9B/140925-lbr-wingard-0076-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 24, 2014: USAID and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation provide 9,000 household protection kits as part of the response to help Liberians fight Ebola. Each kit includes biohazard bags, soap, PPE, and gloves. They will be distributed across Liberia in partnership with UNICEF. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428351860174-BFOGCT5SW1QFC74VSHPP/141001-lbr-wingard-0131-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: With funding and support from USAID, construction crews worked quickly to build a new Ebola treatment unit on the property of the former Ministry of Defence Building to meet the demand of the increasing Ebola cases in the capitol city. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428361104250-83KOSPHXVZXWFVSXANLZ/141001-lbr-wingard-0197-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: With funding and support from USAID construction crews work quickly to build a new Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia in front of the former Ministry of Defence Building. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352055170-E4IVPR6RNRHCAXEJGVY1/141001-lbr-wingard-0188-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: With funding and support from USAID construction crews work quickly to build a new Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia in front of the former Ministry of Defence Building. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304245735-ML5ZE1XVWPFNZSZ2K2UO/141001-lbr-wingard-0555-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Deborah R. Malac, walks through what became a visiting area for families of Ebola patients inside an Ebola treatment unit build with funding from USAID on the former Ministry of Defence property. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304248216-N5811AWMXFWWB47T501M/141015-lbr-wingard-0250-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Harbel, Liberia - October 15, 2014: A first look inside 25-bed critical care hospital—staffed by U.S. medical professionals—provided by the U.S. government to treat infected Ebola healthcare workers in Liberia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428351092072-940TA87NBF2KAFA11ZS6/141015-lbr-wingard-0758-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Liberian children run as a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey lands in Tubmanburg. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428441518548-0QS9DGPTQNNP93NIPY83/141015-lbr-wingard-0913-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Onboard a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey landing in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428439195142-IP2G1FOOV4RO0ZQGSJJT/141015-lbr-wingard-1670-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: The U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with a team of engineers from the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) constructing an Ebola treatment unit in Tubmanburg, Bomi County. The team of AFL engineers were trained by U.S. Marines under Operation Onward Liberty. Operation Onward Liberty began in January 1, 2010. It is a U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense initiative designed to continue the United States' support to the government of Liberia and its ongoing efforts to transform its military. It is a five-year commitment of continued support and partnership, with mentors cycling through on six-month temporary duty assignments and some service members electing to do yearlong assignments. The construction of the Ebola treatment unit in Tubmanburg took about two to three weeks and had a capacity of up to 100 beds. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304506959-9JDEEHFFN7PTFMAC8P08/141015-lbr-wingard-1814-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Army Major General, Darryl Williams, (commanding general of U.S. Army Africa) chants with Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) engineers constructing a new Ebola treatment unit. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352868490-OLDXIZAY32ENWVNWYX43/141008-lbr-wingard-0158-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: The Bong County Ebola treatment unit run by International Medical Corps with support and funding from USAID. 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The graveyard was built to accommodate cultural practices and provide a place where relatives can visit family members— an important Liberian custom. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428435899782-5RLY6Y19UEKM5ALPFEII/141008-lbr-wingard-0233-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Bong County, Liberia - October 8, 2014: A burial team at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit lower a body from an Ebola patient into a grave in their graveyard built behind the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352088805-0K0V74VIFYFEVW6J0VWZ/141009-lbr-wingard-0138-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: Felicia, a 29 year old Liberian nurse, prepares to go inside the Ebola patient ward to draw blood from confirmed patients. The samples are sent to the U.S. Navy Mobile lab for testing. If a patient receives 2 consecutive negative results they are delcared free of Ebola and released. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371788879-1HVAR2W75F2JW53YMG7A/140830-lbr-wingard-0267-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: All healthcare workers must wear full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) before they cross over into the hot zone or patient area at ELWA 3—the main Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Monrovia. A mirror next to the entrance reminds them to check their PPE for any holes or openings. This could mean the difference between life and death. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371834478-VXC9YXL71QSI98ZT56L2/140830-lbr-wingard-0213-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Noah, a hygenist, suited up in his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) enters the hot zone for the first time at ELWA 3. Only staff dressed in PPE are allowed past this point and nothing that goes in can come out. Already inside, Anneli Erickson, a nurse from Sweden, explains the patient obervations on a sheet from her round to Vernique, a nurse from Canada on the outside, to rewrite the information on a new sheet of paper because the orginal sheet must be destoryed. ELWA 3 was the Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371839977-3H4NV8CVWKM7SSBRCFDR/140830-lbr-wingard-0428-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Agnes, a member of the Psychosocial Team dresses in her Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to prepare to enter the hot zone at ELWA 3— the Ebola treatment unit (ETU) run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Agnes brings gifts of biscuits, juice, and clothes from family members and friends to patients inside the facility. In addition to delivering packages her role is to counsel them and encourage them. She says this is her passion and she has interest in working with her brothers and sister of Liberia. She started at the ETU one week before. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371851132-KITM2THE9TR6HS7F9S72/140830-lbr-wingard-0703-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Health workers in Personal Protective Equipment inside the Ebola hot zone yell observations from patient rounds across the fence to Jens Pederson, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), because papers cannot cross the fence back to the outside world at ELWA— the Ebola treatment unit run by MSF in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352496959-OPYG7PPLRNWETNSNMVOY/141009-lbr-wingard-0439-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: Team leader, Elvis, speaks with a member of the International Medical Corps (IMC) Ebola response team who entered a family home in Mawa Town to check on an elderly woman who became sick after several members of her family have died of Ebola. Several members of the community have already died of Ebola so the response team used the opportunity to educate the town. Photo by Morgana Wingard   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352495611-IL5T2KSUI8061RHTE28H/141009-lbr-wingard-0724-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: A member of the International Medical Corps (IMC) Ebola response team gets sprayed with chlorine after going into a family home in Mawa Town to check on an elderly woman who is sick after several members of her family have died of Ebola. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437792682-LYDLO2DXSIKWD6MDL74Z/140918-lbr-wingard-0461-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Ibrahim (20) and Edmond (30) sell shoes in Waterside Market in downtown Monrovia. Normally at this time of year they are selling shoes for students going back to school. On a typical day they would sell 2-5 pairs. Since the Ebola virus outbreak, sales have plummeted. Schools are closed and Liberians are staying at home as much as possible to avoid exposure. Many people have lost their jobs and are living on their savings to survive. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437792936-JWHPPWQA3BKTX5NNESQA/140918-lbr-wingard-0578-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Anne Benson (49) sells used clothes in Waterside Market to support her 9 children and 5 grandchildren. She lives with her husband and children in Sinkor. Since the Ebola outbreak her sales have plummeted. She used to sell 2,000-3,000LD ($23-$35USD) per day. Now she's lucky if she sells 500 LD ($6 USD) worth of clothes per day. She says only people in town are buying. People are not traveling to the market anymore because of the costs of transportation and the fear of taxis which are often carrying Ebola patients to Ebola treatment units. When she travels to work in a taxi she protects herself from the other passengers in the car with a long sweater. She makes all of her children, except two, stay at home all day to protect them from the Ebola virus and regularly uses hand sanitizer and their bucket of chlorine water at home. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437799733-ESLWVXFTLA007AQZM37H/140918-lbr-wingard-0803-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak 2014 Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Ama and Oretha sell meat in Waterside Market. Since the Ebola outbreak and the quarantine of West Point their sales have plummeted. With the cost of transport and goods going up and sales going down they are making no profit to support their families. 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Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456161134581-3R2MXNCP3WZGJC9J2GXI/image-asset.jpeg USAID: Extreme Possibilities Dhaki Wako Baneta, 24, is one of 12 to 15 million pastoralists living in the arid drylands of Ethiopia. Drought is a constant challenge for the livelihood of her family of 4. USAID is helping families like hers mitigate, adapt to, and recover from environmental stresses. Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456162051405-AEV37UYAZZXQQW1BFDOJ/image-asset.jpeg USAID: Extreme Possibilities 70% of Tanzanians live in rural areas and only 1 in 10 have access to electricity. USAID, through Power Africa, is bringing light, hope and opportunity to energy poor communities like Elizabeth's. 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Now, my children can come home and do their homework because they have lights and the next day they can submit their homework at school." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1429316828676-TLO70NADSCV0XOBMBX5V/image-asset.jpeg USAID: Extreme Possibilities - Dhaki Wako Baneta "My aim is to expand milk marketing and business in the community. I wish my children will be successful in their education and to reach to a certain level in the future endeavor. I am interested to manage my children properly that to live a quality of life. That is my ambition." "My husband used to sell animals for the family needs, but now I am covering the family expenses with the income I earn from sell of milk. As this benefits both of us, he is very happy." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1446311139661-FROPKV6DYTW0X1C7OD33/drc-davey-16-9.jpg USAID: Extreme Possibilities http://www.namuhmedia.com/iraq daily 0.75 2016-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939970187-HN2NGDTRILSOOUKKHA52/151015-iraq-0016-web.jpg Iraq "Everyday I come here and I ask God if anyone can help us." Adul, 60, stands with her deaf and mute granddaughter Rajja, 14, in front of the Baba Chawish Yazidi temple outside of the Khanke refugee camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939970187-HN2NGDTRILSOOUKKHA52/151015-iraq-0016-web.jpg Iraq "Everyday I come here and I ask God if anyone can help us." Adul, 60, stands with her deaf and mute granddaughter Rajja, 14, in front of the Baba Chawish Yazidi temple outside of the Khanke refugee camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445436002265-E7PE9PEMJH71H21SA1HJ/151018-iraq-0103-web.jpg Iraq "I never fought before Daesh (the Islamic State) came. I never wanted to. Now I go to school for 10 days and then go to Sinjar to fight as a Peshmerga for 10 days." Maher, 19, is in 6th grade at a school for internally displaced people in the refugee camp where he lives with his family in northern Iraq. Last time he was in school was in Sinjar a year ago. Today was his first day of school since then, but they have no books and the tents for the classrooms (in the background) are falling down. Him and his two brothers support 11 family members. Maher's brother's wife and their 3 daughters were captured by Daesh (the Islamic State). The oldest is 5 and a half. A few months ago they received a message on Facebook from Daesh saying they could pay $50,000 for them to be released. But, they wanted $6,000 upfront and we figured it was a lie. Ten days after reaching out to us, the Facebook account was closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939969406-27ILQXOJM67VFLPPHQWP/151015-iraq-0053-web.jpg Iraq "Everyone takes photos of me. Thank God my face is great." Khuder, 71, escaped with his family, including 24 grandchildren, in August 2014 when Daesh invaded Sinjar mountain. They now live in makeshift tents outside of Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. There are approximately 20,000 people inside the camp and another 20,000 - 30,000 people living outside the camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940277261-QCT165F395DKISRVJVUC/151014-iraq-0171-web.jpg Iraq "When I play with my beads I remember home and I forget all my problems." Khansa, 70, is a Yazidi refugee from Sinjar mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939978742-4VARV1E5Z9VCKARBX6QD/151015-iraq-0091-web.jpg Iraq "I volunteered with the Sinjar force in the mountain for 3 months after Daesh came as a guard. I learned how to fight when I worked for the Iraqi army for 6 years during the war with Iran." Haji is a Yazidi refugee from Sinjar mountain living in Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434937125-4RIOKKTSZJM0RJS3QYUA/151020-iraq-0017-web.jpg Iraq Nisrine, 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434944717-A7RB68P0Z3I2LHEIOGUH/151020-iraq-0007-web.jpg Iraq Basma, 8 Many of the refugees in northern Iraq are Yazidis -- a Kurdish religious community. They are often considered "devil worshipers" by other religious groups. Under Islamic Law as observed by ISIL, Yazidis are officially given the choice to convert to Sunni Islam or die. The massacre by the Islamic State in the Sinjar Mountains is the 73rd massacre the Yazidis have faced. Every Yazidi you meet has a story of a mother, father, brother or sister who was or is held captive or murdered by the Islamic State. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434955133-VCELJZXV7WSAHH3QUI12/151020-iraq-0032-web.jpg Iraq Suham, 9 Most of the internally displaced children in northern Iraq have missed an entire year of school. The Iraqi government and humanitarian organizations have scrambled to setup temporary schools in refugee camps across northern Iraq but they are ill-equipped -- often lacking basic supplies and qualified teachers attempting to teach overcrowded classrooms in crumbling tents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434958926-7HC9YRZU6V736FV0XW0F/151020-iraq-0041-web.jpg Iraq Susan, 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445437240185-FUU0Y46RZMZQ99EVERS3/151018-iraq-0068-web.jpg Iraq "I haven't received a salary for 4 months. We don't know when we'll get paid again." - Zed (English teacher in a refugee camp for Yazidis in northern Iraq) Teachers hired to teach internally displaced children in Kurdistand have not been paid for over 4 months. The reason is still unclear. Some say the government is stopping salaries to government employees in Kurdistan to prevent the money from passing into the Islamic State's hands. Others say, the government in Baghdad stop sending the money to Kurdistand to pay their employees because they are out of money. Others assert that it's a government conspiracy and the Kurdistan government is holding the money and blaming the Baghdad government. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939992166-NTDK5D0Q7K71OI2OK1VL/151015-iraq-0136-web.jpg Iraq Yazidi refugee in Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. In case you missed it, like me, the Islamic State seized towns in Sinjar on August 3 - 4, 2014. Families fled in the middle of the night to the mountain and hid for 7 - 10 days before running out of resources and walking by foot to the nearest town. Many traveled to Syria before coming back into Kurdistan and eventually settling in refugee camps in Northern Iraq. There are several camps like this one that house approximately 20,000 people. Outside another 30 - 40,000 people have setup makeshift tents, but lack the services (including toilets, water, and showers) found inside the camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940009263-FX182VI0Q280TZY0MUU9/151015-iraq-0158-web.jpg Iraq https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1443635963686-0J59E7EH3E679NZ1WCXR/150930-iraq-0045-web.jpg Iraq "One day when we woke up we saw there was no government, no soldiers, nor any system in the country so we were afraid. We left Syria in 2011 and fled to Lebanon before traveling to Kurdistan in northern Iraq." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1443635965955-PSILL22VN0N7HICLJJTB/150930-iraq-0108-Edit-web.jpg Iraq "I fled Syria in 2011 after being arrested three times for not joining the Syrian army—a mandatory duty for all male Syrians after they complete school. The first two times I managed to escape by un-cuffing myself with a bobby pin I carried to open mailboxes. The third time I had to pay a police officer 10,000 Syrian Lira to get out of jail. I immediately went to a bus station, bought a ticket and traveled across the border to Kurdistan. My family came 11 months later. I'm living in a refugee camp here with my family and working for an NGO helping other refugees." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940006402-CNLVSGSYBDDXRVQBRUNX/151015-iraq-0154-web.jpg Iraq "My son says you must take me with you to fight with the Peshmerga. He's five." Hassan was a construction worker before Daesh invaded Sinjar Mountain in August 2014. He's helped build 16 houses inside Khanke refugee camp where he lives with his family. Now he works with the Peshmerga—the Kurdish military force fighting Daesh in northern Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444943148118-00C3YEGQBGZKXDI3DQLH/151014-iraq-0393-web.jpg Iraq "When Daesh captured us, my mom cut my hair and told them I am a boy so they wouldn't sell me to somewhere else. My dad eventually raised $240,000 to release my mom, my grandmother, my five brothers and I. Eight family members are still there." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939994657-26SO3EK7CN8QVG7GM5D4/151015-iraq-0101-web.jpg Iraq Knife, 16, sells fresh fruits and vegetables with his brother in Khanke refugee camp with their mobile grocery store in the back of a pickup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444944412033-RL8GDLUYCNL158BEN5VL/151014-iraq-0795-web.jpg Iraq https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445435151599-VR9OYUMREVBP2MSILOKK/151020-iraq-0081-web.jpg Iraq Bekam, 8 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories daily 0.75 2018-07-05 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/2018/4/24/dr-sanele-madela monthly 0.5 2020-02-13 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/2016/12/14/nurses-in-nambia monthly 0.5 2020-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836878048-C5MHM2V254V3S9Z2PCMW/161207-namibia-wingard-0329-web.jpg Photo Stories - Nambian Healthcare Workers Olivia Nandy, 67, came out of retirement to help fill the need for more health workers to provide HIV services to patients in northern Namibia to fight their AIDS epidemic. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496838224643-CI6JOBV79D3BRZL2RXY1/161206-namibia-wingard-0164-web.jpg Photo Stories - Nambian Healthcare Workers Paulina Haugo, 67, a nurse in Namibia, came out of retirement after being recruited by IntraHealth in 2016 to bridge the gap of healthcare workers fighting the AIDS epidemic in the country. She provides HIV testing, distributes medicine, and provides counseling and health education to over 800 patients at her small clinic in northern Namibia. Before she arrived in July of 2016, patients had to travel an hour from here to get to the nearest hospital where they could be tested and receive their HIV medication. As a result, many patients defaulted because it was too far and they didn’t have the time or the money. The clinic is now open M-F during normal business hours to serve the Omuntele community. She worked in the community before at a nearby clinic for 34 years and is also a head women in the community so she is very well known. "I have a good relationship with people because I’m already working in the community,” she says. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836918354-UB2UBPCOUG3BBMWQ67R5/161206-namibia-wingard-0309-web.jpg Photo Stories - Nambian Healthcare Workers - Dr. Igor Petrov, 62, chief medical officer at Onandjokwe Hospita ONDANGWA, NAMIBIA: December 6, 2016 – Dr. Igor Petrov, 62, chief medical officer at Onandjokwe Hospital in northern Namibia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496838340537-9YQJV016M5PUNWFPG10Q/161205-namibia-wingard-0418-web.jpg Photo Stories - Nambian Healthcare Workers "When I was in grade 8, I was into two things: fashion and medicine,” says Elina Nantinda, a 25-year-old pharmacy assistant in rural Namibia. “So I decided to study hard. I thought, ‘It would be so nice to work with medicine and to know more about yourself and how medicine works in your body.’” Today she runs the pharmacy at Omuthiya District Hospital’s HIV clinic in northern Namibia, dispensing antiretroviral medicines to a hundred clients per day, on average. People come from miles around—most on foot—for HIV services at Omuthiya. And most come to see Elina at some point. 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The solar power is providing life-saving water purification, a shared refrigerator for food and medicines, a computer for the community, and lights for the cow and goat corrals to frighten away the hyenas. The International Collaborative for Science, Education and the Environment (ICSEE) also manufactures and distributes a chimney stove for Maasai homes designed collaboratively with Maasai women and installed by teams of women from each participating village to reduce the intake of smoke and carbon dioxide when cooking over traditional fires inside the home. Footage by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480675153308-9KCX154DK7KHH0F2HD7B/150601-kenya-wingard-0349-web.jpg Photo Stories - Power Africa - John Njoroge sells solar power solutions to energy poor Kenyans MURANG'A, KENYA: June 1, 2015 - John Njoroge has been selling d.lights since September 2014 at his small hardware shop at the market. He sells approx 20 per month — mostly to women. He has a payment plan available so customers can make deposits until they've saved enough to to purchase their d.light. At home he uses his S20 Family Lantern d.light to feed his chickens and goats in the morning. He also makes tea for his wife and himself. Though their house is connected to the grid, it is unreliable. They are able to use the d.light at night when the main power is out. Some of his clients have used the lights to sell vegetables in the market at night which has significantly increased their savings and income because they don't have to buy batteries anymore and they can sell later at night. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480675154799-IJI9YJV38GWVD3RIJ3FX/150601-kenya-wingard-1139-Edit-web.jpg Photo Stories - Power Africa - Charity Wambui Thing'o teaches children how to read using the li MURANG'A, KENYA: June 1, 2015 - Nancy Wambui, 45, saved for 3 months to buy d.light solar home system, a personal power grid, for her home with the help of her local village women's group. Before the d.light system her husband, Charles Macharia, 51, and her used kerosene lamps which were costly to fuel and painful to their eyes. The first night they had it, their daughter, Paris (17), stayed up until 1am studying. Before she was number 6 in class and now she is number 2. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480675149473-WOQFIA5VOGS9D4JJXIQ8/150528-malawi-wingard-0936-web.jpg Photo Stories - Power Africa - Lucy Sakuda, 47, uses her M-KOPA solar powered light to cook OLORIEN, KAJIADO COUNTY, KENYA - MAY 28, 2015: Lucy Sakuda, 47, is the third wife of her husband Peter -- a Maasai pastoralist. Together they have 7 children. They live in a simple aluminum house 24km from the nearest power source. To charge their phones, it would take all day to get to Kiserian -- the nearest town. Six months ago she convinced her husband to purchase an M-KOPA solar panel. Each kit contains a battery powered 8w system with 3 lights, a phone charging facility, and a chargeable radio. Before they purchased the panel, her children were falling behind in their studies because they couldn't study at night with no light. Now, her children can study at night with the light from the bulbs. 92% of customers report that heir children's ability to study has improved. Her daughter, Nancy, 14, is working hard to stay up on her homework so she can become a lawyer and support her family when she grows up. Before the solar panel, Lucy used kerosene lamps to cook by and see at night but it emitted very minimal light and caused health problems for her family from the smoke and chemicals. On average off grid households spend $200 per year on kerosene. Lucy now uses the light from the bulbs powered by the solar panel to cook at night. She has been able to save so much from not having to buy Kerosene that she was able to purchase new furniture. Every night 200,000 homes and nearly 1 million people in east Africa are using M-KOPA. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480675150859-2X5S6R3DCCPHK0EDDACP/150529-kenya-wingard-0628-web.jpg Photo Stories - Power Africa - New girls bathroom at Mukuru Kwa Njenga Primary School NAIROBI, KENYA - MAY 29, 2015: Amos Nguru, founder of Afrisol Energy, is installing a bio latrine facility at the Mukuru Kwa Njenga Primary School to produce energy. The energy will be used to power computers, building lights, and exterior security lights to keep the neighborhood safer at night. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480675152216-ZISUDICW34ZGPGEZOXUN/150529-kenya-wingard-1324-web.jpg Photo Stories - Power Africa - Amos uses waste from his kitchen at home to grow red worms to ma KISERIAN, KENYA - MAY 29, 2015: Amos Nguru, founder of Afrisol Energy, is installing a bio latrine facility at the Mukuru Kwa Njenga Primary School to produce electricity. The energy will be used to power computers, building lights, and exterior security lights to keep the neighborhood safer at night. At home, Amos has built his own biodigestor. He also makes his own fertilizer to feed his home garden. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/drones-a-helpful-humanitarian-tool monthly 0.5 2018-11-22 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/under-the-knife-in-tanzania monthly 0.5 2018-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1532612205238-UESU1NWJA9PNT38BWDYZ/20180512-tanzania-estey+3360.JPG Photo Stories - Under the Knife in Tanzania http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/learning-tour-to-zambia monthly 0.5 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522424246532-H385Z2RCQH0OSO72I2IJ/ZAM-2018-SG-1045.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia CHONGWE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation sit near the home of Memory Hachitamba while watching her participate in a SMAG home visit simulation about birth planning near the Kotaba Health Facility in Chongwe. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410107027-IN7OM8R9Q7FVYOBHGVWF/ZAM-2018-SG-1081.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia CHONGWE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation watch as Dennis Chulu, left, goes over a birth planning story with David Hachitamba, right, and his wife, Memory Hachitamba, second from right, during a SMAG home visit simulation near the Hachichamba's house in Chongwe. Photo by Sarah Grile.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410106094-GXNLMSS7VU2LO76SF702/ZAM-2018-SG-1104.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia CHONGWE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - The CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation watch a simulation acted out by a SMAG member and member of the Chongwe community about a HIV problem. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410124355-KVAIJVFTYCUAPJNZQHMY/ZAM-2018-SG-1000.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia CHONGWE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Laurel Sakai, center, Senior Counsel on the Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions for Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), sits with other members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation prior to watching a SMAG home visit simulation at Memory Hachitamba's house near the Kotaba Health Facility in Chongwe. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410078464-QQ25EKVA3NNRS1X14755/ZAM-2018-SG-1634.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - The CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation visits a DREAMS Center in Lusaka, Zambia on Feb. 19, 2018 to learn more about how the center’s services play an important role in the community for adolescent girls and young women. Here, Liz Leibowitz, top center, Foreign Affairs Legislative Assistant for Rep. Nita Lowey, dances with girls from the DREAMS program and other CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation members after touring the center's facility. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410099811-MM9DZV0ATPIPJXTIXP9F/ZAM-2018-SG-1216.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Participants of the DREAMS Center in Lusaka dance for the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation at the center on Feb. 19, 2018. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410134460-G9XPQ3O4BX6AW7WM2FIA/ZAM-2018-SG-0434.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 18, 2018 - Cecilia Mulenga, left, Program Staff at the DREAMS Center, and Prudence Moonga, right, Manager at the DREAMS Center, talk to each other while at the center in Lusaka. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410090238-5657LTS7YN5856GPXSBR/ZAM-2018-SG-1298.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Members of the DREAMS Center program hang out outside the center after meeting with the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410144447-NZHUP079TFQWAG7FHZZ3/ZAM-2018-SG-0272.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 18, 2018 - Ana (name has been changed to conceal her identity) plays with her son while at the DREAMS Center in Lusaka. Before Ana started attending the DREAMS program, she had a sister who was HIV positive. Since being educated at DREAMS, she has learned how how the disease is contracted and that she does not have to be afraid. She wishes she had this information before so she would not have been scared of her sister before her death. She now braids hair from home for a living and hopes to work at the DREAMS Center someday to educate people about HIV. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410089395-06NSFMPI3P9QO8L3G0DH/ZAM-2018-SG-1332.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Nurse Irene Kasango talks to the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation about the contraceptives that are given out at the DREAMS Center in Lusaka. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410081413-KR7LCXD2K6GQJGL5KLEF/ZAM-2018-SG-1510.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 19, 2018 - Mia R. Keeys, third from right, Health Policy Advisor to Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL), dances with girls from the DREAMS Center and other CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation members after touring the center's facility. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410069532-HLIN9OLEORE7U1QGTOQC/ZAM-2018-SG-2307.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia watch a dance presentation while visiting the One-Stop GBV Center in Livingstone. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410052734-1Z4HFCN70FFIKB0Z6K71/ZAM-2018-SG-2323.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia watch a dance presentation while visiting the One-Stop GBV Center in Livingstone. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410052734-5Y8O8HHDWHRF9YBF104I/ZAM-2018-SG-2325.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Liz Leibowitz, center left, Foreign Affairs Legislative Assistant for Rep. Nita Lowey, Andy Vogt, center right, a health professional staff member on the U.S. Commitee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and other members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia watch a dance presentation while visiting the One-Stop GBV Center in Livingstone. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410045979-CHIQBLYUR1HQ00B14BH9/ZAM-2018-SG-2406.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia watch a community drama simulation about battery, abuse towards women and men and early marriage while visiting the One-Stop GBV Center in Livingstone. The delegation also learned how the interactive dramas are used in community outreach to raise awareness. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410023655-4NQJ4J0WEQ4H7ML19PPG/ZAM-2018-SG-2607.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia visit a CARE Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) Group to gain a better of how a VSLA group empowers Zambian women by helping them to be financially self-sufficient through savings-led approaches. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410010351-EBOQF266BGJ4O1X0F57R/ZAM-2018-SG-2709.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 - Chuma Simukale, of Livingstone, is a member of the CARE Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) Group. Although the program was phased out in 2016, the savings group remains intact and savings activities continue to this day, demonstrating the impact and sustainability of the model in rural Zambia. Photo by Sarah Grile.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410031471-Q4D5UIMPSBSUV9XYI7LL/ZAM-2018-SG-2546.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA: Feb. 20, 2018 -Kachana Chenbe, left, of Livingstone, who is part of the CARE Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) Group, participates in a VSLA meeting simulation for the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation on Feb. 20, 2018. The VSLA group is part of a CARE program in the Livingstone District that was phased out in 2016. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410010849-C5L73UDYSVN20I6HJ30Q/ZAM-2018-SG-3246.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia KALOMO, ZAMBIA: Feb. 21, 2018 - Anna Dietderich, Legislative Correspondant for U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), gives a high five to a boy in the community after arriving to the CARE Scaling Up Nutrition Intervention (SUNI) program in Kalomo, Zambia. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410003292-WDFFZXIDZGV0Z3F9PKU2/ZAM-2018-SG-3267.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia KALOMO, ZAMBIA: Feb. 21, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia visit the CARE Scaling Up Nutrition Intervention (SUNI) program in Kalomo, Zambia. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522410001202-FO7LTDSPE8U3BJ3O9WEC/ZAM-2018-SG-3358.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia KALOMO, ZAMBIA: Feb. 21, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia visit the CARE Scaling Up Nutrition Intervention (SUNI) program in Kalomo, Zambia. Here, the delegation watches the process of a baby being weighed. The clinic keeps track each child's weight and measurement on cards, helping to monitor growth. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1523347920566-NKK13NPD77JICNP3WHTY/ZAM-2018-SG-4578_web.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia CHIPATA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 22, 2018 - CARE International Zambia and Chipata Water Trust signed a partnership agreement in 2016 to pilot the water-waste tariff bundling revenue method in the Chipata settlement of Lusaka District. CARE will provide $42,000 to the water trust over a 2 year period to support activities for facilitating the tariff bundling revenue collection method. Here, children run to collect water in front of a Chipata Water Trust sign that lists CARE as a financial supporter since 1996. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522409984986-HS6K1NGP13ZRNKW9RP80/ZAM-2018-SG-3772.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 22, 2018 - Members of the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia visit the UNFPA supported Youth Safe-Space Center to meet with girls who are participating in the program. Here, Laura Updergrove, center, Foreign Policy Advisor for Senator Jeff Merkley, speaks with a girl in the program. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1522409986419-52JK9B35I0AHV5S93PMT/ZAM-2018-SG-4240.jpg Photo Stories - CARE Learning Tour to Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA: Feb. 22, 2018 - A group of girls, who all participate in the UNFPA Youth Safe-Space Center program, dance and sing while saying goodbye to the CARE Learning Tour to Zambia delegation at the center. Photo by Sarah Grile. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/asylum-seekers monthly 0.5 2018-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939970187-HN2NGDTRILSOOUKKHA52/151015-iraq-0016-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "Everyday I come here and I ask God if anyone can help us." Adul, 60, stands with her deaf and mute granddaughter Rajja, 14, in front of the Baba Chawish Yazidi temple outside of the Khanke refugee camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445436002265-E7PE9PEMJH71H21SA1HJ/151018-iraq-0103-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "I never fought before Daesh (the Islamic State) came. I never wanted to. Now I go to school for 10 days and then go to Sinjar to fight as a Peshmerga for 10 days." Maher, 19, is in 6th grade at a school for internally displaced people in the refugee camp where he lives with his family in northern Iraq. Last time he was in school was in Sinjar a year ago. Today was his first day of school since then, but they have no books and the tents for the classrooms (in the background) are falling down. Him and his two brothers support 11 family members. Maher's brother's wife and their 3 daughters were captured by Daesh (the Islamic State). The oldest is 5 and a half. A few months ago they received a message on Facebook from Daesh saying they could pay $50,000 for them to be released. But, they wanted $6,000 upfront and we figured it was a lie. Ten days after reaching out to us, the Facebook account was closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939969406-27ILQXOJM67VFLPPHQWP/151015-iraq-0053-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "Everyone takes photos of me. Thank God my face is great." Khuder, 71, escaped with his family, including 24 grandchildren, in August 2014 when Daesh invaded Sinjar mountain. They now live in makeshift tents outside of Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. There are approximately 20,000 people inside the camp and another 20,000 - 30,000 people living outside the camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940277261-QCT165F395DKISRVJVUC/151014-iraq-0171-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "When I play with my beads I remember home and I forget all my problems." Khansa, 70, is a Yazidi refugee from Sinjar mountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939978742-4VARV1E5Z9VCKARBX6QD/151015-iraq-0091-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "I volunteered with the Sinjar force in the mountain for 3 months after Daesh came as a guard. I learned how to fight when I worked for the Iraqi army for 6 years during the war with Iran." Haji is a Yazidi refugee from Sinjar mountain living in Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434937125-4RIOKKTSZJM0RJS3QYUA/151020-iraq-0017-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Nisrine, 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434944717-A7RB68P0Z3I2LHEIOGUH/151020-iraq-0007-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Basma, 8 Many of the refugees in northern Iraq are Yazidis -- a Kurdish religious community. They are often considered "devil worshipers" by other religious groups. Under Islamic Law as observed by ISIL, Yazidis are officially given the choice to convert to Sunni Islam or die. The massacre by the Islamic State in the Sinjar Mountains is the 73rd massacre the Yazidis have faced. Every Yazidi you meet has a story of a mother, father, brother or sister who was or is held captive or murdered by the Islamic State. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434955133-VCELJZXV7WSAHH3QUI12/151020-iraq-0032-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Suham, 9 Most of the internally displaced children in northern Iraq have missed an entire year of school. The Iraqi government and humanitarian organizations have scrambled to setup temporary schools in refugee camps across northern Iraq but they are ill-equipped -- often lacking basic supplies and qualified teachers attempting to teach overcrowded classrooms in crumbling tents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445434958926-7HC9YRZU6V736FV0XW0F/151020-iraq-0041-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Susan, 10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445437240185-FUU0Y46RZMZQ99EVERS3/151018-iraq-0068-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "I haven't received a salary for 4 months. We don't know when we'll get paid again." - Zed (English teacher in a refugee camp for Yazidis in northern Iraq) Teachers hired to teach internally displaced children in Kurdistand have not been paid for over 4 months. The reason is still unclear. Some say the government is stopping salaries to government employees in Kurdistan to prevent the money from passing into the Islamic State's hands. Others say, the government in Baghdad stop sending the money to Kurdistand to pay their employees because they are out of money. Others assert that it's a government conspiracy and the Kurdistan government is holding the money and blaming the Baghdad government. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939992166-NTDK5D0Q7K71OI2OK1VL/151015-iraq-0136-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Yazidi refugee in Khanke refugee camp in northern Iraq. In case you missed it, like me, the Islamic State seized towns in Sinjar on August 3 - 4, 2014. Families fled in the middle of the night to the mountain and hid for 7 - 10 days before running out of resources and walking by foot to the nearest town. Many traveled to Syria before coming back into Kurdistan and eventually settling in refugee camps in Northern Iraq. There are several camps like this one that house approximately 20,000 people. Outside another 30 - 40,000 people have setup makeshift tents, but lack the services (including toilets, water, and showers) found inside the camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940009263-FX182VI0Q280TZY0MUU9/151015-iraq-0158-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1443635963686-0J59E7EH3E679NZ1WCXR/150930-iraq-0045-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "One day when we woke up we saw there was no government, no soldiers, nor any system in the country so we were afraid. We left Syria in 2011 and fled to Lebanon before traveling to Kurdistan in northern Iraq." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1443635965955-PSILL22VN0N7HICLJJTB/150930-iraq-0108-Edit-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "I fled Syria in 2011 after being arrested three times for not joining the Syrian army—a mandatory duty for all male Syrians after they complete school. The first two times I managed to escape by un-cuffing myself with a bobby pin I carried to open mailboxes. The third time I had to pay a police officer 10,000 Syrian Lira to get out of jail. I immediately went to a bus station, bought a ticket and traveled across the border to Kurdistan. My family came 11 months later. I'm living in a refugee camp here with my family and working for an NGO helping other refugees." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444940006402-CNLVSGSYBDDXRVQBRUNX/151015-iraq-0154-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "My son says you must take me with you to fight with the Peshmerga. He's five." Hassan was a construction worker before Daesh invaded Sinjar Mountain in August 2014. He's helped build 16 houses inside Khanke refugee camp where he lives with his family. Now he works with the Peshmerga—the Kurdish military force fighting Daesh in northern Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444943148118-00C3YEGQBGZKXDI3DQLH/151014-iraq-0393-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? "When Daesh captured us, my mom cut my hair and told them I am a boy so they wouldn't sell me to somewhere else. My dad eventually raised $240,000 to release my mom, my grandmother, my five brothers and I. Eight family members are still there." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444939994657-26SO3EK7CN8QVG7GM5D4/151015-iraq-0101-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Knife, 16, sells fresh fruits and vegetables with his brother in Khanke refugee camp with their mobile grocery store in the back of a pickup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1444944412033-RL8GDLUYCNL158BEN5VL/151014-iraq-0795-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1445435151599-VR9OYUMREVBP2MSILOKK/151020-iraq-0081-web.jpg Photo Stories - Can anyone help us? Bekam, 8 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/karamojas-mothers monthly 0.5 2017-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654854978-OCRDL41PBTFL3X4JZDBT/Intrahealth_Uganda_345.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8099 Angolere Lucy, who is pregnant with her fifth child, photographed outside the maternity ward at the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654870236-W1D42ACA23IE70L3QGJE/Intrahealth_Uganda_372.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8382 Atim Jane, a 38 year old nursing officer at rhe Nadunget 3 health center sorts through paperwork in one of the wards. Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654871543-MXFEMH3GQEZ65F2AKTEY/Intrahealth_Uganda_374.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8420 Atim Jane, a 38 year old nursing officer, photographed in one of the wards of the Nadunget health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654885156-2AA8KVG3G2FKL2X0XARR/Intrahealth_Uganda_382.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8519 Najore Ruth, 45, a nursing assistant, sits with Angolere Lucy, who had her fifth baby overnight in the maternity ward of the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654886109-GYLL51R60EPB5GI8V5PR/Intrahealth_Uganda_388.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8633 Munges Veronica, 24, holds her newborn baby, Teko, with Atim Jane, a 38 year old nursing officer at the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654904519-2UBU58I9CPKITQ1ZAZZZ/Intrahealth_Uganda_397.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8709 Najore Ruth, 45, a nursing assistant, plays with baby Nakoru, born overnight to 34 year old Sagal Paulina in the maternity ward of the Nadunget Health Center in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654904518-AF3MQC00J0PCCEA4NL2S/Intrahealth_Uganda_398.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8717 Munges Veronica, 24, holds her newborn baby, Teko, in the maternity ward of the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1498654910710-X2S4D03O31JTV0091ZEX/Intrahealth_Uganda_409.JPG Photo Stories - Karamoja’s Mothers - DSC_8772 Traditional homes outside Moroto in the Karamoja region of Uganda. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/intrahealth-uganda monthly 0.5 2018-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098782522-B4A4BEQAA1NOO5NEUSKW/1+-Intrahealth_Uganda_022.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Naigaga Florence, a nursing officer, photographed in the emergecny ward at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098787103-7KM6C4JJCAI76LHWYS8H/2+-Intrahealth_Uganda_062.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Nursing staff pose for a picture at the Jinja Regional Referral Hopsital in Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098813573-YVW5S6MQKY0FRC265IUW/3+-Intrahealth_Uganda_085.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Kakungulu Semei, a lab assistant, takes a blood sample from a patient at the Busowobi health center in Iganga District, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098823855-SIM4K2BGTGPDU8MQE8H0/4+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_249.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers A member of staff pushes a medical trolley between wards at the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098844255-QJ5QWRT37L2AVUIQ3OPB/5+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_174.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Cheptoyek Tom Albert, a 30 year old student at the Soroti Pharmacy School, photographed in the school’s lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098852355-CJ1PMBZDTBD2C37DOLVR/6+-Intrahealth_Uganda_047.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Dioweri Kalikumadi smiles as she holds her one-day old granddaughter in the maternity ward of the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098870728-YYBQCD2SPIDTD7G0RLXI/7+-Intrahealth_Uganda_012.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers A staff member of the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital takes a blood sample for an HIV test. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098879553-IPAO8IP6JWWO0RIVMMT6/8+-Intrahealth_Uganda_051.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Pande Mercy, a nurse at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, inserts a canula in a patient’s hand in the maternity ward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098904917-289S3M9XAXDSGG837TZS/9+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_243.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Lab Assistant David Modo takes a blood sample from a patient at the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098912679-T13RTZL3AOT8ACHN5WNZ/10+-Intrahealth_Uganda_330.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Students on Intrahealth-funded scholarships at the Matany School of Nursing and Midwifery in Karamoja, Uganda, pose for a picture in front of the school building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098939464-KGLX28GCAUC7MY6CTUWO/11+-Intrahealth_Uganda_079.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Justine Kaboole, regional focal person for Hris in Iganga, Uganda, uses the software on her comuter at the DHO’s headquarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098946038-ZPRU30OSKQDQYXOM6CL2/12+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_028.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Sampa Hellen, Senior Orthopaedic officer at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, attends to a child with an arm complaint. Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098974735-4NZWSVT927MJJ3ATS8XX/13+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_060.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Annet Kitaliku, Senior Nursing Officer in charge of Ward 4 (general medical care), photographed in her ward at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099024933-PHA4BCFNCH0HSNUQ23F3/15+-Intrahealth_Uganda_266.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Students work during a class at the Matany School of Nursing and Midwifery in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495098999465-MIIXW8F2S6Q8PFLR9RTV/14+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_037.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Nursing assistant Gubiika Teopista, photographed in the outpatient department of the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital in Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099051576-J5ZM10DS8GA0NZ2QQKBK/16+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_142.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Students of the Soroti Pharmacy Schoolrelax and revise in the shade of a tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099127639-FC8S71IC4S4H8IOAH9VJ/20+-Intrahealth_Uganda_232.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Midwife Lotukei Anna Grace dispenses a patient’s medications in the maternity ward of the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099068336-JUXAXA4805PSXCRRL7WZ/17+-Intrahealth_Uganda_236.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Midwife Lotukei Anna Grace interacts with Lotimong Anna, who recently gave birth to twins at the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099094163-3863WYE9I0RYSEKPLU9I/18+-Intrahealth_Uganda_065.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers A team of security guards pose for a picture at the entrance to the Jinja Regional Referral Hopsital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099100019-2MPN99Z0R1IHTBOMCWZL/19+-Intrahealth_Uganda_159.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Dennis Odongo, 24, a student of the Soroti Pharmacy School, takes part in a practical excercise in the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099133823-JYQRAX8EOYXTTV25K006/21+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_016.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Enrolled midwife Kayuma Jane performs a check-up on a pregnant woman, Kelea Kakamazi, at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital in Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099157897-MZ01CEI49C6AD56RYL51/22+-Intrahealth_Uganda_207.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Omiat Mackay, a staff member of the Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, processes the laundry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099177681-019DBYN2DLJGGORS7WB5/23+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_068.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Nurses pose for a picture at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital in Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099202909-1LDH9JDCYWPYZ1US4LEK/24+-Intrahealth_Uganda_392.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Munges Veronica, 24, holds her newborn baby, Teko, with Atim Jane, a 38 year old nursing officer at the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099206666-W24D3IUVBWUQWMT4NLN1/25+-Intrahealth_Uganda_114.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Justine Kaboole, regional focal person for Hris in Iganga, pohotographed at the Iganga General Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099239906-KJEMT0XPDQQ7TM0XKIA3/26+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_092.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Mwiru Ali, a lab assistant, inspects a blood sample at the Busowobi health center in Iganga District, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099233304-S6DR5O0UFFS0KGLVAE4X/27+-Intrahealth_Uganda_121.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Nikiria Caoline, 21, a student of the Soroti Pharmacy School, takes notes during a class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099288917-D5063YDNVILNKSTB8BE2/28+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_235.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers A staff member prepares pateitns’ medications in the maternity ward of the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099302125-4NB94PID3YA1BDSRGCWS/29+-Intrahealth_Uganda_426.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Edweo Sam, 32, a clinical instructor at the Good Samaritan School of Nursing & Midwifery in Lira, Uganda, teaches students how to take a patient’s vital signs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099322590-J5YNSGVGXXNIGSF52P4F/30+-Intrahealth_Uganda_487.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Beatrice Aciro, midwife and graduate of the Good Samaritan School of Nursing & Midwifery, photographed with her sister. Lira, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099331709-UTWUB23ZOU250O5Q3Y4B/31+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_133.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Helen Namuyaba, 22, a student at the Soroti Pharmacy School, takes notes during a class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099351882-V0W7EPVAHJKIXATYTLDJ/32+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_248.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Abraham Atirak, 26, a lab assistant at the Matany hospital in Karamoja, Uganda, tests blood samples to ascertain the blood group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099372867-E9ZW5SX8F72ZD6X3SXKD/33+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_048.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Midwife Mary Babiry photographed in the maternity ward of the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital in Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099381195-S1UIL24FS4D5JBCHLWS6/34+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_385.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Najore Ruth, 45, a nursing assistant, sits with Angolere Lucy, who had her fifth baby overnight in the maternity ward of the Nadunget Health Center 3 in Karamoja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099399782-0QHOICXI8N5XEMYRVZ2V/35+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_170.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Atim Olive, 24, a student at the Soroti Pharmacy School, photographed in the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099412077-KQ49V76CXOI4J95FJAVD/36+-Intrahealth_Uganda_151.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Dennis Odongo, 24, a student of the Soroti Pharmacy School, meets Christine Alura, IntraHealth Uganda Nursing and Midwifery program officer, for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099472002-T7COAURRDBOR02ZK2VK8/39+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_097.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Kauma Sumaya, photographed at the Busowobi health center in Iganga District, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099437861-2VVVFWTA99CV4RWCQOHG/37+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_223.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Augustine Egou (l), principal of Soroti Pharmacy School, photographed with a colleague in Soroti town, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099463311-NHNF3RYDT4WSWBFNL0PL/38+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_488.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Staff of the Jinja General Referral Hospital poses for a portrait. Jinja, Uganda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1495099485208-AT32CYYH3CVSVW8BIG7R/40+-+Intrahealth_Uganda_197.jpg Photo Stories - Celebrating Uganda's Health Workers Students attend a class at the Soroti Pharmacy School. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/through-the-pharmacy-window monthly 0.5 2018-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496836917042-0LRFDCDBO9GMZDA31PEZ/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Through the Pharmacy Window https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496836345511-PVZ713FVU6YM98AQTDPT/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Through the Pharmacy Window https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496836841887-DOWOVW46P5M4D29YL7PV/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Through the Pharmacy Window http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/2017/3/10/at-one-namibian-hospital-shorter-lines-healthier-clients monthly 0.5 2018-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150844959-G2ZW3XOX14QNA7BT6PIE/161206-namibia-wingard-0351-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Onandjokwe Hospital serves as the primary health care center for the Onandjokwe District of the Oshikoto Region, which spans about 25,000 kilometers. Before decentralization, it was the only place where over 81,000 people could get HIV-related services. This photo was taken after one of the few rains during what should have been the region’s rainy season. By the next morning, the ground was bone dry once more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489151120521-ZEU6JHD9EB6BMHUMPK6R/161208-namibia-wingard-0115-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Today the waiting room at Onandjokwe’s Shanamutango HIV clinic isn’t crowded. Wait times have dropped drastically since the hospital hired additional staff and began making services available beyond the central hospital location. Here nurse Ruusa Shipena holds an HIV-negative infant while the baby’s mother receives care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150940795-AK1Y0V1ZSY4YM6MYXEPH/161208-namibia-wingard-0245-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Shanamutango HIV clinic helps HIV-positive mothers like Katrina Kambunde, 42, prevent transmitting the virus to their babies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489151293175-QMRCKE6FL11PO2ICQ1XA/161208-namibia-wingard-0162-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Nurse Ruusa Shipena has more time to spend with her clients, including Katrina Kambunde, 42. Katrina is HIV-positive, but thanks to the services at Shanamutango HIV clinic, her baby was born HIV-negative. “We were short on the ground, especially when it came to nurses and admin staff,” Shipena says. “Then IntraHealth came in and gave us more staff. Now some can draw blood, while some can do counseling, while some do pediatrics. To us, it’s our rescue.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150948663-8D78GA8APQYSDIYG8IVZ/161208-namibia-wingard-0336-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Loide Iikuyu, right, with her daughters Loide (left) and Selma. When the younger Loide was 10 years old, her mother explained to her how and why she came to be HIV-positive. “I told her it was because of mother-to-child transmission,” the elder Loide says, “and that it was not her fault.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150945756-Q9C2ER60XDR28BFXC3A3/161208-namibia-wingard-0276-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Loide Likuyu (center) talks with health workers at Shanamutango HIV clinic at Onandjokwe Hospital, Namibia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150937763-HKPXG902T2BEBR4KGTYQ/161208-namibia-wingard-0259-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients Fiona, a nurse at Shanamutango center - the ART facility aT Onandjokwe Hospital in northern Namibia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489150963656-4NRW61S7C9RH0QHXKL1G/161208-namibia-wingard-0407-web.jpg Photo Stories - At One Namibian Hospital, Shorter Lines, Healthier Clients CD4 machine at Onanjokwe Hospital. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/one-familys-quiet-quest-for-namibias-hiv-free-generation monthly 0.5 2017-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1489071234016-HQSYC3HHYLXJJQCOFNCF/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - One Family’s Quiet Quest for Namibia’s HIV-Free Generation http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/faces-of-everyday-bangladesh monthly 0.5 2017-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249377968-GWUFF2GCMMTQNFFNL7QB/morgana_wingard_01.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249377940-GRJYFG5GOUUECWZAJ41V/morgana_wingard_02.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249379613-QXJZVUEJILK61K4JYZ2D/morgana_wingard_03.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249383537-MRFFM20GUM3WDZW8D14J/morgana_wingard_05.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249380510-B1DMDWG1SXT8KXQRVBTR/morgana_wingard_04.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249375369-HXEGQ5V5MCTK6ZGPDRME/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0216.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249372039-WG5VL293E2VV29NOYZAI/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0122.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249373501-PQ4YSJBKPLUA2LP2TZZB/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0178.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249832589-65MQJR3JV7LN3PK6NLQQ/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0032.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249836250-X5U5M7GMJNGBEAFPYYWT/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0055.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249841448-C5T8M9UFHEPJQBF41G9A/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0098.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487249956080-PJ8ZE3E6WJAC3KGGQDJB/170210-bangladesh-wingard-0134.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487250251331-ACRNOK0KKO812G3MRGXT/170213-bangladesh-wingard-0024.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487250565837-BV6CU8NO0BCGEQ82E6GZ/170213-bangladesh-wingard-0147.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1487250372735-3YTHCIO3JHZQ01UIIF8D/170213-bangladesh-wingard-0152.jpg Photo Stories - Faces of Everyday Bangladesh http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/cost-of-war monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514200577-9P3S28W2YEX413AX7ID2/01+SSD-2016-JE-0494-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War CARE has Mobile Health Teams who camp in remote villages to deliver medical aid to distant and disenfranchised communities outside of the town of Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan. Many of these communities would otherwise receive no health care. Team members tell of stories in which people walked with ill patience 24 hours to reach the clinics. Without CARE and it’s team of dedicated local health professional many people would never receive any medical attention. Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514200329-Z8QIWSI24U6PX47804IJ/02+SSD-2016-JE-0166-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War Video featured women: Two women we featured working in the local market in Mankien who prepare a food like porridge called wal wala they sell. Both are widows and working together to support their children. Tepitha is the younger (though probably not 18 like she claims) and Martha is the older. We followed Tepitha to the CARE supported clinic for her youngest childs check up the second day. “My name is Tepitha Nyahok, I am 18 years old, I work as a cook. I am just bringing up my children with this cooking” “This is the work I am depending on. This cooking is the only source for my income. Even if I am sick I still have to work.” “I am bringing up my children alone because their father has died. “ “I have no other job. I only cook. Even if I am sick I will cook. Because if I do not cook my children will die of hunger.” “I was staying in the village when the fighting happened. We ran to the bush. “When the guns subside we came back and everything was burned down. “ “When the fighting stopped we came to the town and that is when I started this resturaunt. “ “The market is very difficult because if you don’t have any where to go you will just continue.” “Brining them up is very tough. If I get something small I give it to them. How I will raise them, I don’t know. Only luck will tell.” “Even now I cannot think about their school. They are just staying at home. Even the clothes are expensive.” “The only thing I can think about is providing them food and keeping them healthy.” “The work that we are doing we do together as sister’s. We work together because we are widows. We don’t quarrel among ourselves. What we are doing is for our children. When we get something small we divide. We put some towards the business and give some to our children.” “My name is Martha Nyapan, I am 38 years old, I have 13 kids, all born from me.” “That is why we are working together. If she doesn’t have anything I give to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514203709-RMBRLPJ12A94L6QR5NMF/04+edit+R0177991-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War General vision of life around the town of Mankien, Unity state, South Sudan. Images include areals of the country side, the largest pastorialist grasslands, the high water flooding affecting many of the areas inhabitants, cows grazing, children collecting water and images of daily life. Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514203984-WENERMT3G5NYA602NZSR/05+edit+R0177918-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514205437-WD6OJPG2FZSHI2V39R9D/06+edit+R0177957-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514206166-87ZOXR2VYKXYTNJW1ZC7/07+SSD-2016-JE-0045-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War General vision of life around the town of Mankien, Unity state, South Sudan. Images include areals of the country side, the largest pastorialist grasslands, the high water flooding affecting many of the areas inhabitants, cows grazing, children collecting water and images of daily life. Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514206794-2T44OLTV92V0GZ7F0MWN/08+SSD-2016-JE-0138-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War Video featured women: Two women we featured working in the local market in Mankien who prepare a food like porridge called wal wala they sell. Both are widows and working together to support their children. Tepitha is the younger (though probably not 18 like she claims) and Martha is the older. We followed Tepitha to the CARE supported clinic for her youngest childs check up the second day. “My name is Tepitha Nyahok, I am 18 years old, I work as a cook. I am just bringing up my children with this cooking” “This is the work I am depending on. This cooking is the only source for my income. Even if I am sick I still have to work.” “I am bringing up my children alone because their father has died. “ “I have no other job. I only cook. Even if I am sick I will cook. Because if I do not cook my children will die of hunger.” “I was staying in the village when the fighting happened. We ran to the bush. “When the guns subside we came back and everything was burned down. “ “When the fighting stopped we came to the town and that is when I started this resturaunt. “ “The market is very difficult because if you don’t have any where to go you will just continue.” “Brining them up is very tough. If I get something small I give it to them. How I will raise them, I don’t know. Only luck will tell.” “Even now I cannot think about their school. They are just staying at home. Even the clothes are expensive.” “The only thing I can think about is providing them food and keeping them healthy.” “The work that we are doing we do together as sister’s. We work together because we are widows. We don’t quarrel among ourselves. What we are doing is for our children. When we get something small we divide. We put some towards the business and give some to our children.” “My name is Martha Nyapan, I am 38 years old, I have 13 kids, all born from me.” “That is why we are working together. If she doesn’t have anything I give to her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514207509-UICCCB8CQ3DUWZ2GD1IJ/09+SSD-2016-JE-0447-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War CARE has Mobile Health Teams who camp in remote villages to deliver medical aid to distant and disenfranchised communities outside of the town of Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan. Many of these communities would otherwise receive no health care. Team members tell of stories in which people walked with ill patience 24 hours to reach the clinics. Without CARE and it’s team of dedicated local health professional many people would never receive any medical attention. Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485514208377-78SWALXJRLJCSFKG76A0/10+SSD-2016-JE-0057-web.JPG Photo Stories - The Cost of War General vision of life around the town of Mankien, Unity state, South Sudan. Images include areals of the country side, the largest pastorialist grasslands, the high water flooding affecting many of the areas inhabitants, cows grazing, children collecting water and images of daily life. Background: CARE has been operating in Southern Sudan since 1993, providing humanitarian relief to internally displaced people in Western Equatoria, Jonglei State and Upper Nile. Currently the country with the highest inflation rate at over 700% the ongoing civil war within the country has led to wide spread insecurity, hunger, and exploitation of women and girls. 1.6 million people are currently displaced and 5.1 million people are in need of aid. CARE is working in Health, Nutrition, Food and Security, Livlihoods, Peace Building and Gender. {The below images were made in and around Mankien, Unity State, South Sudan during November 2016. The family’s featured had been displaced in fighting two years ago, and for many had fled unusually high flooding from this seasons rains which destroyed both homes and crops. While we were there military defections occurred with the fear of conflict reigniting in the coming months.} Photo by Josh Estey http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/portraits-of-power monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516387280-KZ0P214HUK8CRFPTV5EP/01+ETH-2016-JE-0702.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power (random neighbors) 15 April 2016 – In Tula Gorbe village, Sidama, a southern region of Ethiopia, Asanageche Aseffa (wife of Guluna Gademo), 40, has changed her life. She says ‘I raise poultry and my husband and I produce honey. Life now is incomparable with the past. In the past I used to work on other people’s farms. Now I am rich. I have big false banana. We are planning to build a new house. I am sending my children to a good school. We have big goats, sheep and cows. What you see here is all mine. I even have a house in town and another piece of land. I have always wanted to teach my children in a good school and now they are students at the best school available.” 15 April 2016 - In Sidama, a southern region of Ethiopia, Guluna Gademo (husband of Asanageche Aseffa), 40, of Tula Gorbe village has changed his life. As part of the WERISE project he has gained skills in bee keeping, poultry farming and fattening cattle. He says “Life was hanging in the balance. Now I am full of knowledge and confident, especially about bee keeping. I went from two beehives to 22. Before, when I was poor, people didn’t even want to greet me. Now they hug me. If they have a problem they want to borrow from me.” Guluna went from having nothing and being “on the ground” as he says. Now he and his wife have two homes, land and hire staff to work on the land. All this was achieved in just five years. Background: CARE’s five year project (2012 – 2016) Women’s Empowerment: Improving Resilience, Income and Food Security (WERISE), focussed on improving household food security and resilience by empowering women, particularly through increased agricultural productivity. Funded by the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) and implemented in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, WERISE was designed to improve the quality of life for chronically food insecure rural women (CFIRW). Photo by Josh Estey/CARE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516390643-0K18N037IWGHYOLLYMI8/02+MLW-2015-JE-0335.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516392616-BW82RVRDXTV8AR715H6E/03+MLW-2016-JE-0229.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power 23 April 2016 – In Sakonzeka Village, Dowa District, Malawi, Alinesi Ulya, 47, says “Because CARE came I am where I am today. I was an isolated woman when I joined the project, then I joined the savings group and made friends and became social.” Background: CARE’s five year project (2012 – 2016) Women’s Empowerment: Improving Resilience, Income and Food Security (WERISE), focussed on improving household food security and resilience by empowering women, particularly through increased agricultural productivity. Funded by the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) and implemented in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, WERISE was designed to improve the quality of life for chronically food insecure rural women (CFIRW). Photo by Josh Estey/CARE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516395879-UT5WPKXEB9HTFZV9VJQ9/04+NGR-2016-JE-0864.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power June 10th, 2016 Kagadam Village, Niger In the rural areas of Niger, Villages like Kagadam are close nit communities where families and neighbors depend on each other to survive in the harsh dry Sahel region. These are images of daily life in Kagadama, a village CARE began it’s pilot saving’s and loan program over 25 year-ago. BACKGROUND From June 10TH-14TH, 2016 a communications team from CARE USA visited sites around the district town of Maradi in the Eastern part of Niger, with a CARE staffer from Norway named Moira, who in 1991 started what would become known globally as CARE’s Village Saving and Loans Project. In the early 1990s CARE developed what would become an important model for cooperative microfinance. This model is called the Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) and it began in 1991 as a pilot project run by CARE's Country Office in Niger.[23] The pilot project was called Mata Masu Dubara (MMD) and CARE Niger developed the VSLA model by adapting the model of Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations (ASCAs). VSLAs involve groups of about 15-30 people who regularly save and borrow using a group fund. Member savings create capital that can be used for short-term loans and capital and interest is shared among the group at the end of a given period (usually about a year), at which point the groups normally re-form to begin a new cycle. Because the bookkeeping required to manage a VSLA is quite simple most groups successfully become independent (needing no outside management help) within a year and enjoy a high rate of long-term group survival.[24] CARE has created over 40,000 VSLAs (over 1 million members total) across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Photo by Josh Estey/CARE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516399937-LP91IZSDKD46LTE52TUF/06+MLW-2016-JE-0117.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power 22 April 2016 – In Chilima Village, Lilongwe District, Malawi, Makulata Millward, 28, says “I have benefited a lot since you came in 2012. We have extended our house. When you were here last our roof was made of grass. Now we have an iron roof.” 22 April 2016 – In Chilima Village, Lilongwe District, Malawi, Millward Chizinga, 39, says “My wife and I could save on our own but the VSLA has benefits over saving as a household. For example, I could come home and take savings to buy alcohol. But through the VSLA you can’t access it. I’m not saying I drink, but that’s one of the benefits. It stops arguments.” 22 April 2016 – Children of Makulata and Millward eat lunch with their cousin. Left to right – Luti Lavmore, 13, Felix Millward, 9, Chrispen, 4, Sarah Millward, 14. [Names not changed] Background: CARE’s five year project (2012 – 2016) Women’s Empowerment: Improving Resilience, Income and Food Security (WERISE), focussed on improving household food security and resilience by empowering women, particularly through increased agricultural productivity. Funded by the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) and implemented in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, WERISE was designed to improve the quality of life for chronically food insecure rural women (CFIRW). Photo by Josh Estey/CARE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516399438-POWSYKP9L815L6HLYQ3P/07+ETH-2016-JE-0698.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power 15 April 2016 – In Tula Gorbe village, Sidama, a southern region of Ethiopia, Asanageche Aseffa (wife of Guluna Gademo), 40, has changed her life. She says ‘I raise poultry and my husband and I produce honey. Life now is incomparable with the past. In the past I used to work on other people’s farms. Now I am rich. I have big false banana. We are planning to build a new house. I am sending my children to a good school. We have big goats, sheep and cows. What you see here is all mine. I even have a house in town and another piece of land. I have always wanted to teach my children in a good school and now they are students at the best school available.” 15 April 2016 - In Sidama, a southern region of Ethiopia, Guluna Gademo (husband of Asanageche Aseffa), 40, of Tula Gorbe village has changed his life. As part of the WERISE project he has gained skills in bee keeping, poultry farming and fattening cattle. He says “Life was hanging in the balance. Now I am full of knowledge and confident, especially about bee keeping. I went from two beehives to 22. Before, when I was poor, people didn’t even want to greet me. Now they hug me. If they have a problem they want to borrow from me.” Guluna went from having nothing and being “on the ground” as he says. Now he and his wife have two homes, land and hire staff to work on the land. All this was achieved in just five years. Background: CARE’s five year project (2012 – 2016) Women’s Empowerment: Improving Resilience, Income and Food Security (WERISE), focussed on improving household food security and resilience by empowering women, particularly through increased agricultural productivity. Funded by the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) and implemented in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, WERISE was designed to improve the quality of life for chronically food insecure rural women (CFIRW). Photo by Josh Estey/CARE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516461824-OXBCI08KIL39Z9A4TUI9/08+NGR-2016-JE-1010.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power June 10th, 2016 NANA HADIZA, 12 Village: KAGADAMA Nana Hadiza, 12, of Kagadama village outside Maradi City in Niger is the granddaughter of Fatchima Aboubacar, a member of the first VSLA (MMD), begun in 1991. In June 2016, she had just finished her last year of primary school. Her favorite subject is history, and she dreams of becoming a teacher. She says it’s a choice she can make. She says “when you’re a part of MMD, your voice and advice are respected. Her hope for her village? “That everyone grows and develops together, as that will make everyone happy. Seeing everyone happy will make me happy,” she says. Kagadam Village, Niger In the rural areas of Niger, Villages like Kagadam are close nit communities where families and neighbors depend on each other to survive in the harsh dry Sahel region. These are images of daily life in Kagadama, a village CARE began it’s pilot saving’s and loan program over 25 year-ago. BACKGROUND From June 10TH-14TH, 2016 a communications team from CARE USA visited sites around the district town of Maradi in the Eastern part of Niger, with a CARE staffer from Norway named Moira, who in 1991 started what would become known globally as CARE’s Village Saving and Loans Project. In the early 1990s CARE developed what would become an important model for cooperative microfinance. This model is called the Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) and it began in 1991 as a pilot project run by CARE's Country Office in Niger.[23] The pilot project was called Mata Masu Dubara (MMD) and CARE Niger developed the VSLA model by adapting the model of Accumulating Savings and Credit Associations (ASCAs). VSLAs involve groups of about 15-30 people who regularly save and borrow using a group fund. Member savings create capital that can be used for short-term loans and capital and interest is shared among the group at the end of a given period (usually about a year), at which point the groups normally re-form to begin a https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516464934-9UMFWW8R050L79DNCOWH/ETH-2016-JE-0942.jpeg-web.JPG Photo Stories - Portraits of Power 16 April 2016 – Tekalingn Abraham, 18, of Abea Chafe village fell from a tree when he was 7 years old. Innocent childish play left him unable to use his legs. Until 2013 he was scraping a little money together for food, working as a shoe shiner, until CARE’s partner SOS Sahel identified him and invited him to be a part of the WERISE project. He was provided with training on trading and given a grant of 100 Birr (USD $5.00). An enterprising young man, he opened a business. He no longer goes from home to home at night, asking for a place to sleep. He has a shop, somewhere to make his meal and is saving with several VSLA’s. He says “In the past I didn’t have anything. I was even ashamed because I was asking to sleep in people’s homes overnight. People used to look down on me. Now they choose to come to my shop and support me because they see me as a good example.” “I thought I couldn’t be anything, then I had training about people living with a disability. I was told that we are human beings, we are just like other people. Then I started to believe I could do what anyone else can do. I am good now and I sleep in my shop.” Background: CARE’s five year project (2012 – 2016) Women’s Empowerment: Improving Resilience, Income and Food Security (WERISE), focussed on improving household food security and resilience by empowering women, particularly through increased agricultural productivity. Funded by the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme (AACES) and implemented in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, WERISE was designed to improve the quality of life for chronically food insecure rural women (CFIRW). Photo by Josh Estey/CARE http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/city-of-superlatives monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516702285-SHCQ4D4ZPM03CCYY22GL/1+edit+R0016538-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516700890-FTK9N7GR6BFJRQP5LX92/2+R0000409-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516703308-HBICJ8OR7TWEQU2YR4MB/3+edit2+R0177220-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516706940-LMEZGTDB2TRIMU76P5I2/5+R0000760-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516705173-69BDYC2NBXOY8AREL3KX/6+R0000313-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516709649-6JRRYQVWS4TR5V4IEAH5/7+edit+R0001508-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516710679-DI1O3NCNLH98G7BW3862/8+R0001254-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1485516712105-J79XJ584RX21784WIICF/10+R0000199-web.JPG Photo Stories - City of Superlatives http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/hacks-for-filming-in-the-field monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/everyone-has-a-story monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/2016-recap monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836185064-6NBM168TEDFUGD4WWU43/2016-Highlights-1.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In January we traveled to Zimbabwe for Ground Media to film a story about Loyce who is alive today because of The Global Fund. She was born HIV positive and before the age of 10, she lost both her parents and her brother. Loyce didn’t start receiving treatment until she contracted tuberculosis (TB) when she was 12 years old; during that time Loyce had to manage both TB and HIV treatment for the first time. Since 2009, Loyce has been working as a peer counsellor and advocacy officer on issues around treatment, care and support including HIV-related stigma and discrimination for children, adolescents and young people living with HIV; the campaigns she works have been rolled out in schools and communities throughout Zimbabwe. Loyce also works in international HIV youth advocacy. Learn more here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836183714-AUY6UXW0U052OZS7N1MF/2016-Highlights-12.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In February we traveled to Rwanda with CARE to visit their adolescent girls empowerment program, Keeping Girsl in School (KGAS). The Government of Rwanda has a policy framework to ensure fee-free, nine year basic education for all Rwandan children. Nevertheless, girls continue to be less likely to complete their schooling than boys. In 2010, only 78% of girls progressed from secondary 3 to upper secondary, compared to 92% of boys. In Rwanda girls fight pressure from their families to stay in school instead of staying home to take care of household chores or get married. The Keeping Girls in School (KGAS) program establishes girls clubs which provide opportunities for girls to learn social skills and become more confident; trains teachers as psychosocial mentors and provide opportunities for girls to discuss difficult issues, in particular issues affecting their emotional wellbeing; provides opportunities for girls to learn financial management skills and engage in savings, loans and Income Generating Activities, and; allows girls to raise concerns and influence decisions affecting their education experience through the Community Score Card approach. See more portraits here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836200255-SAH102V6XP43CB8F811T/2016-Highlights-13.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In March, we photographed portraits of beneficiaries of Hillsong Africa Foundation's programs in South Africa. Hillsong Africa Foundation is a non-profit organization that was born out of the charity arm of Hillsong Church in Cape Town, South Africa. The foundation began with a group of volunteers who wanted to help the poorest of their communities by providing for their basic needs like food & shelter. Over the years the foundation has grown in mission and scope, and is now involved in many community projects including feeding programs, orphan care, women’s shelters, disaster relief, wheelchair distribution, substance abuse programs, job skills training centers, prison programs, and the Tembaletu School. View more portraits here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836223160-FR2OEK8ZT74FZEFJ7A45/2016-Highlights-14.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In April we travelled on a Learning Tour to Benin with a delegation from CARE's Action Network Fellowship to see firsthand how investments in maternal health and family planning are reducing maternal mortality and combatting poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482934108110-289RXDF11F8U2Q7UHF7G/2016-Highlights-15b.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In May, we flew to Bangladesh to film a story on how USAID is improving workers rights in garment factories. With the income Shahara, 28, makes sewing blazers in Dhaka, she supports her parents, husband and two sons. She had to leave the comfort of family in their home village 4 hours away, to find a job in the city that could provide for them after her husband became ill and could no longer work to support the family. When she first started at the factory 7 years ago, conditions were rough. She did not get paid on time, she didn’t have paid leave, and they couldn’t talk to management to address problems. After joining a trade union, Shahara learned about workers rights and labor laws. Now, they can discuss issues with management, they get paid on-time, they have daycare at the factory to keep their children, and they have scheduled leave. With her income, she supports her eldest son’s education and has bought a plot of land next to her parents’ house where she’ll build a new house for her family. Watch the film at: http://www.namuh.org/films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836254599-EUH4G4ZDM1410QJUNQ1U/2016-Highlights-16.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap When there is a tsunami, information people receive in the first five minutes can save lives. In June, we flew to Indonesia to film a story on how Dr. Harkunti and her team are improving the tsunami warning system in Indonesia. Watch the film at: http://www.namuh.org/case-studies/peer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836436136-SYA6OEXCR20BDHOVU5FA/2016-Highlights-July.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In July, we traveled to Mozambique for MSF to document the HIV epidemic that won't stop. Read the story and see the photos at: http://www.namuh.org/stories/cant-stop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836266069-A7Q9NWB28MXRE3MW7J2E/2016-Highlights-18.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In August we traveled to Malawi to document how a farmer built an irrigation system for his community. Watch the film at: http://www.namuh.org/case-studies/wilfreds-leap-of-faith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836289843-7XUCOYFIBF2O6JC9OOAF/2016-Highlights-19.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In September we travelled on a Learning Tour to Cote d'Ivoire with a delegation of French Ministers of Parliament to learn about CARE's work to empower women in the West African Country. View more of the photos at: http://www.namuh.org/stories/care-learning-tour-cote-divoire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481836296825-1DAV2G7NTJLJNVBGTGFP/2016-Highlights-110.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap Bangladesh has one of the largest primary education systems in the world with close to 20 million primary school aged children. However, only 10% of primary school children have the ability to read at their grade level. "It is especially important for women to be educated because today’s girls are tomorrow’s mothers and only an educated mother can create a well-educated nation," says Hasina, a teacher in Bangladesh. In October we filmed a story on education in Bangladesh. This one's still in production, but stay tuned for the release of the short film in 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482942441629-8JVWHX6JJEO255TZAFJ6/2016-Highlights-111.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap In November 2016 we joined a U.S. congressional delegation on a unique learning tour with CARE to Niger to explore the importance of emergency and short-term food and nutrition security. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1483962460265-G2KZGBDBVQ1AUP6F9M5F/2016-Highlights-December.jpg Photo Stories - 2016 Recap http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/cant-stop monthly 0.5 2018-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481725551736-950IT205F1T54O1N92HY/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Can't Stop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481725126572-9OGKLOQ0RKE9JSTEVV7J/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Can't Stop Salima, a sex worker in Mozambique, at her home in Beira. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481725338960-PB57LC3RFJ924013A72C/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Can't Stop Salima spends most of her days watching TV at home with her kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1481725402529-8K0MXS8MTOOSML2TGNAK/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Can't Stop http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/msf-mozambique monthly 0.5 2018-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480688876713-K1HHEBGKQW53N1282AXE/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - From One Sex Worker to Another MSF peer educator, Constantino, tests a comercial sex worker for HIV, yellow fever and Syphilis while Patti, another MSF peer educator, counsels her inside of the MSF vehicle in her neighborhood. She was last tested in 2014, but this is the first time she's been tested by MSF. This time she tested negative for HIV and yellow fever, but positive for syhpillis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480689346557-VWN4XRRXFKO36GVSHVNZ/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - From One Sex Worker to Another Precious at home in Beira with her one year old son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480689436061-IZ4XDBMGFGCTA0TJFKOV/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - From One Sex Worker to Another Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PreP) reduces the chances of contracting HIV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480690534864-QSUK1METWN362MZYIIQW/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - From One Sex Worker to Another Precious, a commercial sex worker in Mozambique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1480688905889-5Q4WEURBZX7TAD5SAEWT/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - From One Sex Worker to Another Precious, a commercial sex worker from Zimbabwe at her home in Beira, Mozambique. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/keeping-girls-in-school monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288484985-EGTW3YNC964A302NOIUM/160213-rwanda-wingard-0070-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School - Nyinawumuntu Alphonsine, 20 NYARIGINA VILLAGE, GISAGARA DISTRICT, RWANDA: February 13, 2016 - Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288486977-6FDJ0X4RVZHDZ7ZGU1O8/160213-rwanda-wingard-0133-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School - Mukabarisa Angleique (16) NYARIGINA VILLAGE, GISAGARA DISTRICT, RWANDA: February 13, 2016 - Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288488052-HT3E0050VSJTBYM6GLLC/160213-rwanda-wingard-0141-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School - Niyonkuru Khadidja (18) NYARIGINA VILLAGE, GISAGARA DISTRICT, RWANDA: February 13, 2016 - Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288491448-LYN99GEXZ3J3RSSLC0K5/160213-rwanda-wingard-0874-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288493031-9QHUVM6TA4EAVDYD6OZU/160213-rwanda-wingard-0918-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School NYARIGINA VILLAGE, GISAGARA DISTRICT, RWANDA: February 13, 2016 - Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1479288776123-8CAM3CRFU7ULIZXGSYI2/160214-rwanda-wingard-0436-web.jpg Photo Stories - Keeping Girls in School - Florida Mukankundo (38) KIGALI, RWANDA: February 14, 2016 - Florida Mukankundo (38) lives 20 minutes outside of Kigali, Rwanda with her three children and her husband. She's expecting her fourth child later this month. Florida and her husband, Karemera Edward, made a decision to space out the births of her children so she has enough time to care for each child when they are babies. Her three children are 6, 9, and 13. The spacing has also helped the family economically to space out the school fees and give her time to work and make extra money in between pregnancies. She's been a member of CARE's VSLA program since 2013. The 25 women in her VSLA have used their loans to start small businesses. She used her loan to start buying soap and tomatoes to sell out of her home. Now, her husband and her run a small market attached to their home. With the extra money and the interest from the loans from the VSLA she is able to pay for food, uniforms, school expenses and health insurance for her children. 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Ce projet a pour but d'améliorer l'offre de soins à l'attention des groupes vulnérables, notamment dans le bidonville de Bardot où les centres de santé à base communautaire sont peu à peu désertés en raison du manque d'équipement et d'entretien. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473929963425-U8NTCXMH7V7VQ1JYR6I9/160905-cotedivoire-wingard-0156-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 5, 2016: CARE France Study Tour visits a Mother’s Group in Abidjan. Visite de terrain d’un projet de Santé et planning familial avec Action Contre la Faim – Dans le cadre du projet PARSSI du Ministère de la santé. Ce projet, situé dans le quartier du Koweït à Abidjan, permet aux femmes de se retrouver une fois par semaine en groupe de parole, en classes, supervisé par une sage-femme et un-e agent-e communautaire qui répond à toutes leurs questions relatives aux droits sexuels et reproductifs et à la santé maternelle et infantile. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473931682417-4XOPDBR1YF0NU9A5CWAV/160906-cotedivoire-wingard-0267-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace is a Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933112658-AABGTW0RZUNQ6O7SCA9W/160906-cotedivoire-wingard-1018-Pano-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473930063787-5KZ4AF1UNCU9UB969500/160905-cotedivoire-wingard-0346-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 5, 2016: CARE France Study Tour visits a Mother’s Group in Abidjan. Visite de terrain d’un projet de Santé et planning familial avec Action Contre la Faim – Dans le cadre du projet PARSSI du Ministère de la santé. Ce projet, situé dans le quartier du Koweït à Abidjan, permet aux femmes de se retrouver une fois par semaine en groupe de parole, en classes, supervisé par une sage-femme et un-e agent-e communautaire qui répond à toutes leurs questions relatives aux droits sexuels et reproductifs et à la santé maternelle et infantile. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473688056698-WJND0W7NTJ4KD4TEPA0V/160906-cotedivoire-wingard-0647-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933683113-422XXXOHNT7A3BJ52P3L/160907-cotedivoire-wingard-0010-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SAN PEDRO, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 7, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un centre de santé communautaire et rencontre avec une association de femmes pour le planning familial - Médecins du Monde (MDM) (soutenu par l’AFD). Le projet a pour but de donner confiance aux femmes pour qu’elles osent se rendre dans les centres de soins de manière plus systématique. MDM travaille au sein de la communauté pour les sensibiliser et rétablir la confiance entre la population et les structures sanitaires. Enfin, l’association plaide auprès des autorités pour améliorer et soutenir le système de gratuité des soins pour les femmes et les jeunes enfants. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473688048219-I50089N5L6D146K87T0L/160906-cotedivoire-wingard-0254-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933741283-0RTABWPDP7OH6IOR56B0/160907-cotedivoire-wingard-0390-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SAN PEDRO, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 7, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet de visite à domicile des agents de santé pour sensibiliser les femmes à la santé maternelle, infantile et reproductive – CARE et APROSAM. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933718411-S98LN51T01FM7WIKQJDL/160907-cotedivoire-wingard-0324-Pano-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SAN PEDRO, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 7, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet de visite à domicile des agents de santé pour sensibiliser les femmes à la santé maternelle, infantile et reproductive – CARE et APROSAM. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933957647-VE3XO220YJ1F65UU27WS/160908-cotedivoire-wingard-0129-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SONGON FURE VILLAGE, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 8, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet d’associations villageoises d’épargne et de crédit (AVEC) avec CARE Côte d’Ivoire. Les groupements d’AVEC permettent aux femmes d’épargner en commun et d’avoir des ressources suffisantes pour développer des activités génératrices de revenus ou d’investir dans l’éducation ou la santé de leur famille. En parallèle, les femmes améliorent leur estime de soi, gagnent une meilleure compréhension de leurs droits et participent activement aux espaces de décision. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933997716-PSNRFVAIYPXS899QKJ1X/160908-cotedivoire-wingard-0168-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SONGON FURE VILLAGE, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 8, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet d’associations villageoises d’épargne et de crédit (AVEC) avec CARE Côte d’Ivoire. Les groupements d’AVEC permettent aux femmes d’épargner en commun et d’avoir des ressources suffisantes pour développer des activités génératrices de revenus ou d’investir dans l’éducation ou la santé de leur famille. En parallèle, les femmes améliorent leur estime de soi, gagnent une meilleure compréhension de leurs droits et participent activement aux espaces de décision. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473688044464-PWKRWZAWYYDRNZNOGW7O/160905-cotedivoire-wingard-0963-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473934001945-AURQ79V09I5KY2QZ4GOS/160908-cotedivoire-wingard-0223-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SONGON FURE VILLAGE, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 8, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet d’associations villageoises d’épargne et de crédit (AVEC) avec CARE Côte d’Ivoire. Les groupements d’AVEC permettent aux femmes d’épargner en commun et d’avoir des ressources suffisantes pour développer des activités génératrices de revenus ou d’investir dans l’éducation ou la santé de leur famille. En parallèle, les femmes améliorent leur estime de soi, gagnent une meilleure compréhension de leurs droits et participent activement aux espaces de décision. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473933997884-I0BJWCZ9FMNUHJHACVCR/160908-cotedivoire-wingard-0216-web.jpg Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Côte d'Ivoire SONGON FURE VILLAGE, COTE D'IVOIRE – September 8, 2016: CARE France visite d'etude visite de terrain d’un projet d’associations villageoises d’épargne et de crédit (AVEC) avec CARE Côte d’Ivoire. Les groupements d’AVEC permettent aux femmes d’épargner en commun et d’avoir des ressources suffisantes pour développer des activités génératrices de revenus ou d’investir dans l’éducation ou la santé de leur famille. En parallèle, les femmes améliorent leur estime de soi, gagnent une meilleure compréhension de leurs droits et participent activement aux espaces de décision. 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MDM travaille au sein de la communauté pour les sensibiliser et rétablir la confiance entre la population et les structures sanitaires. Enfin, l’association plaide auprès des autorités pour améliorer et soutenir le système de gratuité des soins pour les femmes et les jeunes enfants. 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Footage by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1474511446731-WP20PZG9BDKSBUF9034E/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Photoville http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/hillsong-foundation monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473758760474-170OOLL6LO4NTVYE72TF/160310-sa-wingard-0061-web.jpg Photo Stories - Hillsong Africa Foundation GUGULETHU, SOUTH AFRICA: March 10, 2016 - Siphosetu, 13, is a student at Tembaletu -- a school for physically disabled children located in the township of Gugulethu outside of Cape Town. Many children of Tembaletu wake as early as 4am to begin their long journey to the school. These children are susceptible to abuse, while also facing exhaustion from their long day. Each student faces challenges in their school attendance as they are highly susceptible to disease and injury, which can keep them away from school for months at a time and prevent them from completing their education. In 2011, Hillsong House was constructed as a dormitory that provides a secure homely environment for 32 of the most high risk children. The home provides a safe haven for each of these children to learn and grow. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473758760421-20LFWVBWL4YLN6LDULCG/160310-sa-wingard-0140-web.jpg Photo Stories - Hillsong Africa Foundation GUGULETHU, SOUTH AFRICA: March 10, 2016 - Ruth Fani works at Tembaletu -- a school for physically disabled children located in the township of Gugulethu outside of Cape Town. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473758783256-HIUCV60WH4F1AXX78579/160309-southafrica-wingard-0152-web.jpg Photo Stories - Hillsong Africa Foundation MITCHELLS PLAIN, SOUTH AFRICA: March 9, 2016 - Amy Lee Smith is a student at Talfesig Primary School in Mitchell's Plain, a township outside of Cape Town, where Hillsong Africa Foundation provides an after school program called "Lights On" for primary‐aged children. They aim to add value to children’s lives and instill in them a sense of purpose and worth, and hope for the future. They also work on addressing key issues the children face living in underprivileged communities, equipping them to deal with what life throws their way and how to move onwards and upwards in life. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1473762465316-I86SVRJZ62L7ILMAT2IJ/160320-sa-wingard-0005-web.JPG Photo Stories - Hillsong Africa Foundation CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA: March 20, 2016 - Reagan Thaker leads Hillsong Foundation's Sunday VIP team where he helps serve men and women who live in shelters around Cape Town. A free bus picks people up around the city and brings them to Hillsong's Century City church on Sunday morning. 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Martu asked the teachers to be patient with Mercy since it is her first time attending school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1467630149451-G6B95D1OOZBU65IP6TQS/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Life with a New Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1467630545493-QWNOD0GL5O5I8QX5NXDI/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Life with a New Family Mercy plays with friends in her neighborhood after arriving home from school. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/ebola-heros monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686883829-TKNEI8PASDV3B3QZ71NP/151016_EbolaHeroes_SierraLeone_0214-web-2.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story WATERLOO, SIERRA LEONE: When Ebola came into the country, the school that Jan Sankoh, 13, attended was suspended. “I sat lonely at home. I was scared so I stayed in the house," he remembers. He started talking to his neighbors about taking proper precautions like washing their hands. He says, “I told my neighbors that you should wash your hands even when Ebola is not here.” They said it was good and to go to them every day to talk about Ebola. His father was working for an NGO to provide rice for Ebola patients at the ETU. His mother stayed at home with and his younger brother ands sister. She made sure they were always using precautions. He says, ”Not all people believe in Ebola. Some people say it’s the government making people sick. “ He would tell people who believed that way, “you should believe that Ebola is real.” Instead of thinking people have Ebola around him, he’ll wear protective clothes so he keeps from judging people. “I want Sierra Leone to be a good country. I want us to stop judging people, stop corruption, stop teachers asking for money for grades, and bad guys doing stuff to girls like rape. Children have the right to go to school every day. When you learn, you will have everything." Jan is now in the 6th grade. He says, “I want to be a scientist. I want to study about the stars and the moon. At night, they are lighting, moving – the last time at my house I saw a star running. That’s why I want to be a scientist.” Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686884107-MB2559QQZLWOZ65QI9QF/151009_EbolaHeroes_Liberia_0806-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story MONROVIA, LIBERIA: Tarlo Kerkula, remembers the amount of deaths in October 2014. “It was so scary, it was so troubling.” She is a County Mobilization Coordinator for UNICEF leading 170 people in 8 zones. She organized where people went, held discussions, taught about symptoms ands asked social mobilizers to report any death. She also helped link other partner organizations for psychosocial help. “Initially, I had so much fear… one fear was that I would get Ebola and also that the community would rise up against me. I always took precautions.” “Many communities were resistant. I involved other patrons, leaders, traditional leaders – these are the people who helped break the resistance.” One time when she went to Slipway Community, she went to see a family with 2 sick people and 2 dead bodies in house. I was going with volunteers to talk but did not know family members. The family chased her and the volunteers out by throwing sticks and water at them. She headed to the clinic in the community and called for help. She later came back to the house with a burial team. “It made me have many sleepless nights.” She has remained working with UNICEF. She says, “Now we are trying to restore basic health services- hand washing, breastfeeding, immunization.” “I see the community has its own solution. If you work with them you get the desired results.I no longer have fear and I now have more community support because they have more trust with me." Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686907383-K068PFQKW4NVCUIHHQ2Y/150917_EbolaHeroes_Guinea_0260-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story CONAKRY, GUINEA: Imam Elhadj Cheikhouna Sylla has been an Imam for 40 years. Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak he believed the rumors about the disease were true because there were so many stories about the diseases in the Koran. He was educated on Ebola by UNICEF and The Islamic Center. After this, he gave more than 20 speeches at the mosque to convince people that Ebola was real. He knew how important his role was since the beginning. He did his best in the community to promote safe burial. At his mosque, he was the one with the key. In the beginning, people wanted to give their loved ones who died of Ebola a proper funeral and burial at the mosque. He had to convince the community members that they could not do this unless they first contacted the Red Cross to prepare the body. Once completed, an authorization letter would be given to the family to proceed with a funeral. Once received, the Imam was able to allow the service at the mosque. He says, “ I knew I was impacting the community because they accepted to bring the paper delivered by the Red Cross and communities accepted the Red Cross to attend the burial. I witnessed two things. They took me and brought me to the Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) to see people who were sick with the disease. So this strengthened my belief with Ebola’s existence. When there is a case in the community, I would sometime be called to go talk to the family members about taking the person to the ETC or about safe burial if they died. “I was feeling sad for the families but am here to support them and to use the word of the holy Koran to help them. “ He said his advice to help use his own experiences to help convince community members that Ebola was real. Laughs...There are too many wishes that I have for Guinea. Ebola has affected the way communities have been living together and my hope is that there is more peace in the country. I wish for my country to get a good leader. Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686907589-74NLZ0NF0L9UWZ0V5EOW/150918_EbolaHeroes_Guinea_0013-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story CONAKRY, GUINEA: "The first person who was sick was my sister," remembers Ismael Koulibaly. "She was sick but we didn’t know she was sick. We thought it was a pulmonary disease. We took her to a clinic and there was another person who had Ebola while we were there. This is how we think she came down with Ebola." They took her to her parents house. She stayed for five days and then she passed away. They called the Red Cross who confirmed she died of Ebola. The family was scared. The Red Cross, UNICEF and the chief helped to explain the disease to them. Ismael was the first one to accept that his sister had died of this mysterious disease called Ebola. "It wasn’t easy for the family to accept. At first, the family was scared. Again, many of the people didn’t go to school so it was difficult for the family to accept that it was Ebola. Since I am the one who is educated, I had to explain everything to the family for them to accept it. If I didn’t convince my family, many people were going to die and it was going to be a disaster.” Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686935831-Y524GZ057KPG7L64GL58/151010_EbolaHeroes_Liberia_0043-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story MONROVIA, LIBERIA: Jessica Meufville, 17, is a student in 10th grade in West Point—a slum in Monrovia's capital, Monrovia. Jessica was staying with her parents in West Point when Ebola came into the country. “Sometimes I was really scared because of the information being spread around about Ebola. "I was thought if I looked at someone with Ebola I would get it. If I came down with Ebola automatically all my family would get it.” In August of 2014, West Point was quarantined after Ebola patients escaped from a holding center. She remembers finding out in the morning, since it occurred during the nighttime. She said, “It was shocking to everyone. The whole time, everything was confusing, even your close friends you could not see. No one was moving. Everyone was staying at home." She and other young girls from West Point were part of a program headed by UNICEF’s Hawa Page. These girls decided to meet at the West Point Women’s Center. Their first meeting was on a Saturday. She remembers about 25 people being present. This is when they formed the group Adolescents Leading an Intense Fight Against Ebola or A-LIFE. She learned that Ebola was quite different then what was being spread around. We wanted to help save the lives of her fellow residents. "We wanted to go door to door and tell people to follow preventative measures." They did training and were given protective wear. “It was challenging. A lot of people never accepted the message. It used to make me feel bad. Our supervisor always used to encourage us. It was that motivation that kept me moving on to talk with people for more lives to be saved.” They ended up doing the awareness for 6 months. Now, Jessica is back in school and hopes to become a journalist to “help speak for the speechless.” Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1466686938225-DGSVUFVGDJIBGO66OPU2/151010_EbolaHeroes_Liberia_0340-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story MONROVIA, LIBERIA: Pandora Hodge was an entrepreneur and student studying Public Administration and Sociology before the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. She had been renovating her restaurant for about a year and a half and working with Kriterian Monrvovia—an independent arthouse cinema. When Ebola came into the country, everything stopped. Since Kriterian had already set up cinema showings in communities, she felt they could take advantage of the opportunity and start talking to people about the disease. 72 students got involved and started going out door-to-door. The Ministry of Health trained the volunteers and UNICEF supplied them with flyers. They reached 400 communities between Aug. 2013 and the beginning of 2015. Before going out into the communities, they would always inform the leaders. Once on location, they would start by talking to people who were willing to listen to their message. During the height of Ebola in Liberia, she realized there was not enough focus outside of Monrovia. They reached out to the President’s office and were given 2 video cameras and one still camera to document everyday activities. These clips would later be edited into a documentary. She recently opened up her restaurant in Monrovia and is now working on renovating an old theatre in downtown to create the cinema house. Pandora says she hopes to, “impact many Liberians to be able to work hard, to put all their dreams for Liberia and to bring it to reality. That’s when we know these wishes that we have are going to work. I was born into the war in Liberia. From the first time I had the freedom to do what I wanted, I used it for the best.” Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1467039365616-G0KFT3JOD6RE3VN7TKVA/150918_EbolaHeroes_Guinea_0087-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story CONAKRY, GUINEA: Housseinatou Sangar's step-daughter became ill and her step-son took her to a clinic. The family now believes that the siblings contracted Ebola while at the clinic because another patient was ill. Later, they both passed away from the disease. The family didn’t believe in Ebola at first and were very reluctant to work with organizations such as UNICEF. Her other step-son eventually agreed to wok with UNICEF and help convince the family that Ebola was a real disease. “Since I’m the grandma, I was living with my family taking care of everyone. My husband passed away a while ago.” When her family members started getting sick, she was really scared because she knew what people said about Ebola. Her family was resistant to work with organizations at first. However, they were convinced after her step-son started believing and talked to the family. After her family members passed away from the disease, she thought more family members were going to get sick and die. Once they were given the vaccine, she had more peace. She told her family to be strong. She said, “Just believe in God." Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1467039366945-IN5QLNCNHZ18S80UMHLN/150921_EbolaHeroes_Guinea_0218-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story CONAKRY, GUINEA: Hawa Kandé is an Ebola survivor. Her husband passed away from the disease. He was a doctor in Ratoma. They were married for 15 years and have 4 children together ranging from 3-years-old to 15. He got sick while working at the hospital and traveled to Sierra Leone where he passed away. He told her he went away in order to look for another job. She thinks he knew he had contracted Ebola and didn’t want his family to get sick. She did not have visible signs until 21 days after when she tested positive. The children stayed at the home by themselves. Although people in her community have started to accept her family, they still face stigma. Certain neighbors will not allow their kids to come over. She says, “It’s been very difficult and I feel very isolated.” She says, “There are some days that I’m very down. It’s my kids that give me strength because I need to take care of them." She says her children are also realizing how important education is and have been performing better since their father passed away. She says, “People have to believe in the disease and do all possible to prevent it.” Photo by Sarah Grile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1467039490262-TMTIN2WBPLZB48I679ZT/151008_EbolaHeroes_Liberia_0667-web.JPG Photo Stories - My Ebola Story NEW GEORGIA ESTATE, LIBERIA: Pastor John Prosper Ghartay Sr. with wife, Ophelia. "I think it was the first Sunday in August. It was the time when Ebola was at its peak. The fear it brought. The segregation it brought among us in the community and as Liberians…there was no shaking of hands no touching. A member of our congregation died and her children were all sick. We took them to the ETU. I was afraid that I would get Ebola and infect a member of my family. I thank God, that by his grace we were able to get through the crisis and we’re still alive. I would say Ebola made the community stronger because when it started everyone was afraid, everyone was staying home. We were not interacting, we were not touching. But when the Ebola kept increasing, the community would still come to the church every day, sharing information, giving Ebola updates, telling people how to handle anyone who is sick. By the grace of God we were able to fight as a community." Photo by Sarah Grile http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/care-benin monthly 0.5 2017-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932695244-24P6B6Y6C4WXJEYZKUA3/160404-benin-wingard-0158-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - Felicienne has been able to grow a garden near her home thanks to her village savingins and loan association. This has helped to provide her with additional income which helps her pay for healthcare expenses when she's sick. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932696173-X3M54LCPTE98S8PWZTIP/160404-benin-wingard-0082-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932697737-SFE0EN8K2TIARY386LZL/160404-benin-wingard-0228-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - CARE Action Network Fellowship and Learning Tour to Benin participants meet with female rice producers who are part of CARE's Nutrition at the Center program in Benin.

 In Benin, nearly half of all children less than five years of age are stunted, approximately 5% are wasted and 20% are underweight (UNICEF 2013). Recently, the Government of Benin prioritized improving nutritional status of women and children by forming a multi-sectoral, multi-lateral committee whose mandate is to improve nutrition among children and mothers. By engaging with communities, other partners and the Ministry of Health, Nutrition at the Center will build upon this commitment to improve nutritional status. 

The specific programmatic goals of Nutrition at the Center are to decrease stunting in children and decrease both mother and child anemia. This integrated program approach includes elements of 4 food and nutrition security, sanitation and hygiene, and gender equality. Nutrition at the Center is currently being implemented in four countries: Benin, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia. 
Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932699593-M81ZHN302SRDDX1Q45NU/160404-benin-wingard-0464-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - CARE advocates watch as a village savings and loan group in Benin perform a mock meeting. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932702455-ZSNFESMPYJDA62O3QGVW/160404-benin-wingard-0514-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - CARE advocates watch as a village savings and loan group in Benin perform a mock meeting. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932707247-LQYRJWQPR1FP5RUHCG99/160404-benin-wingard-0535-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin FINGNIKANME DANGBO COMMUNE, BENIN: April 4, 2016 - CARE advocates watch as a village savings and loan group in Benin perform a mock meeting. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932707385-5RUJE03D92T11EPPGCJJ/160405-benin-wingard-0299-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin BONOU COMMUNE, BENIN: April 5, 2016 – CARE advocates visit the Tékponon Jikuagou Project (TJ) in Benin to learn how CARE is working to address unmet family planning needs through interventions implemented through women’s and men’s social networks, specifically addressing social norms and barriers which influence non-use of family planning despite access to services. The Tékponon Jikuagou Project (TJ) in Benin, funded by USAID, is led by Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health in collaboration with CARE International and Plan International. TJ aims to address unmet need for family planning through interventions implemented through women’s and men’s social networks, specifically addressing social norms and barriers that influence non-use of family planning despite access to services. The goal is to create a social environment that enables married couples to achieve their fertility desires by fostering reflective dialogue and catalyzing discussion about social norms related to family planning, and diffusing information through formal and informal social groups, influential opinion leaders and well-connected individuals. TJ uses social network analysis to identify the most influential and connected networks in a community and to assess the influence of these networks on fertility beliefs, attitudes, desires, intentions and behaviors related to family planning. Interventions then work with key actors in social networks and the network structures themselves to promote reflection on existing social norms and attitudes that may negatively influence reproductive health and family planning. While the project addresses information needs, it also uses participatory, communication-driven techniques that encourage reflection and dialogue on issues such as communication between husband and wife regarding fertility and the stigma associated with family planning discussions and overt use of family planning. The core components of the project’s i https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1482932709645-86BB7QK0UEUIURUKU042/160405-benin-wingard-0329-web.JPG Photo Stories - Learning Tour to Benin BONOU COMMUNE, BENIN: April 5, 2016 – CARE advocates visit the Tékponon Jikuagou Project (TJ) in Benin to learn how CARE is working to address unmet family planning needs through interventions implemented through women’s and men’s social networks, specifically addressing social norms and barriers which influence non-use of family planning despite access to services. The Tékponon Jikuagou Project (TJ) in Benin, funded by USAID, is led by Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health in collaboration with CARE International and Plan International. TJ aims to address unmet need for family planning through interventions implemented through women’s and men’s social networks, specifically addressing social norms and barriers that influence non-use of family planning despite access to services. The goal is to create a social environment that enables married couples to achieve their fertility desires by fostering reflective dialogue and catalyzing discussion about social norms related to family planning, and diffusing information through formal and informal social groups, influential opinion leaders and well-connected individuals. TJ uses social network analysis to identify the most influential and connected networks in a community and to assess the influence of these networks on fertility beliefs, attitudes, desires, intentions and behaviors related to family planning. Interventions then work with key actors in social networks and the network structures themselves to promote reflection on existing social norms and attitudes that may negatively influence reproductive health and family planning. While the project addresses information needs, it also uses participatory, communication-driven techniques that encourage reflection and dialogue on issues such as communication between husband and wife regarding fertility and the stigma associated with family planning discussions and overt use of family planning. 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The new hospital was opened in early November 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441204896-BOE6L6V4SHVGIRFDZTIZ/141015-lbr-wingard-0424-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look Rear Admiral Scott Giberson (Acting U.S. Deputy Surgeon General and Commander of the USPHS Commissioned Corps Ebola Response) gives USAID Administrator Raj Shah a tour of the 25-bed critical care hospital for all health workers who fall ill with Ebola while on the frontlines of the epidemic in Liberia on October 15, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441197505-X360SWWOOOBCE8ZJ9DTZ/141015-lbr-wingard-0116-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look Colonel Joann Frye, nurse, Officer in Charge, U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command 633rd IPTS and USAID Administrator Raj Shah inside the critical care hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441197259-91M690MFK5O4TDLKKRDN/141015-lbr-wingard-0119-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look Tents are connected by a covered passageway inside the “Hot Zone.” Soon the only people inside this area will be health workers either as patients or suited up in personal protective equipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441203231-6JUU102MBKDRL7P5TJ89/141015-lbr-wingard-0374-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441199702-GD8DNWGYMFW5TIGI8KHC/141015-lbr-wingard-0239-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look Inside one of the patient wings of a new critical care hospital being built by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Public Health Service in Harbel, Liberia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441199483-OJ7NA8A4GL9ZRNALSEBR/141015-lbr-wingard-0146-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look The hospital’s supply room.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441200826-5XPU69TDZ3K7RNSVP0D2/141015-lbr-wingard-0250-web-2.jpg Photo Stories - First Look https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441202101-LUMZ00NOWFERT7G78R3B/141015-lbr-wingard-0270-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look CAPT Ed Dieser (Engineer, USPHS Commissioned Corps Safety/Facilities Officer) gives USAID Administrator Raj Shah a tour of the new 25-bed critical care hospital for health workers who fall ill to Ebola while on the front lines of the outbreak in Liberia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476441202378-5LCJBKDC1NKUVXTT8GGY/141015-lbr-wingard-0295-web.jpg Photo Stories - First Look http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/profiles-in-courage-alisha-and-paloma monthly 0.5 2016-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476377523171-7KSZEZQFN4PMFUCM0PWZ/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Alisha and Paloma https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476377496194-91AV8WTNT1NP3ZA2KHH8/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Alisha and Paloma http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/profiles-in-courage-justin monthly 0.5 2016-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476374719483-DC51080AIVZIE2UGESUK/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Justin http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/profiles-in-courage-andrew monthly 0.5 2016-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476373388062-BLKH70FPUO7MBR46W4OI/140924-lbr-wingard-0012-web.jpg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476373388698-A0BEK1TOU3X6SCJGIEFE/140924-lbr-wingard-0016-web.jpg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Andrew Andrew sketching drawings for an Ebola treatment unit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476373304028-RM0ELOHIDXMOMNXURIVQ/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Profiles in Courage: Andrew http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/facing-death-six-days-a-week monthly 0.5 2018-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476431064723-A5GLPWKVMD8XKW08ESU1/140926-lbr-wingard-0229-web.JPG Photo Stories - Facing Death, Six Days a Week Varbah helps seal Melvin's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as he suits up to remove the body of Phelica Anthon, 6, in Arthingon, Liberia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476431066193-WVDVV6QPAS6RTJTHWXGN/140926-lbr-wingard-0004-web.JPG Photo Stories - Facing Death, Six Days a Week Varbah, a member of a Global Communities burial team, listens to the mother of Phelica Anthony, 6, explain the events leading up to her recent death. She describes how Phelica got something caught in her teeth while she was playing which caused health problems so she took her to several hospitals for treatment. They couldn't do anything and she died on the way home a couple days later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476431048607-ZNJ781OK1G5WUUZ4NVQS/140926-lbr-wingard-0374-web.jpg Photo Stories - Facing Death, Six Days a Week Melvin Payoh removes the body of 6 year old Phelica Anthony from her family home in Arthingon, Liberia. Phelicia is suspected to have died of Ebola. Her father was taken to an Ebola treatment unit the day before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476431036293-W46LQSPSQPCJRIB9DA78/140926-lbr-wingard-1155-web.jpg Photo Stories - Facing Death, Six Days a Week A woman cries as a burial team arrives to remove the body of her neighbor—suspected to have died of Ebola. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476431044318-S0B2LKH84CF0TYOOTSZ5/140926-lbr-wingard-0543-web.jpg Photo Stories - Facing Death, Six Days a Week Melvin Payoh and his team collect the body of a woman suspected to have died of Ebola in her home. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/2015/9/14/liberia-gripped-by-ebolas-many-tentacles monthly 0.5 2017-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442416633160-PSZ150KVCU4VQ8NRLZXC/140919-lbr-wingard-0055-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Emmanuel Patrick, 55, was an instructor at the Salvation Army School in Monrovia, Liberia. He’s been teaching for 26 years—four of them at the Salvation Army School. Since the schools are closed due to the Ebola outbreak, he doesn’t have a job to support his wife and six children. He spends the equivalent of $1.75 a day to take a taxi to the Ministry of Health in hopes of being hired as a temporary day worker, but there are not enough jobs to fill the demand. If he gets hired for a day, he’ll make $5.90. It costs over $5 per day to feed his family, and the cost of living—including rice, a staple of the local diet—is going up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442285522105-RTVRKUWEKPUB31RDP118/140818-lbr-wingard-0137-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Hana, who sells donuts, lays across a counter once filled with meat products for sale in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 18, 2014. Waterside Market is typically a bustling commerce center in downtown Monrovia. Now, with fears of Ebola, vendors are struggling to sell their goods. The Liberian Government is threatening to close down the market which sits next to the largest township, West Point, where members of the community broke into an Ebola isolation unit on August 16. Because of concern that Ebola is spread through contaminated bush meat, stalls that used to be filled with meat are now empty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442285522077-XJXUPYTU689VUHLFUW5Y/140918-lbr-wingard-0476-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Ibrahim, 20, sells shoes in Waterside Market in downtown Monrovia on Sept. 18, 2014. Normally at this time of year he sells shoes for students going back to school. On a typical day he would sell between two and five pairs. Since the Ebola virus epidemic, sales have plummeted. Schools are closed and Liberians are staying at home as much as possible. Many people have lost their jobs and are living on their savings to survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442285523627-UQL7MNNNVCHVJ78CU0ZO/140918-lbr-wingard-0592-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Anne Benson, 49, sells used clothes in Waterside Market to support her nine children and five grandchildren in Monrovia on September 18, 2014. She lives with her husband and children in Sinkor. Since the Ebola outbreak her sales have plummeted. She used to sell the equivalent of $23 to $35 per day. Now she’s lucky if she sells $6 worth. She says only people in town are buying. People are not traveling to the market anymore because of the costs of transportation and the fear of taxis, which are often carrying Ebola patients to Ebola Treatment Units. When she travels to work in a taxi, she protects herself from the other passengers in the car with a long sweater. She makes seven of her nine children stay at home all day to protect them from the Ebola virus and regularly uses hand sanitizer and their bucket of chlorine water at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442285526554-Q1YWDUVESD1M8WQKMZLN/140918-lbr-wingard-0781-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Oretha Sampon, 40, sells fish in Waterside Market next to West Point in Monrovia on September 18, 2014. Before the Ebola Outbreak she would sell 50 to 100 fish each day. Now she only sells about 25. She says no one is buying during the crisis because because of the precarious economy. Business owners are forced to live off their savings—if they have them—because they are not making enough to cover their expenses. Oretha used to come sell six times a week in the market, but now she only comes three times a week. With the cost of goods and transport going up and sales going down Oretha has lost her means to support her four children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1442285528055-SRG81FYYDCFU50OT52A4/140919-lbr-wingard-0189-web.jpg Photo Stories - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles Vincent, 24 (center, in blue) and Junior, 20 (middle, in red), both residents of West Point, atownship that has been one of the hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic, used to drive motorcycles for a living — a form of local transport in Liberia used like taxis. After the government banned motorcycles in downtown Monrovia they had to stop. Now, because of Ebola, they can’t find any work and are feeling disgruntled. They want a job, but no one is hiring so they wait on the side of the street at the entrance of West Point. http://www.namuhmedia.com/photo-stories/powering-the-ebola-response monthly 0.5 2016-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476437467261-N5T0PXXUR1X6I74988PF/image-asset.jpeg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response A father is devastated in Dolo Town after he was unable to get his son into an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) . It’s unclear whether he has Ebola as he can’t get to a facility for testing — an all too common problem. The U.S. Government is helping build and staff several new facilities in Liberia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476439618396-5XJT2AOCPSMC2VMCGKJJ/140922-lbr-wingard-0447-web.jpg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response A patient lies in a bed at the newly opened Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 22, 2014. The patient is getting an intravenous treatment – a crucial part of treatment for Ebola because the virus quickly dehydrates those it infects. However, using IV is also considered risky for health workers if they do not take proper precautions and not all treatment centers are using them. At the Island Clinic, a concrete wall and glass window offers those outside the clinica sobering view into the patient area. While I am standing less than a foot from this man, the perception is that I’m peering into a restricted and isolated world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476439403038-22QU1T8UHZ3RJYA0GGPZ/15310387276_7a30de2a80_k.jpg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response The entrance for health care workers going into Island Clinic, a new Ebola Treatment Unit that opened in Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 21, 2014 and within one day, reached capacity. The building was a Doctors without Borders hospital during Liberia’s Civil War. It was neglected for several years until the government, with help from the World Health Organization, transformed it into a 100-bed clinic in response to the surge of patients needing care due to the Ebola crisis that is hitting Liberia especially hard. Many people are calling the battle against the Ebola epidemic a “biological war” and now these same facilities that were used during the country’s long Civil War are finding a new use as Liberia struggles to contain the crisis. USAID has provided two generators to the facility which are providing power for lights, pumps for water, and washing machines to clean scrubs worn by health care workers under their personal protective equipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476439404989-MIAEGUHIPIXVQFJGLEG4/15330292141_d3c84816ae_k-1-2.jpg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response A family waits at the entrance to Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, which was opened by the World Health Organization and the Liberian Ministry of Health in response to the surge of patients needing an Ebola Treatment Unit. Here, a health worker in protective gear tells the family to wait on the side as they open the doors for an ambulance to exit the facility. Before the facility opened on September 21, ambulances and patients arrived at the gates waiting to be admitted. Just a day after opening, the clinic is already at capacity. USAID has provided two generators and other supplies to equip the facility with life-saving care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476439404712-EVJ42OVS2Y4UROUFI0TG/15333209875_7b9995ce29_k.jpg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response Health care workers put on personal protective equipment before going into the hot zone at Island Clinic, in Monrovia, Liberia on Sept. 22, 2014. The 100-bed clinic opened on Sept. 21, and within one day it is already at capacity after approximately 100 Ebola patients were moved from the nearby Redemption Hospital and ambulances brought other Ebola-stricken patients from the community. There are still more patients on the way. The facility was set up by the World Health Organization and Liberia’s Ministry of Health in response to the surge of patients needing an Ebola Treatment Unit. USAID has provided two generators and other supplies the facility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476439403073-OETKSJ8GG5A439ZW990F/15147172397_682f5d218b_k.jpg Photo Stories - Powering the Ebola Response Hygienists at the ebola treatment unit at Island Clinic in Monrovia wash health workers’ scrubs, a vital part of the operation at the new clinic, which opened September 21, 2014. Health workers at the clinic must follow extensive protocol to protect themselves. All scrubs worn under their personal protective equipment and shoes must be washed thoroughly in chlorine water and then with soap. 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beat the odds and recovered from Ebola by accessing early treatment In July 2014, a strange illness began ripping through William Poopei's family. Within weeks, 14 family members were dead, including William's wife, and both William and his six-year-old son Patrick were experiencing Ebola symptoms. Thankfully, William's nephew advised him to report to an Ebola Treatment Unit, where both William and Patrick tested positive for the virus. With the help of Doctors Without Borders, William and his son were able to recover and have graciously agreed to share their story with the world. Read about Patrick's story of survival published in The Guardian here. Music: Yusuke Tsutsumi, Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428703790600-KUL4B1USM1FXP3OTDXTT/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - From Ebola Patient to Survivor to Activist Korlia's Story of Inspiration As a Physician Assistant, Korlia Bonarwolo was just doing his job when he provided care for his colleague in the emergency room of Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town in Monrovia, Liberia. When, despite his efforts, she tragically died, a chill ran down his spine. "What if it was Ebola, and what if I am next?" he thought. Ten days later, he began to experience signs and symptoms of Ebola. Thanks to his quick thinking and early treatment, Korlia survived. Now, he is helping train fellow healthcare workers assigned to Ebola Treatment Units, and is spearheading the formation of an association of survivors in his native Liberia. "Somebody who survived Ebola should be celebrated," he says. Watch his inspiring story. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1446309979535-K6EHCKCQDT3BAVGQ0D6P/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Mother of Many Decontee's Story When 23-year-old Ebola survivor Decontee Davis of Liberia fell ill in early August 2014, she assumed it was any number of West African sicknesses that come with fever, vomiting, and stomach pain. Luckily, Decontee's family was educated about Ebola and, when her symptoms continued to progress, brought her to an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). Initially, Decontee was resistant to entering the unit; but after hearing the testimony of an Ebola survivor, she was convinced it was her only choice. That testimony saved Decontee's life. On September 5, 2014, after nearly three weeks of treatment, she was declared Ebola-free and released from the ETU. Inspired by a survivor whose story gave her hope, Decontee is now working at a center for children who have come in contact with Ebola patients and are under 21 days of observation. "I feel I can do it, because I have passed through it. I know the pain it can cause," says Decontee, a mother of one who is now a mother of many. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Raegan Hodge Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard Awards: 2015 Silver Davey Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428704138462-8WVYX9UG909N8SBNIYBI/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Sisters in Survival Ebola Survivors Bendu and Anita’s Unique Friendship When Bendu Howard and Anita Cole first met, neither one knew if she would live to see tomorrow. After contracting the Ebola virus from their respective relatives, the young women found themselves laying side by side at the Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Bong County, Liberia, which is managed by International Medical Corps (IMC). Under the care of IMC doctors like Pranav Shetty, Bendu and Anita managed to overcome the often deadly disease and were released within days of each other in late October 2014. The friendship they forged on the confirmed side of the ETU, where those patients who have tested positive for Ebola are treated, only grew after Bendu and Anita were released, and they now live together "like sisters". Recognizing the critical role early treatment played in their survival, 18-year-old Bendu and 20-year-old Anita have returned to the Bong County ETU to offer their support to current Ebola patients. It was Bendu's idea to return with the offer to help, and Anita soon followed. Now, the two "sisters" work side by side to care for, support, and encourage fellow Ebola victims." Just the way others help me to save my life, I am so proud that I can be there to help another person to save their life," says Anita. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Raegan Hodge Videography: Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428704901428-RO0YYTJTT9IEB276DXEQ/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Humanizing Ebola Treatment Balancing Clinical Care with Psychosocial Needs When Dr. Pranav Shetty landed in Liberia in early August 2014, only two of the country's 15 counties had fully operational Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs): Montserrado County, which is the seat of the national capital, and Lofa County, which is the site of the first confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia. With infection rates on a continuing upward climb across the country, many Liberians were putting themselves and others at great risk by travelling long distances to reach these ETUs, which were stretched beyond capacity and forced to turn patients away due to lack of beds. To help reduce the patient burden on the existing ETUs, Dr. Shetty and his organization, International Medical Corps (IMC), decided to open an IMC-managed, USAID-funded ETU in Bong County. The decision to open a unit in Bong was a strategic one made with the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare: though the bulk of Ebola cases were in Montserrado and Lofa at the time, numbers in Bong, which lies between the other counties and has a large population, were rising. Save the Children constructed the facility and Dr. Shetty and his team, including many Liberian staff, were left to run it. By September 2014, the Bong County ETU was up and running. Designed with great care for the Ebola patients in mind, IMC decided to also establish a graveyard at the site. The establishment of the graveyard was warmly received by Ebola survivors like Anita Cole, who lost her father to the virus. Funerals and marked graves are a critical part of Liberian culture. Graves are so important that the country has dedicated a national holiday - Decoration Day - to decorating them. The Bong County ETU graveyard has allowed families to be involved in burial processes, which are performed by trained workers in full protective gear, and has provided families with closure by dedicating a grave to their loved one that they can mark and decorate on their yearly holiday. This video pays tribute to Dr. Shetty and the IMC team that made both the ETU and the graveyard possible. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Raegan Hodge Videography: Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428709951483-3ZOMJYRVM4YJ6S90ELVE/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Humble Hero Foday Gallah’s Story of Strength, Sacrifice, and Survival Foday Gallah is a modest man with an admirable goal: to become an anesthetist so that he can help improve the health and well-being of his fellow Liberians. Just two courses away from his first nursing degree, Foday currently supervises a fleet of six ambulances operating free of charge to citizens in Montserrado County, seat of the Liberian capital city of Monrovia. When he joined the ambulance service in February of 2014, the fleet typically received calls to transport ill patients or pregnant women going into labor to nearby health centers. The work was difficult, but the risk to Foday, who is also a paramedic, and his team’s lives was minimal. All that changed in June of 2014, when the Ebola outbreak that had been ripping across Lofa County reached Montserrado. With too few ambulances, too few Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) beds, and too few specialized healthcare workers in his native Liberia to tackle the growing epidemic, Foday knew his country needed him more than ever. So instead of walking away from the job and, with it, the heightened risk of contracting Ebola – a brutal virus that kills by attacking the immune system and causing multi-organ failure – Foday maintained his leading position on the fleet, dispatching units to make pick-ups of suspected Ebola cases across Montserrado County and driving one of the vehicles himself. His goal: to ensure that Ebola patients made it to one of the few ETUs operating in Montserrado County at the time, so that they might survive. The decision to become a frontline responder in the Ebola outbreak almost cost Foday Gallah his life. After responding to the same home numerous times to pick up a total of seven family members, all of whom died, Foday gave his name and number to the neighbors so that the last relative, a four-year-old boy, might be saved if he came down with Ebola symptoms. The neighbors inevitably called, and what happened next solidified Foday’s status as a hero. Foday’s actions earned him a place on one of the covers of the December 2014 TIME Magazine “Person of the Year” edition, which honored the Ebola Fighters. This moving video captures his bravery and altruism. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Raegan Hodge Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428710132979-XCE32WWMWOGOG28XVZCL/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Triumph Amid Tragedy Esther's Story of Resilience and Recovery in the Midst of Loss When Esther Mulbah's family fell ill in late September 2014, Ebola was raging across her native Liberia, with hundreds of cases reported each week, the majority in Esther's home county of Montserrado. Despite the dismal statistics, Esther, her husband, her stepson, and her biological son managed to avoid the virus, which can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or corpse. All that changed when Esther's husband, a taxi driver, sought to help a sick friend by giving him a lift in his cab. The friend squeezed into the trunk, where he reportedly vomited. Days later, Esther's husband began running a high fever. Like many in Liberia, Esther and her family tried to take her husband directly to the nearest Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). Though advised to call for an ambulance, the urgency of her husband's condition and reports of delayed ambulance deployments led the family to bring their sick relative directly to the ETU in a private vehicle. Tragically, the ETU was full and turned the family away. Esther's husband died, and soon after, she and her stepson began developing symptoms. With the nearest ETU at capacity, Esther's aunt urged her to go to the ETU in Foya, Lofa County, located hundreds of miles away from Monrovia. Esther went, but her mother-in-law, who was frightened by her own son's death, forbade Esther from bringing her grandson - Esther's stepson - with her. Esther survived, but the virus claimed her stepson's life. In this video, the devoted mother tells her story of triumph and tragedy to the world, and pleads with her fellow Liberians to seek treatment as soon as possible if they begin to experience the signs and symptoms of Ebola. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1446310524737-DZC1EZ6JYL4VQ1NJY3N3/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Strength From Within The First Pregnant Woman to Survive Ebola in Liberia Josephine Karwah’s parents always valued health, science, and generosity – beliefs they passed down to their daughter, who is studying biology and chemistry with the aim of joining the healthcare field. At the start of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Josephine’s parents were well on their way to opening a community clinic. So as nearby friends and family fell ill with the virus, which was easily mistaken by the Karwahs and others for more familiar sicknesses like malaria and typhoid, the couple opened their doors to patients without hesitation. This altruism came at a heavy price: within two weeks of caring for a growing number of sick friends and relatives, Josephine, her uncle, her sister, and her parents all came down with Ebola. Josephine was several months pregnant at the time. When it became clear that Ebola had arrive at their doorstep, the Karwah family immediately sought specialized care. But when they arrived at the ELWA Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Monrovia, the facility was overwhelmed with patients. Due to her pregnancy and the low survival rate associated with pregnant women infected with Ebola, Josephine was labeled a “special case,” given several check-ins, and instructed to drink plenty of water. The death of eight expecting mothers at the ETU heightened Josephine’s fears for her own life and that of her unborn child, but she pressed on with her treatment routine. Even the healthcare workers in the ETU did not think she would recover. Josephine proved them all wrong and became the first pregnant woman in Liberia to survive Ebola. Sadly, her parents did not make it. While Josephine’s story garnered significant media attention, her community remained distant and skeptical of her recovery. When she was first released from the ETU, only her boyfriend, George Weah, stood by her. In a show of solidarity and support, George was also there when Josephine began experiencing severe stomach pains and bleeding. The couple tried to catch a taxi to return to the ELWA for treatment, but due to fears associated with external bleeding during Ebola times, no driver would pick them up. Josephine miscarried on the street – a tragedy she says was more painful than anything she experienced at the ETU. But instead of sinking into depression, she channeled her energy into working with the US military to give practical training on counseling techniques for those working in ETUs. In loving memory of her parents, she still plans to open a community clinic. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428710866975-G357NA4VIO2YTVCHK78L/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Preacher of Truth Recovery Gives Pastor Lafayette a New Gospel to Share When the Ebola outbreak began in late March 2014, rumors abound in Liberia about the source, nature, and even reality of the mysterious virus. With too few trusted sources of information to which to turn, many Liberians were skeptical of health authorities and their repeated warnings. In fact, trust in official sources was so low that some Liberians thought that local hospitals and Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) were injecting patients with lethal substances, causing their deaths. It was in this context that Pastor Lafayette Vinton and his wife, a dedicated nurse, opened their home to patients afraid to visit health centers. Sadly, and despite their good intentions, Pastor Lafayette and his wife put themselves directly in the line of Ebola fire when they started their home practice. Several days after treating a presumed Ebola patient, Pastor Lafayette’s wife came down with a strong case of what the couple initially thought was malaria. When his wife did not get better, Pastor Lafayette, who also began feeling ill, took her to ELWA Hospital, where they both tested positive for Ebola and were admitted into the ETU. The specialized care came too late for Pastor Lafayette’s wife: four days after their admission, the preacher heard her screaming in pain; minutes later, she was dead. In a state of grief and shock, the rumors of lethal substances came flooding back to Pastor Lafayette, who began to fear for his own life. He fled the ETU on foot, eventually making it to a busy marketplace. Luckily, his brother and fellow pastors were able to convince him to return to ELWA, where his faith in the treatment plan was restored and he eventually recovered. Since then, Pastor Lafayette has been on an awareness crusade to stop the spread of the virus and end stigmatization of survivors. “I’ve been called for a particular purpose: to encourage [the Christian community] that the virus [is] actually real,” he says. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428711490165-5UE1PJPTMPEGGDQZ98JD/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - A Natural Leader How Ebola Survivor Amadu Konneh Went From Key Leader at his Mosque to Key Leader in his Community At the start of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Amadu Konneh doubted the severity of the virus; but as more and more cases surfaced in his community of Gardnersville, his mindset shifted. A devout Muslim who serves as secretary at his local mosque, Amadu eventually contracted Ebola from a severely ill woman whom he was called to pray over. Despite widespread rumors that Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) were akin to death traps, Amadu put his faith in his treatment plan, recovered from the virus, and has since emerged a trusted advocate for preventive and protective health practices. When Amadu first began experiencing Ebola symptoms, high levels of misinformation and public suspicion surrounded the virus. Some people did not believe that Ebola was real, others thought it could be treated with traditional measures, still others thought that doctors and nurses in ETUs were injecting patients with Ebola and causing their deaths. Instead of buying into these rumors, Amadu decided to make a leap of faith and trust the health authorities – if not for himself, than for his family and community. By following the advised practices of practicing self-isolation, calling the 4455 emergency hotline, and trusting his ETU treatment routine, Amadu managed to recover from the often deadly illness and to prevent his loved ones from being infected by him. These simple actions also made him a role model for his fellow mosque and community members. Unlike many Ebola survivors, Amadu was greeted warmly by his community when he returned home. A natural leader, he continues to spread the word about Ebola prevention and treatment and to clarify misinformation and concerns among his family, friends, neighbors, and Muslim peers. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Sarah Grile Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1430244740721-CYA1A6MKS1QQFD8D2PT1/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - From Fearful to Fearless Survivor Tejanie Golafaley Goes From Ebola Denier to Ebola Fighter Panic, fear, and denial are three of the most common obstacles to curbing an Ebola outbreak, and in the initial months of the outbreak in Liberia, all three were at play. As the number of Ebola cases shot up, suspicions about both the virus and the mysterious centers in which it was being treated also rose. With too few trusted sources of information to resolve doubts, many Liberians denied the virus – which in its early stages, mimics other common West African illnesses – existed. Fearful and misinformed citizens also avoided clinics, hospitals, and Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs), afraid of being misdiagnosed with Ebola or, worse yet, injected with the virus. Tejanie Golafaley of Bomi County, Liberia, was one among these skeptics. In mid-July 2014, Tejanie contracted Ebola from a sick friend after transporting the friend to a local village to avoid detection by health authorities. At that point, Tejanie was not convinced the virus was real and believed that if his friend was sent to an ETU, they would surely die. To their surprise, the two men were rejected from the community in which they sought refuge. When Tejanie himself fell ill, he consulted his sister, a local nurse, who encouraged him to seek specialized care. Afraid of being sent to a treatment center, Tejanie retreated to the bush, dodging road checkpoints, Ebola surveillance officers, and ambulances along the way. Only when his condition worsened did Tejanie leave the bush to accept water from a surveillance officer. The surveillance officer was the trusted source Tejanie needed. After speaking to the officer, Tejanie agreed to visit the Bomi County ETU, where he was treated for four weeks before recovering. Following his release, Tejanie felt a newfound duty to help fellow Ebola victims fight the disease, and signed up to work as a hygienist at the very ETU where he was cured. Watch Tejanie's story from fearful Ebola denier to fearless Ebola fighter. Music: Ryan Huff Editor: Raegan Hodge Videography: Sarah Grile, Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428713232371-V23I3JF9H8CJ15ILNM6G/image-asset.jpeg PCI Media: I Survived Ebola - Selfless Survivor The Unwavering Commitment of Jerald Dennis Helps Curb the Ebola Outbreak and Heal Those Wounded in its Path From working as a transporter for patients at JFK Hospital in Monrovia, to educating communities about Ebola prevention practices, to serving as a voice of hope for fellow patients during his own recovery, Ebola survivor Jerald Dennis is a selfless citizen committed to upholding the health of his fellow Liberians. After visiting a number of communities to spread awareness about the Ebola virus, Jerald began to feel ill. Suspecting it was Ebola, he isolated himself from his family and set out for JFK Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). Unfortunately, the center had no vacant beds, and Jerald was initially denied treatment. Minutes after he was turned away, the tragic death of one patient created the space needed for his admission. 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This is my target. ” http://www.namuhmedia.com/videos daily 0.75 2016-02-24 http://www.namuhmedia.com/usaid-ebola-frontlines daily 0.75 2016-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456185841985-NV20QTJSK719KYH6GUCT/image-asset.jpeg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Life Inside an Ebola Treatment Unit SUAKOKO, Liberia—”It becomes day-to-day life. You get into your PPE [personal protective equipment] and you go in every day and you feel safe,” explains Audrey Rangel – a nurse at the Bong County Ebola treatment unit run by International Medical Corps with support and funding from USAID. Before landing at Roberts International Airport in Monrovia on September 8, Audrey worked on a maternal, child health and nutrition program in Timor Leste. “I always wanted to do disaster relief work. The crisis started to take off. It was in the news a lot. People were talking about it. So I went online. I saw a position for an Ebola response nurse. To me it was just the right time. The description just kind of fit me. I was speaking with my husband and I was saying I can’t not do this. I can’t not do this…. They need people. There was an actual need for me. And I just kind of felt like the description was made for me. It was just perfect. I had to do it.” The Bong County Ebola treatment unit where Audrey was stationed is a four hour bumpy journey from Monrovia. Bong has some of the highest rates of infection after Lofa and Montserrado Counties. Their two ambulances drive for hours every day to pick-up patients in remote locations like Bong Mines where they picked-up 18-year-old Cephas after his father carried him on his back for an hour to a location where the ambulance could reach him. Audrey’s days are spent on the front lines of the Ebola response, suiting up in protective gear and caring for patients like Cephas. Even as she roots for survivors, she admits that it’s easy to get attached to her patients: “For some reason you’re sad to see them go.” “It’s turned out to be an amazing, amazing experience. I wouldn’t take it back for anything. I guess you can say it exceeded my non-expectations,” says Audrey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456185841985-NV20QTJSK719KYH6GUCT/image-asset.jpeg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Life Inside an Ebola Treatment Unit SUAKOKO, Liberia—”It becomes day-to-day life. You get into your PPE [personal protective equipment] and you go in every day and you feel safe,” explains Audrey Rangel – a nurse at the Bong County Ebola treatment unit run by International Medical Corps with support and funding from USAID. Before landing at Roberts International Airport in Monrovia on September 8, Audrey worked on a maternal, child health and nutrition program in Timor Leste. “I always wanted to do disaster relief work. The crisis started to take off. It was in the news a lot. People were talking about it. So I went online. I saw a position for an Ebola response nurse. To me it was just the right time. The description just kind of fit me. I was speaking with my husband and I was saying I can’t not do this. I can’t not do this…. They need people. There was an actual need for me. And I just kind of felt like the description was made for me. It was just perfect. I had to do it.” The Bong County Ebola treatment unit where Audrey was stationed is a four hour bumpy journey from Monrovia. Bong has some of the highest rates of infection after Lofa and Montserrado Counties. Their two ambulances drive for hours every day to pick-up patients in remote locations like Bong Mines where they picked-up 18-year-old Cephas after his father carried him on his back for an hour to a location where the ambulance could reach him. Audrey’s days are spent on the front lines of the Ebola response, suiting up in protective gear and caring for patients like Cephas. Even as she roots for survivors, she admits that it’s easy to get attached to her patients: “For some reason you’re sad to see them go.” “It’s turned out to be an amazing, amazing experience. I wouldn’t take it back for anything. I guess you can say it exceeded my non-expectations,” says Audrey. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/56cba1cb8a65e24ba87067d7/56cba1f106dcb7076ea20e9c/1456185826911/ USAID: Ebola Frontlines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456186069166-14D7V5VJ3KQNO2SXJ3DM/140926-lbr-wingard-0549-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Facing Death Six Days a Week ARTHINGTON, Liberia—What do you say to a mother who just lost her child? To a neighbor who just lost her best friend? How do you comfort them before you carry away the body of their loved one in a black bag in the back of a dark green pick-up truck? Varbah Dolley faces these scenarios six days a week. Varbah is tough – like most Liberian women who have lived through two civil wars. She is now fighting another a war, against an enemy she can’t see. Varbah is a member of a Liberian Red Cross burial team. Funding from USAID and support from the U.S.-based NGO Global Communities is providing burial-team support activities in all 15 counties of Liberia, as well as engaging with communities to share information on proper hygiene practices and preventing transmission through workshops, community meetings, and radio campaigns. From the moment they start showing symptoms, someone who has contracted the Ebola virus is highly contagious. The virus is spread through direct contact with bodily fluids including vomit, diarrhea, blood, and saliva. After the person dies, the body is even more contagious. In Liberia, rituals to prepare bodies for burial are contributing to the rapid spread of the virus. The dead body is typically washed and dressed by multiple people before being carried to a grave — a ripe situation for the virus to spread. Graves are also important landmarks for Liberians. Decoration Day, a government holiday, is dedicated to visiting and decorating family graves. It’s where they can speak with their ancestors and commune with them. As the burial team prepared to take one body, I heard a woman wail: “I will have nothing to decorate on Decoration Day.” To stop the spread of Ebola, burial teams have been mobilized across Liberia to provide safe disposal of contagious bodies, which often includes cremation. With the epidemic on the rise, every dead body is now considered an Ebola body. Varbah’s team leaves central Monrovia every morning to respond to reports of deaths. These calls often lead them to communities deep in rural Liberia. Last week, we drove for more than two hours over rough dirt terrain to reach Arthington – which also happens to be the birthplace of former warlord Charles Taylor. Varbah climbs out of the mud-splattered jeep and calmly walks over to a crowd with her notebook and pen. She jots down as much information as possible about each patient and their family for the report she submits every evening. “I know what you people are going through. But take courage,” she counsels the family of 6-year-old Phelica as they describe the events leading up to her untimely death. Phelica became inexplicably sick while playing outside. Her mother carried her to multiple hospitals for treatment. After spending a couple days at one hospital where they ran several lab tests, the doctor said she would not survive and Phelica died on the way home. Her father, who had cared for her, later began exhibiting symptoms of Ebola. A health team transported him to an Ebola treatment unit the day before we arrived. Like many in West Africa, when it comes to the current public health crisis, Phelica’s family is suspicious.“You don’t know what killed the person because they are hiding the truth from us,” Varbah tells me later in the car. Melvin Payoh, the assistant team leader of the burial team, suits up like an astronaut in the middle of the hot, rural village as onlookers gather and stare. A few minutes after disappearing past the first row of earth-walled homes, the team returns carrying a black bag. Everything about this Ebola outbreak feels unreal until men in white spacesuits walk through a town with a body-filled bag. A mother wails, “My baby, O. My baby, O.” Then it is painfully real. Numbers have names. Tears flow. Relatives fall on the ground. Hands flail. Melvin and his team lay Phelica’s little body in the back of a dark green pick-up truck. I think Varbah and Melvin have the hardest job fighting this Ebola outbreak. They face death six days a week in order to save more lives. When I asked Varbah why she applied for the position she replied, “I do this for my country.”   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456186906006-1UO0LFN9CPB8HDQENMDD/141015-lbr-wingard-0250-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - First Look at a New Hospital for Ebola Aid Workers HARBEL, Liberia—”Where have you done this before?” USAID Administrator Raj Shah asked on October 15, as he stepped through the taupe colored tent flap into the new 25-bed critical care hospital being built to treat all health care and aid workers who fall ill to Ebola. “Nowhere, sir. No one has,” replied an army engineer. Historically, mobile medical units like this one provide versatile trauma care for military operations. In this case, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) customized the Monrovia Medical Unit to treat highly contagious Ebola patients. Once complete, the hospital will be operated and staffed by a team of 65 specialized officers from the USPHS Commissioned Corps – an elite uniformed service with more than 6,800 full-time, highly qualified public health professionals, serving the most underserved and vulnerable populations domestically and abroad. The Commissioned Corps will deploy clinicians, administrators, and support staff to Liberia to treat health care workers with Ebola, and to continue efforts by USAID, DoD and international partners to build capacity for additional care in Liberia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456188563595-KDMBJZL41D55PZ2R2R92/15330292141_d3c84816ae_k-1.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Powering The Ebola Response: Monrovia’s Island Clinic MONROVIA, Liberia—One of the saddest things about the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is the inability for many patients to get treatment. In Dolo Town recently, I watched a father carry his ailing son in a wheelbarrow to the clinic for treatment, but they did not have the capacity to help. He had been calling the government hotline for four days to no avail. A team of NGO workers proceeded to call the hotline again and a personal ambulance, but they also couldn’t get any help. All the treatment centers were full. In the end, the clinic sent him and his son home along with two other patients. Different versions of the same story have repeated across Monrovia for weeks. Liberians, trying to do the right thing, called the hotline and drove their loved ones to the hospital only to be denied entrance. After hearing too many of these stories as I have documented the unfolding Ebola crisis over past weeks, the opening of another Ebola treatment unit (ETU) was a huge relief. With the help of USAID, the Liberian Government and the WHO opened the 100-bed facility on Sunday, September 21. To power the treatment center, USAID provided two generators, amongst other supplies. These generators are vital to the functioning of the clinic by providing power for lights, pumps for water, and washing machines to clean scrubs worn by health care workers under their personal protective equipment (PPEs). Miata, a nurse we met, said all the health care workers ran from nearby Redemption Hospital, the largest government-run hospital in Liberia, at first. A doctor and several nurses on staff became infected with Ebola and died as the outbreak was beginning in Liberia. But when a team of Ugandan health care workers arrived in Liberia who had fought previous Ebola outbreaks in their own country, they called them together for a training workshop. “That workshop inspired me to come back. If we don’t help the patients, who will?” Now, she is not afraid because she can cover herself with personal protective equipment before she enters the “hot zone” to provide food for patients fighting the Ebola virus. This new Island Clinic facility is helping. But many more beds and qualified health care workers are needed to meet the needs of growing numbers of patients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456189078692-H6DD7QASZPU5X387EUKI/140926-lbr-wingard-0761-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - The Fight on Ebola Continues in the Lab HARBEL, Liberia—In a heavily forested area about 65 miles east of Monrovia, Liberia, statues of stone monkeys keep vigil over a sprawling campus of buildings that has seen better days. The Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research (LIBR) was established in the 1970s as a premier research facility to develop scientific breakthroughs for a variety of viral infections, including hepatitis. The rusted, empty animal cages serve as a reminder of the past research conducted here. Now, the facility finds itself drawn into an epidemiological battle against another outbreak, this time, the Ebola virus. LIBR is one of only a few laboratories in Liberia where Ebola specimens are sent to be tested. Due to the spiralling number of Ebola cases in the region, boosting LIBR’s laboratory testing capacity has been a top priority for a team of medical and disaster experts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “People are dependent on these test results,” said Gary Wes Carter, an emergency management chief with USAMRIID. “The longer a sample sits here, the longer a doctor in the field goes without an answer needed to make critical decisions about patient care.” Since April, American laboratory and disease control experts have been working at LIBR to process Ebola samples and train local technicians. When the rate of Ebola infections spiked in June, more equipment and personnel were brought in. As a result, LIBR’s lab processing capacity almost doubled from 40 specimens a day to more than 70. The goal is to eventually be able to test approximately 100 specimens a day, with assistance from the USAID-led Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the USAID Mission in Liberia. USAID’s disaster response and development experts are working to upgrade the laboratory facility by improving specimen containment, providing improved internet access, renovating hygiene facilities, repairing plumbing, and working with contractors to rewire the building so that it receives a steady source of electricity. “There are a number of projects underway,” said DART Logistics Officer Sergio Solis. “Working together, we could make LIBR not only more efficient, but more sustainable for the Liberian scientists and laboratory technicians who will be running the facility.” Laboratory experts with the USAMRIID agree that partnerships are the key to combatting the Ebola outbreak. “We couldn’t have made the lab sustainable in the long-term without the assistance of USAID,” said Carter. “I have never been to an outbreak response where there has been this much intergovernmental collaboration. This has been amazing.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456189280871-ZSBUMYT13NIFB5CMNT0Q/140922-lbr-wingard-0422-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - We have to demystify Ebola MONROVIA, Liberia—Before the United States deployed an Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), there was Justin Pendarvis. As one of the Public Health Advisors at USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Justin was the first disaster expert tapped to travel to West Africa and assess the growing Ebola situation for USAID. In early July, Justin traveled to Guinea – home of the epidemic’s ‘patient zero.’ His mission: to observe and gauge the growing outbreak, understand the coordination at play for the response, and identify key challenges. In Guinea he observed the protocols required to run an Ebola treatment unit (ETU) at one of Medecins sans Frontieres’ first facilities – an intense operation out of the capital city, Conakry. The following week he headed to Sierra Leone where frightening narratives were emerging from Kenema, one of the country’s largest towns hit hard by the virus. “People were working around the clock, but more Ebola cases kept popping up,” recalls Justin. Health care workers were also falling ill. By the time Justin landed in Liberia a week later it was clear that a significant amount of resources were needed to support West Africa and help save lives. Weak public health systems fell prey to the disease, and more help was needed. With key insight provided by Justin, USAID stood up the Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) – the team of roughly 30 people from across the U.S. Government leading and coordinating the U.S. Ebola response. Since then there has been an “evolution of thought,” says Justin, as everyday USAID, alongside the affected countries and international community continue to learn how best to respond to this unprecedented crisis and fight the world’s largest Ebola outbreak in history. In Liberia’s capital Monrovia, most residents know somebody who has been affected by the epidemic. Justin, like many West Africans, finds Ebola and this humanitarian response to be very personal. He first arrived in Liberia in 2009 and considers it his second home. His first three-and-a-half years in country were spent working with a Liberian NGO to strengthen and rebuild the country’s health infrastructure — systems that had been destroyed by decades of brutal civil war. But progress was being made. Five years ago, only 11 percent of women in Liberia were delivering babies at health clinics, putting most — those delivering at home often in unsanitary conditions – at great risk for complications and death. Liberia had one of the globe’s highest maternal mortality rates. Fast forward to last year, where more than half of Liberian women were safely delivering at hospitals and clinics – a significant health breakthrough.Although maternal mortality is still high, the numbers have started to fall. Today, in the face of Ebola, any woman who comes to a hospital to deliver her baby and is bleeding becomes untouchable. Staff hesitate to provide medical care due to fear and risk of contracting the virus, which is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids. “We have to demystify Ebola, it’s not a superhuman and magical thing. We know how to control it, and we know how to keep people safe – but there is a crippling fear.” Justin says that many of the challenges in responding to the Ebola crisis are fighting that exact fear, and arming West Africans with knowledge to understand the virus and learn how to weave protective measures into their daily life and cultural traditions. As USAID continues to work toward bringing more Ebola treatment units online, the DART is also prioritizing messaging campaigns that educate communities on how to protect themselves. These efforts have already proven to be life-saving. “Liberia is definitely a special place to me. I feel lucky to be in a position where I can hopefully contribute, and am proud of the momentum we’re now seeing – it’s this impact and the collective commitment alongside the Liberian people to fight Ebola that drives me forward every day.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456192165820-5XVKNX1PIJD2RETU4880/140918-lbr-wingard-0592-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Liberia Gripped By Ebola’s Many Tentacles MONROVIA, Liberia—While the Ebola virus is having devastating impacts on Liberia’s health system, beyond the spotlight it is having an equally damaging impact on the economy. We have yet to know the full extent of the impacts, but the warning signs are already showing. Sales have plummeted in Waterside Market—an economic hub in downtown Monrovia where Liberians trek to buy commodities like fresh fish from the Atlantic Ocean, school shoes, or used household goods imported from America. And at this time of year, many parents should be back-to-school shopping. However, with all of Liberia’s schools closed and many parents now jobless, vendors wait for days sometimes before selling a single ware. I stopped by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare one morning and met Emmanuel Patrick, 55. He was an instructor at the Salvation Army School until the government closed the schools due to the epidemic. Now, to support his six children, he travels to the Ministry every morning in the hopes of obtaining a day labor job working in the warehouse. But there is not enough work, and the income doesn’t cover the cost of increasing living expenses. You can find stories like Emmanuel’s on every corner of the nation’s capital and throughout Liberia: Ordinary Liberians, who, while not infected with the virus, are suffering its impacts.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456187624759-0MFVJTIXPAB2HYWY060S/140924-lbr-wingard-0543-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Andrew Hill: “There’s no standard blueprint for an Ebola treatment unit.” MONROVIA, Liberia—The buzzwords here in Monrovia are “unprecedented” and “exponential.” Everything about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is unprecedented as it spreads exponentially. U.S. Army civil engineer Andrew Hill is part of the USAID-led Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) tasked with implementing an unprecedented response to the Ebola crisis. An essential part of that response is constructing and staffing new treatment facilities that can isolate and care for the growing number of people infected with the virus. On the ground in Liberia, one of the first tasks by Andrew and the U.S. military engineers was to conceptualize and design an ETU. Working hand-in-hand with members of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), they consulted the experts with a gold standard ETU model: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Building off of their expertise, they tailored the designs to create Department of Defense and AFL-specific versions, which could be built and implemented with their resources. The plans started with a hand-drawn sketch that Andrew created while driving in a car on his way to various sites. That sketch formed the basis for what would become a full concept and material list needed to begin ETU construction. The U.S. Army Africa engineers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Sendmeyer, pooled their collective professional engineering knowledge and tools in order to continue developing and finalizing the design, and to determine the remaining requirements needed for implementation. The first site to use the design is scheduled to begin construction imminently — and this model will be replicated and constructed across Liberia by a team of 150 AFL engineers to help save lives and stop the spread of Ebola. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456188277332-H5EVRY3V7UT7VAPYCEFU/140924-lbr-wingard-0634-web.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - René Van Slate: “I’ve pretty much done everything that terrifies me… except for Ebola” MONROVIA, Liberia—A veteran in humanitarian disaster assistance, René Van Slate is afraid of nothing… nothing except Ebola. She was on the ground after the flooding in Thailand in 2011, typhoon Bopha in the Philippines in 2012, the Republic of Marshall Islands drought in 2013, and typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last year. Now, on her fifth disaster response team René explains her trepidation, “Ebola is microscopic, it’s covered in mystery and it’s incredibly deadly.” But, René is here with USAID facing her greatest fear on the front lines of the Ebola response in Liberia. René touched down with the first crew from USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) at the beginning of August. Since then, she has liaised between the military on the ground and the U.S. civilian team, advising and coordinating logistics to best utilize military assets and personnel. Specifically, she is working on Operation Liberty with the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) supported by U.S. forces to build Ebola treatment units across Liberia. One of the greatest challenges on the ground is that almost no one had ever dealt with an Ebola outbreak other than Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and those were much smaller and rural. “The whole humanitarian community is learning Ebola,” René says. “Though [building] an Ebola treatment unit is simple, like rocket science, it must be done perfectly every time.” In an operation as large and complex as the current Ebola response, it takes a team of people working day in and day out processing requests to arrange for all the logistics to get materials transported, imported and delivered to where they are needed. The best part of her job is days like today, when requests are fulfilled, referring to Thursday’s arrival of 9,000 community protection kits—a joint effort of UNICEF, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and USAID—as part of the response to help Liberians fight Ebola. Each kit includes biohazard bags, soap, personal protective equipment, and gloves. They will be distributed to Ebola Community Centers across Liberia in partnership with UNICEF.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1456187217489-NBCJZ472YBTI062BVRLL/Untitled-1.jpg USAID: Ebola Frontlines - Paloma and Alisha: The Information Gurus Behind the U.S. Ebola Response MONROVIA, Liberia—Though Alisha McMichael and Paloma Clohossey’s jobs on the Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) aren’t as high profile as the health care workers who suit up in protective gear everyday, one could argue that their role is just as vital to the U.S. response. “Alisha and Paloma bring all the threads of the operation together for reporting and information collection — they know the ins and the outs of the response as a whole,” said Bill Berger, the Ebola Disaster Assistance Response Team Leader. They are the DART’s Information Officers – also known as ‘IOs.’: the information gurus who compile, collate and verify all the information about the U.S. Government’s Ebola response efforts and the crisis at large. After absorbing every last detail and fact, they distribute them to team members on the ground and back to Washington, D.C. so that everyone is on the same page and has the correct information they need, when they need it. In a disaster response environment – especially one like the Ebola epidemic, where everyday the international community is navigating new territory – information is critical. Alisha and Paloma constantly take in and filter information to ensure they’re up to date on the latest — no easy feat given the ever-evolving situation as the crisis progresses and the U.S. response gains momentum. In fact, Alisha has been dubbed the DART’s ‘sync-master,’ responsible for tracking daily the progress of Ebola treatment units, community care centers, trainings for health care workers, burial teams, airlifts of relief supplies, and other response efforts – following the military’s Sync Matrix model. Meanwhile, Paloma writes daily updates about the situation on the ground to inform Washington and communicate key gaps, challenges and successes. Being a DART IO requires a lot of attention to detail and long days, but working 24/7 doesn’t get them down. “The best part by far,” says Paloma, “is getting to have the opportunity to do work that feels meaningful. I’ve been given a chance to contribute to something that I believe in.” Adds Alisha, “This is a great team, and I know everyone gives their best everyday. 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The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078553595-NGU13BHFV6RECYO5BZXN/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1199-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078553960-J0WP1SY03WPOZ1VVFL6F/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1190-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078556660-XIZ3RYA6LGZTHYNN6UYP/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1200-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078559558-5WEPNDEM4AW94928KNQM/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1333-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078561627-VONJYQMNC0ZAKB3Y9QHK/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1334-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078562170-R6V4LHZ60ZGZT5AO6PQ5/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1358-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078564928-KJ8MGBADO5KWBQKWJES2/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1380-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078564995-X3N7ZV4IC509PZMJ1UDN/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1383-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1455974980627-AX5V971NZQF3FQH5X1IW/150208-ethiopia-wingard-0635-web.jpg Ethiopia: Resilience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470079913733-E05O5Y6T3YADH2NTBZ1Z/150208-ethiopia-wingard-0879-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha and her family GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470079925521-FKXBMURFPSNAKJDWQZIJ/150209-ethiopia-wingard-0232-web.JPG Ethiopia: Resilience - Dhaki Faranjicha GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 9, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/usaid-ftf-flowers daily 0.75 2016-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916812192-I7HBSN8B4L41FWRCATND/160515-bangladesh-wingard-0018-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Now, Sajeda, 34, is a super star in the growing flower industry in Bangladesh. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916812192-I7HBSN8B4L41FWRCATND/160515-bangladesh-wingard-0018-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Now, Sajeda, 34, is a super star in the growing flower industry in Bangladesh. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917060981-CUNG7DX63IBGTGXCG9C9/160516-bangladesh-estey-0169.jpg USAID FTF Flowers When Sajeda first started flower farming she struggled to find buyers. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917024626-UPJML11C17BB6VI9I13M/160516-bangladesh-estey-0156.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Some days Sajeda would sit by the road and wait hoping a buyer would drive by. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916964120-PES9JNNBWZZIV6TIHP78/160516-bangladesh-estey-0137.jpg USAID FTF Flowers After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916913046-THUZQDVLI8KF3A1EB08J/160516-bangladesh-estey-0107.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Sajeda learned how to use fertilizer to increase her yields. She pounds seeds, mixes them with water and then sprinkles it on her flower beds. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917130900-GVAACJDL4NM1GDMNNKIF/160516-bangladesh-estey-0205.jpg USAID FTF Flowers - With her increased income from flower sales, Sajeda has made imp HARIA, BANGLADESH: May 16, 2016 - Sajeda, 34, is a super star in the growing flower industry in Bangladesh. Last year a Bangladeshi cellphone company featured her in one of their ad campaigns. Before that her face adorned a larger than life poster at a flower convention in the capital city, Dhaka. Sajeda never planned to be a flower farmer. She used to help her husband, MD. Imamul Hossain, 50, in their field in southern Bangladesh but when he fell out of a tree and broke his back ten years ago she had to take over the business to support the family including their two children—Moynul Islam Joy, 10, and Tania Yasmin, 17. She struggled to grow quality and quantity flowers at first. But, what was worse was she struggled to find buyers. She didn’t have a phone or buyers numbers so she had no way to contact them. Some days she would pick her Gerbera flowers, lay them in her basket woven of reeds/palm fronds, and wait by the roadside hoping a buyer would drive by. She didn’t know how else to find them. After hearing about a training from DAI/USAID, she learned methods to increase production (including pruning techniques and planting north to south), improve the quality of her flowers, how to package them, and how to store them. The result: she doubled her production and income. She then shared her newfound knowledge with neighboring farmers. Something else changed her life drastically: a cellphone. It changed everything actually. Now she can call the buyers and they come directly to her house and pick up the flowers after they've been cut/harvested and packaged. After packaging her flowers in rectangular baskets woven out of palm fronds, Sajeda's workers carry the baskets loaded with yellow, pink, red and white gerbera flowers to the roadside where they are loaded on to a buyer's bicycle driven cart. He rides to Godkhala Market nearby where they are loaded with other farmers into vans and transported to the capital city, Dhaka to be sold and sold and d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920507700-FJVIPGXL4X6B5RBAV6V5/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0298-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920492422-U28SB0WPLS0070AI93AE/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0269-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920515786-21IT39QQEN4WT88XTH8M/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0318-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920527163-25E8PUCV44I4HTXD66BH/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0447-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920920189-BJRN57YYCA1KEEPGOEUN/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0528-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Sajeda packages her flowers with plastic to help protect them before selling them. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920432307-0JS4MOV0AZPGSXELYZN0/160517-bangladesh-estey-0058-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Through training, Sajeda learned how to better package her flowers and connect to buyers. Her husband, Imamul Hossain, helps her package flowers before they are taken to the market. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920461788-4IHZ15DHVTSWZ6Z9XG9J/160517-bangladesh-estey-0218-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers One of the things Sajeda learned in the training was how to better package her flowers before selling to buyers to preserve them during the transport process. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920447669-731HDVI9J5V39RPSSX7Z/160517-bangladesh-estey-0190-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers One of the things Sajeda learned in the training was how to better package her flowers before selling to buyers to preserve them during the transport process. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920471906-SUJEIEB2D37L13E94YZE/160517-bangladesh-estey-0248-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Sajeda's flowers are transported from her farm via woven baskets to a local flower buyer's cart who then takes them to the local market. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920439693-2BLS1IK8P3OMDCP45J5W/160517-bangladesh-estey-0136-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Godkhala Market, Sajeda's flowers first stop. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920929190-CSCEZLKH09U8XTHVLLBX/160518-bangladesh-estey-0015-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Flowers grown across Bangladesh arrive at the Agargaon Flower Wholesale Market in Dhaka where wholesale buyers purchase them and resell them to boutiques and flower stands throughout the city. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920938392-2KMT39YINBM4GYFZM9XM/160518-bangladesh-estey-0111-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Flowers grown across Bangladesh arrive at the Agargaon Flower Wholesale Market in Dhaka where wholesale buyers purchase them and resell them to boutiques and flower stands throughout the city. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920950535-HJ64YKG07KW50PUUMFAL/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0001-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers - Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangl DHAKA, BANGLADESH: May 19, 2016 - Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangladesh for an evening wedding. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920950438-4559SDYPAHHICL0CBH7V/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0015-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers - Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangl DHAKA, BANGLADESH: May 19, 2016 - Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangladesh for an evening wedding. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920957066-076SVNC1LLBQD1VPVSXG/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0017-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangladesh for an evening wedding. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920971693-GFAIZXZ1KUMVTAYZKVGH/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0107-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangladesh for an evening wedding. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920965419-T21OHG2CCLQX1G9DLKBG/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0066-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers A bride and groom in Bangladesh ride off after their wedding ceremony with their car decorated with Gerbera flowers. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920965946-2PCJJMBY31S2ZLJJK8PA/160519-bangladesh-wingard-0083-web.jpg USAID FTF Flowers - A bride and groom in Bangladesh ride off after their wedding cer DHAKA, BANGLADESH: May 19, 2016 - Wedding coordinators prepare a venue with flowers grown in Bangladesh for an evening wedding. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/usaid-ftf-rice daily 0.75 2016-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1464297107499-M5FWU40IDDRMASQ7VB6G/160510-bangladesh-estey-0233-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1464297107499-M5FWU40IDDRMASQ7VB6G/160510-bangladesh-estey-0233-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548495351-PSR5JK5RG4ATGQH9K865/160510-bangladesh-estey-0233-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Tarani Kanto Shikari, 45, and his wife, Baby Shikari, wake up before dawn every morning to tend to their rice patties, cows, ducks, and vegetable garden in southern Bangladesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548517887-UCTROB95C17YED3YHB0P/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0620-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni and his wife start each day tending to their cows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548512170-UAZNMD5EY6XD2P7TFLZE/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0344-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni and his wife harvest fish from a nearby pond to prepare for breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548503508-XOIUCIX6YOSIRHDX1JV1/160510-bangladesh-estey-0567-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice The hardest time in Taroni's life was after his father passed away. "It was darkness all around. There was no one to help me," he remembers.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548526098-M6JD4WJWVV3J03MG041T/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0857-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni's vegetable seeds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548524123-T2AC7WU1PMYKEFW1TIMN/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0839-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Guti fertilizer helps Taroni double his rice and vegetable yields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548512781-OSYVMHYMQGC5Y0YSBB3S/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0427-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Through training funded by USAID, Taroni and his wife learned how to plant seedlings in a row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548528386-3DIOZI56M371I5C4H0UB/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0861-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Through training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to use fertilizer to increase his crop yields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548497668-MJLYZ9GNF09CPWJ1ALGI/160510-bangladesh-estey-0330-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice During harvest season, Taroni and his wife soak the rice they have harvested in the pond near their house. before boiling it and then laying it out to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465552571495-7YJBK3QMXRH1AUCPPVAO/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0144-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice During harvest season, Taroni and his wife soak their rice in the pond before boiling it and then laying it out to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548524669-X201C2RXWX2R1QGJ911B/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0805-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni spreads his rice harvest out on the ground to dry after soaking it in a pond and boiling it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548500580-TL75ZZLTD5OWVBQCA24O/160510-bangladesh-estey-0403-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni's wife, Baby Shakiri, spreads their rice harvest on the ground to dry after soaking it in a pond and boiling it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548520664-4I9J7UZL6V49LC3CJ5L5/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0779-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Baby Shikari, Taroni's wife, spreads their rice harvest out on the ground to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548506973-A180ML5Y202R63TK0WQM/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0200-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice From an agriculture training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to increase the yields of his vegetable garden by planting in rows and using Guti fertilizer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548509232-SO4ELSVR5DQV791MQGJJ/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0263-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice From an agriculture training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to increase the yields of his vegetable garden by planting in rows and using Guti fertilizer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553094001-NR4WUXRWNMGAA3CU1KFT/160511-bangladesh-estey-0108-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni harvesting rice -- after receiving training funded by USAID, he now produces twice as much rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553093251-KTMPZJIWTH23WHJ8AVPV/160511-bangladesh-estey-0131-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice USAID programs in Bangladesh have helped 1.97 million farmers increase their production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553097725-TW8ITAKH8BSX9B0IIEXY/160511-bangladesh-estey-0167-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice BARISAL, BANGLADESH: May 11, 2016 - Taroni Kanta, 45, is a small farmer owning 3.65 acres of land. He lives with his wife, Menoka Rani Shikari, his mother, one son who reads in class 7 and one daughter who has passed SSC and now doing diploma in nursing. He has a brother who works in Dhaka. He completed his study up to grade 7. He could not continue due to the economic condition of his family. Taroni had to take responsibility for the family expenses. He started rice farming at a very young age. He married to Menoka Rani, 34. They have 1 son and 1 daughter. At one stage he went to abroad to earn higher income and borrowed 200,000 Taka from his fellow farmers. But, he could not succeed in getting a good job abroad and returned back home to restart his rice farming. They used to live in a kutcha tin shed house. He used to cultivate only Boro rice in his 3.65 acres of land. He did not follow any good rice farming practices such as line sowing, using integrated pest management (IPM) methods, good quality seed and balanced doses of fertilizers etc. He met the Feed the Future Accelerating agriculture Productivity Improvement (AAPI) Activity staff and the field official of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and got to know about good agricultural practices including use of urea deep placement (UDP) technology. He first received training from USAID AAPI Activity in 2010 and later also attended a motivational field visit. After receiving training he began using UDP technology and other improved practices in rice farming and vegetable crops for last 5 years. On an average he received an incremental production of about 0.4 metric tons (882 pounds) of Boro rice every year. His income increased every year due to improved productivity of rice crop and also other vegetable crops as he applied improved rice farm management practices. He used the additional income to repay what was left of his loan (Tk. 150,000 already paid back), building another room in his house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553099593-VT9ZCKX2VA69A3TRTF57/160511-bangladesh-estey-0183-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni taught everything he learned in the USAID funded trainings to his family. Now they work together in the field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553111006-B96UPYRRDGHB23SEHCRN/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0178-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice After harvesting rice, farmers mill the rice with a machine to seperate the kernals from the shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548504745-TTS1ZR425FLTB4FWKEDR/160510-bangladesh-estey-0563-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni sells his rice to local buyers who come to his house with a scale and fill up bags with his rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548500534-2FPB8GUKCWASATCC5236/160510-bangladesh-estey-0540-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice With his increased income, Taroni is able to send his daughter, Trishna, to paramedic school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548516648-MXFGR01JK0ACK6JTQQ5S/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0520-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Taroni's wife, Baby Shikari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553104572-9TPFWGM7W8QX6C20DKIE/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0079-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Bangladeshi farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari (45) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553105092-S43ROVKUMO2UCLUS4VLV/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0115-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Bangladeshi rice farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari (45), and his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553108774-L7H1RABYNF4N1B6B3XFK/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0123-web.jpg USAID FTF Rice Bangladeshi rice farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari's son, Taposh (class 7). 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With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551184142123-VJENIDD9TJFYAGQ42QPE/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0552-web.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551183662022-7H68LA72JVNYN3CCT2JK/Kenya2.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551184089902-37Q486EN6F8LXJ563NB4/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0669-web.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551183637924-1TEUGA1VD8KV865HTJV1/Kenya6.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551184191730-R881FGDH8S2ESPTDJ3RM/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0198-web.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY - Yvonne Mukami (12) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551184209412-RN2D1R7BBWSZFRUC433W/20181209-Kenya-Wingard-0035-web.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY - Rebecca Gatiiria Mutiiria (41) GATUNGA, KENYA: December 9, 2018 – Rebecca is the mother of six daughters. She enjoyed school when she was young, but she had to drop out at 12 years old. Herr parents did not value girls’ education and believed it was time for her to help out more at home. 12 years old is also the time around which girls will undergo genital cutting. Once she went through the process, she was considered a woman, ready to get married and start a family. As her first daughter, Purity Gatwiri, reached the age of 12, she went through the Alternative Rite of Passage program. She did not want to be cut and Rebecca supported her decision since she knew from experience the harms it causes. Purity Gatwiri eldest daughter is now studying land survey at Pwani University in Mombasa. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551184237359-8R7XLURBZ4Z9RIWQ3GHI/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0035-web.jpg Stories - REBECCA'S STORY - Aniceta Kiriga, 60, started the Alternative Rite of Passage Cere MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. 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Justine has recovered completely and is now proudly raising awareness of fistula and its dangers as well as how to prevent it amongst the community. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557990868753-EX1DXZZ182HZ0X4M7M8D/20190326-Uganda-Doe-1020-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 26, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, guides her goats out of their pen. Four goats were given to Justine post-fistula surgery as part of a startup package. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557990887800-VWUBI5KQK5IVNJMWQCWC/20190326-Uganda-Doe-0982-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 26, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, helps her children wash up. Justine is a fistula survivor. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557990982725-Q7ABNROP86GM8FDVU334/20190328-Uganda-Doe-3445-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START MASAKA DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 28, 2019 - The welcome board at the Kitovu Mission Hospital where the USAID Fistula Care Plus program was introduced. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557991001715-JYQFPFQZFPVYKXLA64JZ/20190328-Uganda-Doe-3333-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START MASAKA DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 28, 2019 - Justine Nitele in the Kitovu Mission Hospital Fistula ward, where she stayed when she had fistula repair surgery in 2014. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557991019280-ACIHHW6IXEY1OGAJEIXD/20190328-Uganda-Doe-3166-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START MASAKA DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 28, 2019 - Fistula survivor Justine Nitele looks at an old photo of herself from when she delivered her child at Kitovu Mission Hospital. She also had her fistula repair surgery performed at this hospital. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557990957533-HQ62NOSVJ0NV27NAXCTM/20190327-Uganda-Doe-1867-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 27, 2019 - Justine Nitele addresses the group at a weekly community meeting. Before fistula repair surgery, she used to be apprehensive about attending this kind of social gathering because she was embarassed that people would find out about her condition. Now she uses these opportunities to raise awareness about safe birthing practices and fistula repair. Photo by: Carielle Doe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1557991040478-CPO5CC4E6PLL8RZ8U0E7/20190327-Uganda-Doe-2788-web.jpg Stories - JUSTINE'S FRESH START BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 27, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, with her husband. Justine is a mother of seven and a fistula survivor. Justine got fistula during a problematic labor of her fifth child. She suffered from the condition for three years. She was informed of treatment for fistula by a midwife. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Justine has recovered completely and is now proudly raising awareness of fistula and its dangers as well as how to prevent it amongst the community. Photo by: Carielle Doe http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/2019/8/27/meet-jakartas-mosquito-ladies monthly 0.5 2019-08-27 http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/dianas-story monthly 0.5 2019-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432185535-V7M2Y0HBABNA4Y2EMT8A/181220-Malawi-Bester-221-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Sandra Khawo (played Diana) and Shackira Mussah (played her frie ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432196906-VMYEYNICD5QBDGPMJ889/181220-Malawi-Bester-216-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432220560-2F13Z7VV28XB1NMWL9J8/181220-Malawi-Bester-199-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Sandra Khawo (played Diana) and Shackira Mussah (played her frie ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432299195-K0XH8UVHMFGUBURS1CTO/181220-Malawi-Bester-002-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Shackira Mussah who played Diana's friend ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432257248-D0X73Z2IOVR9TO3CKSXQ/181220-Malawi-Bester-158-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Sandra Khawo who played Diana ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432383073-YK6PY9H4DJO459WAHTR5/181220-Malawi-Bester-135-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Sandra Khawo who played Diana ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432460786-CMCJCI6N7HY67TG9PJ3D/181217-Malawi-Bester-002-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - University of Malawi. College of Medicine where Diana is current BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 17, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432733793-C8I6VH3SK9V8QSUUGA92/181217-Malawi-Bester-005-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - University of Malawi. College of Medicine where Diana is current BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 17, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432594240-6DF364TBJQ7UQS91DFCE/181219-Malawi-Bester-023-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Diana assisting with blood sample testing in one of the Laborato BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 19, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432453102-9KR9SV8CWRBSZOJWPS7P/181219-Malawi-Bester-132-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Diana assisting with blood sample testing in one of the Laborato BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 19, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432518622-JOCE5F2FEY0SAD0LMNY6/181218-Malawi-Bester-189-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 18, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551432566102-MWU9TP7TMPX8IFUVYD1Y/181218-Malawi-Bester-126-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Diana in one of the dorm rooms at St Mary's Girls Secondary Scho ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 18, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433356582-MOPWYW8GW3Q9VX3VMBQN/181219_OF-Malawi_BTS+3.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433598936-9PE5P92FFUQ1R5FOS38W/181218-Malawi-Bester-182-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Girls and Boys who participated in auditions to play the role of BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 18, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433595655-0T6Y7O49D9PNDTN7MISH/181220-Malawi-Bester-212-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433596943-NGLPNU3YFDQSLZDFC4M1/181220-Malawi-Bester-011-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433317569-O48ABK11X0KMJO0YMQFT/181220_OF-Malawi_BTS+4.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433598186-NJR367GUUVFPYH1NHEY7/181220-Malawi-Bester-010-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433593570-TH23N85RZ894YE2VU5AE/181220-Malawi-Bester-004-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433317873-3N0448R7CLZAF3C2NR89/181220_OF-Malawi_BTS+5.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1551433594029-OH5UBAO89V9WYMNL7NWO/181219-Malawi-Bester-073-web.jpg Stories - DIANA'S STORY http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/usaid-malawi-perform monthly 0.5 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290242728-74IAXGU40T40AF4IG39M/180516-malawi-wingard-0370-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Nebson Chiloko, Managing Director of Kawandama Hills Plantation KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290171636-2ATO6YWS3OTQPJ5O1ZM4/180515-malawi-wingard-0211-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Malawian farmer Daniel Mhoni, 68, with his grandson KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 15, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290184050-KCGW1Y8JDL026LI8GKGL/180515-malawi-wingard-0257-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Daniel Mhoni, 68, chairman of the Lucheche Cooperative grows Cor KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 15, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290221219-U43ZTZITBQ3JB7SULSQK/180516-malawi-wingard-0199-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Manward Chisambi, a worker at Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP) KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290218827-KTCE4OZ0MTQO7GOMN210/180516-malawi-wingard-0217-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Whiton Zimba, a worker at Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP) KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556292676190-JXVPVHQI09208NC9N8GW/180516-malawi-wingard-0110-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Raymond Nthala, a worker at Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP) KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290190436-3F8PG478YDHQPHVX11DU/180516-malawi-wingard-0007-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1556290233890-6HWO1TMDO1K5OCFM64UO/180516-malawi-wingard-0284-web.jpg Stories - NEBSON'S TREES - Nancy Chirwa helps to make charcoal from the Corymbia citriodora KANINGINA FOREST RESERVE, MALAWI - May 16, 2018: In 2016 the PERFORM Project, funded by USAID, awarded a grant to Kawandama Hills Plantation (KHP), a Malawian company. Through this grant, KHP expanded its plantation by 90 hectares, and the members of the Lucheche Cooperative (LC) planted another 30 hectares on private land. KHP and the LC harvest the planted Corymbia citriodora trees’ leaves, from which KHP distills export-quality citronellal, a fragrant lemon eucalyptus essential oil used in the natural insect repellent, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and perfume industries. Under this sustainable, environmentally-friendly business model, KHP and LC have improved 120 hectares of degraded land and KHP, with wood biomass from the trees, produces Malawi’s only legal and sustainably-sourced charcoal. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/laxmis-story monthly 0.5 2019-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630835084-T2MRY35ATCQZQJ6932WC/FullSizeRender+34.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630834249-IG31HAYBMA5A3MCWF5OY/FullSizeRender+33.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630837157-PTQ1T43TOBWULLGNUJCG/FullSizeRender+28.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630851355-43IWN6MQCSCX5G4PX1KZ/FullSizeRender+30.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630867496-U2FFLYDTJBXUVK9ZLG3O/FullSizeRender+31.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630877713-APSHNBOF8ZVZLV1OS3VA/FullSizeRender+32.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547630881871-PH9GTGU0UQHONAY497YQ/FullSizeRender+29.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547633528509-8MAS1SHS2R6ERZELBMVO/India-Draft-2-5.00_00_34_04.Still008.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547633330460-HLLJS3W6W64CZ5LWKKPU/180906-India-Bester-039.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY - Karin Sahu playing Laxmi doing washing in the scnene LUCKNOW, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 6, 2018: Behind the scenes from filming Laxmi Nishad's story a 26-year old woman who has managed to turn her life around through the power of education in Lucknow. 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Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547631352034-NV1NEZ9E138RG6NFZEC8/180907-India-Bester-019-web.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY - Some late arriving Prerna Girls going to classrooms LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2018: Prerna, which means “inspiration” in English, is an outgrowth of the Study Hall School. It is a formal all-girls school covering pre-school to twelfth grade. Prerna is run, as is the Study Hall School, by the private Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF). Prerna is an all-girls school by design; we wanted to reach girls who are deprived of an education because of a paucity of resources at home. We also wanted to have a clear and undiluted focus on girls and their needs. Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547631364985-XMBK9GFMD54FOVYRBJYH/180907-India-Bester-025-web.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY - Lower grade Prerna girls in class starting the day with song and LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 7, 2018: Prerna, which means “inspiration” in English, is an outgrowth of the Study Hall School. It is a formal all-girls school covering pre-school to twelfth grade. Prerna is run, as is the Study Hall School, by the private Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF). Prerna is an all-girls school by design; we wanted to reach girls who are deprived of an education because of a paucity of resources at home. We also wanted to have a clear and undiluted focus on girls and their needs. 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Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547633420698-3ZZY1HI3G46W3LAWHOM0/20180909-wingard-0065-web.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547633438871-SZWH1PXIV32RDAOKD5P7/20180909-wingard-0190-web.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547633808428-CL75J2840IGMJCLULEBG/20180909-wingard-0162-web.jpg Stories - LAXMI'S STORY http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/strength-in-unity monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1549456838989-PT5UVFF2G5Q70LG55YUH/180613-mongolia-hussain-0001-web.jpg Stories - STRENGTH IN UNITY - Myngad Soum School in Khovd Province in Western Mongolia KHOVD, MONGOLIA - JUNE 13, 2018: Myngad Soum School in Khovd Province in Western Mongolia. 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Footage by Morgana Wingard for OGP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1549456818410-1ROR01OMQ5UY1QU55H9A/180612-mongolia-wingard-0037-web.jpg Stories - STRENGTH IN UNITY KHOVD, MONGOLIA - JUNE 12, 2018: Ulaankhuu Chadraabal, head of the governor's office, in Myangad Soum. On the part of the Aimag Education Department Officials, Soum Governor, and School Directors, there is now recognition of the role and contribution that CSOs and community members can play in resolving problems in school. the Governor has totally changed her perception on solving problems in the school. Solving development concerns, according to her, is not just looking for and seeking funding provision but more importantly about the community solving their problems, about harnessing communication and local resources, networking with other potential local partners. “Solving our problems does not only mean looking for and receiving funding but more importantly about the community solving their problems," she says. Photo by Morgana Wingard for OGP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1549456900941-WV5BNP9JMMYBMBJ9OJJL/180614-mongolia-hussain-0049-web.jpg Stories - STRENGTH IN UNITY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1549456968324-UQ7WDTBBJ4ROEXITBM3M/180614-mongolia-wingard-0113-web.jpg Stories - STRENGTH IN UNITY KHOVD, MONGOLIA - JUNE 14, 2018: A meeting of local stakeholders led by Mr. Narandorj (Deputy Head of Education Agency) in Khovd. Together, they worked with the local community to improve the school services provided by the government to 10 schools. 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Beach village Committee are created through volunteers in community's by PACT. Nkudzi Bay Beach Village Committee is one of 210 community based organizations that PACT and Partners work with on the FISH project. Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547638157144-STD9NEEF2IIDIE0I7IGN/180524-malawi-bester-0157-web.jpg Stories - SAVING MALAWI'S FISH - Jacob Rajah and crew heading out for fishing from Masaka Bay MASAKA BAY, MALAWI - May 24, 2018: Through funding from USAID PACT Malawi started the Fisheries Intergration into Society and Habitats (FISH) project to empower local community's to manage and protect the fish populations of Lake Malawi. Beach village Committee are created through volunteers in community's by PACT. Nkhudzi Bay Beach Village Committee is one of 210 community based organizations that PACT and Partners work with on the FISH project. 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Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Fisherman that are targeted to get tested for HIV. Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547643475102-2HBNW0UPIZL2NNPLM1KX/180519-malawi-bester-0007-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Fisherman approaching the shores of lake Malawi after the nights NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 19, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Day on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Partners are Baylor, PACT(FISH), One community, CISER. Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547643495380-9QC9AJ6CVGWJEDZDXBU7/180519-malawi-bester-0045-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547642211286-ZO8KRI2L01Y1ZB4DXC5R/180518-malawi-wingard-0078-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Fishermen an Nkopola Beach NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 18, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Day on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Partners are Baylor, PACT(FISH), One community, CISER. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547642651470-34DT2X0NY637I5YUWWHE/180518-malawi-wingard-0106-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Setting up of tents used for Beach Wellness Day where healthcare NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 18, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Day on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Partners are Baylor, PACT(FISH), One community, CISER. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547643563241-1TOLADWO1J5GSGU9BIEI/180519-malawi-bester-0198-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Edess liwuma being tested for HIV NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 19, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Day on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Partners are Baylor, PACT(FISH), One community, CISER. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547643887958-SA9WIM0DHXP3C4BLYQQN/180522-malawi-bester-0012-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Gift Chati preparing to leave the Koche Community Hospital to fo NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 22, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Days on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Health facilities in the area help provide follow up services with community members and index members of those who were tested for HIV on Beach wellness Days. Gift Chati, who works for One Community, is one of the workers who reach out to people at their homes in remote areas. Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547644049888-2S3SKI2PIURR1EORJ462/180521-malawi-bester-0223-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - Linda Mvula updating patients records NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 21, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Days on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Local health facilities in the area like this one, Koche Community Hospital, help provide follow up services with community members and index memebers of those who were tested for HIV on Beach wellness Days . Photo by Jaco Bester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547644090612-W5MEXJZ2Q66NLC56OYX0/180518-malawi-wingard-0358-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV - A truck with speakers used in the community to anounce the Beach NKOPOLA, MALAWI - May 18, 2018: USAID funded implementors work together to create a Beach Wellness Day on the shores of Lake Malawi. Beach Wellness Day is a Integrated Health event targeted at fisherman in their place of work. Fishermen have a high risk for contracting HIV and reaching them for testing and treatment has been challenging in Malawi. Beach Wellness Days bring testing and treatment to fisherfolk when they arrive from fishing so it is convenient for them to get treatment. Partners are Baylor, PACT(FISH), One community, CISER. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547642182718-NKS6X73LBX4SCPNPEO4K/180518-malawi-bester-0059-web.jpg Stories - MALAWI'S FIGHT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/dreams-for-maggie monthly 0.5 2019-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131974241-7ZVWCBMJ4LHV0WPFVTJU/171114-Malawi-Grile-0142.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131935740-OCBPBP6A97F52LRRVFUD/171114-Malawi-Grile-0074.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131936966-1PYMPM0ZO24K1PKXYG4Z/171114-Malawi-Grile-0047.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131985508-OUZX6ZHHR5O677R28RZW/171114-Malawi-Grile-0162.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131953967-LWF04LVHNQBIQWPY6LYV/171114-Malawi-Grile-0099.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131974657-PHPSRK5O9OLJJ891J73K/171114-Malawi-Grile-0148.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131956427-13D5EA696Q4SUMGVZAXR/171114-Malawi-Grile-0129.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132004554-9YUPQ2M0HW3OAZJA4RC5/171114-Malawi-Grile-0282.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132002917-1ZXTUMV5CLTVKSZPZWBC/171114-Malawi-Grile-0274.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132009106-X8MUGX0V2WBSNT4QH01J/171115-Malawi-Estey-0067.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132022375-XV1O6S8SJZ97U2WECW1Q/171115-Malawi-Estey-0129.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132018889-94V2AU40CNKTVI97H3ZE/171115-Malawi-Estey-0106.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132027392-2WJ39ELJD8TV3Q2SO3TU/171115-Malawi-Estey-0147.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132009106-YX276TXZKC8ORM9QPI2H/171115-Malawi-Estey-0071.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132039167-MFMR7C4GSVCEEM8UUS22/171115-Malawi-Estey-0180.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. �After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn�t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.� Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.� Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132040190-VD4MDUJ9L49J4U9WWMTZ/171115-Malawi-Estey-0194.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. �After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn�t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.� Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.� Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132052672-OOOGCZ0EGXDI2S6KE2J6/171115-Malawi-Estey-0269.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. �After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn�t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.� Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.� Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132076944-8ZD8ILD7I9HYYDLJF45Q/171115-Malawi-Grile-0020.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. �After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn�t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.� Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.� Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1523711823556-4DX9PJIABFEM2G0LVRDV/171115-Malawi-Grile-0027.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132107983-7HTFDZONR1AI1MDS3T8D/171115-Malawi-Grile-0051.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. �After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn�t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.� Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.� Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132094874-3CFJSX2G0I1WEYPCAS3E/171115-Malawi-Grile-0045.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132052933-M52PSMVXAOTYZFQ8XJOW/171115-Malawi-Estey-0290.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 15, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131914646-CI0DYVHQJS1XBO70RFE2/171114-Malawi-Estey-0110.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512131920641-SN4P7LOFR39OFVCRCP0V/171114-Malawi-Estey-0113.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. She says, "I want to be a role model for my daughter to follow.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1512132870418-ZOGBH93T5KQVR9WZXMHW/171114-Malawi-Grile-0266.jpg Stories - DREAMS for Maggie NSANAMA, MACHINGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: Nov. 14, 2017 - The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) initiative is an ambitious $385 million partnership to reduce HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in HIV priority areas within 10 sub-Saharan African countries that account for nearly half of the new HIV infections that occur among AGYW globally in 2014. While the main goal of the DREAMS initiative is to keep AGYW AIDS-free, the benefits of core package go well beyond the disease. DREAMS upon the USAID decades of experience empowering young women and advancing gender equality across sectors of global health, education, and economic growth, USAID partners with community, faith-based, and non-governmental organizations whose credibility within communities and capacity to mobilize significant numbers of volunteers allow USAID to address the structural inequalities impacting girls vulnerability across multiple areas. Maggie Medison, 18, who lives in Malawi, dropped out of school in 2015 because she became pregnant. In 2015, Maggie was recruited into One Community's Go Girls! Club. She later applied to be a Community Resource Person (CRP) to supervise the club. She has now become an active peer educator, a choice that has changed the course of her life. Maggie works with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of remaining in school and protecting ones self against HIV. “After I fell pregnant and had my baby I thought that was the end of me. I didn’t think I could do anything else in my life. But after joining the DREAMS program, I went back to school. And now I know that I can achieve whatever I want in my life.” Maggie has both a bright outlook on her future and a realistic approach to life. 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Yarh Sieh—officer in charge at Kpallah Community Clinic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995136359-IJ98QY4NMEBGKQKZ6PTQ/170822-Liberia-Wingard-0212-web.jpg Stories - MHERO - Foday Obur Johnson BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: August 22, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995144756-OFD0AP597P6TMRC6FOKB/170822-Liberia-Wingard-0226-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: August 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse at Kpallah Community Clinic in Browerville—just outside of Monrovia, Liberia. She was a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. During that time there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now Wislyne receives text messages on her phone with vital information when there is a health emergency. She can also use her phone to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995154382-9OZBVORDEKVLPKV0B2C9/170822-Liberia-Wingard-0242-web.jpg Stories - MHERO - Dekontee Nugbatiah BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: August 22, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995238001-VUQIU6KQE1E7SE7DWDGH/170823-Liberia-Wingard-0216-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995240856-41Q9Q18KNOL4OAK7JABH/170824-Liberia-Wingard-0049-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 24, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508994940155-71IG9YBOSC7RS0G60R6Q/170821-Liberia-wingard-0004-web.jpg Stories - MHERO - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh at her home in Monrovia, Liberia BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA:August 21, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse at Kpallah Community Clinic in Browerville -- just outside of Monrovia, Liberia. She was a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. During that time there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now Wislyne receives text messages on her phone with vital information when there is a health emergency. She can also use her phone to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995203694-TUFE9G5609B7PIITZH81/170823-Liberia-Grile-0425-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995216439-74IP9330HRPO8BGU548Y/170823-Liberia-Grile-0474-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995164668-LNHJSTMX7ULO1RDQUAT8/170823-Liberia-Grile-0011-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995168109-PBRPOIBWUWXJBMUUCCO2/170823-Liberia-Grile-0080-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995174245-YFMLC0X8KJC8SF1ACNJ3/170823-Liberia-Grile-0115-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995177932-M0NKUWKJXOMNK7QRN0RI/170823-Liberia-Grile-0169-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995181212-DO7TPLR8YTP5QEYYILA7/170823-Liberia-Grile-0211-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995195484-M94VD00ATVBV0RB20L5J/170823-Liberia-Grile-0261-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995187353-SZGX2WW83QVASY6EHC24/170823-Liberia-Grile-0213-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995190836-GELWHEQZA9JAGOCEEVJ5/170823-Liberia-Grile-0230-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995198946-G0BRG99LAVVX2FWK0V6A/170823-Liberia-Grile-0314-web.jpg Stories - MHERO MONROVIA, LIBERIA: August 23, 2017 - During the Ebola outbreak that started in 2014 there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now healthcare workers receive text messages on their phones with vital information when there is a health emergency. They can also use their phones to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995094519-PQALWK2ROXXWGCIX87AG/170822-Liberia-Grile-0224-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995107842-AX4UE3ZGG1R9NMPAUQN0/170822-Liberia-Grile-0315-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508994993207-5PB6XA66LJW5DHGC3BAI/170822-Liberia-Grile-0008-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995008522-JDX826IEF8UUNS6BKXRO/170822-Liberia-Grile-0019-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508994968292-4GG4M4EYGCC0QLCFNK64/170821-Liberia-wingard-0035-web.jpg Stories - MHERO - Kpallah Community Clinic in Browerville BROWERVILLE, LIBERIA: August 21, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse at Kpallah Community Clinic in Browerville -- just outside of Monrovia, Liberia. She was a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. During that time there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now Wislyne receives text messages on her phone with vital information when there is a health emergency. She can also use her phone to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995015201-VOY1G4GBRVXPLCKGJBKB/170822-Liberia-Grile-0071-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995022621-WHT700KAGONHYW60W267/170822-Liberia-Grile-0080-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995029261-L5Q2RENFQNVTFPQ1JLES/170822-Liberia-Grile-0099-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995049172-Q00XGRE0EDWKBOLQAVP6/170822-Liberia-Grile-0171-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508994979081-MX48ZEUO5MYBCY30QZ9F/170821-Liberia-wingard-0043-web.jpg Stories - MHERO - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh -- officer in charge at Kpallah Community C BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: August 21, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse at Kpallah Community Clinic in Browerville -- just outside of Monrovia, Liberia. She was a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. During that time there was no centralized system for the Ministry of Health to communicate to all healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID teamed up to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communication system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Now Wislyne receives text messages on her phone with vital information when there is a health emergency. She can also use her phone to send important information like the status of supply stocks in the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995091721-3X4XLLXE1N7CAFQRXXC9/170822-Liberia-Grile-0281-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995086523-37TLC4K52YN2QVGUX3XR/170822-Liberia-Grile-0255-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995121251-5T052AYXOHMM67GAJMOB/170822-Liberia-Grile-0344-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508995035886-F23EFHFMDSQ57K1JG3XS/170822-Liberia-Grile-0162-web.jpg Stories - MHERO BREWERVILLE, LIBERIA: Aug. 22, 2017 - Wislyne S. Yarh Sieh is a registered nurse and Officer in Charge (OIC) at Kpallah Community Clinic in Brewerville. Wisylne worked as a healthcare worker during the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. Healthcare workers like Wislyne were left isolated and alone to fight this mysterious disease from the heart of the jungle. But, she, along with many others, continued to fight. "Being a nurse is like being a soldier. You cannot take your uniform off when there is battle. Then you are not a soldier. So I went on the frontline because I wanted to save lives," she remembers. The Ministry of Health did not have a centralized system to communicate vital information to healthcare workers across the country at the same time. UNICEF and USAID worked together to create a platform that utilized mobile phones to facilitate a two way communications system between healthcare workers and the centralized ministry. Because of this new technology, healthcare workers across the country can receive text messages with important information about health emergencies. They are also able to use their phones to inform the Ministry of Health about the status of stocks in the clinic. Since Ebola, Wislyne has started using the new platform and now feels more connected and informed. She says, "If this program just stopped without things being in place, it would carry our work backward. It would make my work longer and delay treatment of the patients." Photo by Sarah Grile. http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/land-rights-in-liberia monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508999394025-ZJ5S0Z7XY11T29WESAQU/Photo+Aug+30%2C+2+30+14+PM.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508999311665-5C1YI17Q3C6J5JRHGH0S/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0234-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508999322445-OFMF2JRFZMIEPVUJ1REN/Photo+Aug+29%2C+6+07+39+PM.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508999357160-JYPNPLWPLZYVETYU6G7R/Photo+Aug+29%2C+12+55+06+PM.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948227091-U3PHTDKCQB45R4C2929Q/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0196-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), teaches members of the Jogbahn Clan about land rights. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948259366-KUWOTF7CIP5I1DO59AQB/170830-Liberia-Wingard-screengrab-001.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS A woman from the the Jogbahn Clan participates in a workshop held by the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) on Wednesday, Aug. 30. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. SDI started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948236815-CHAXL1U94H9EB6405NTK/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0204-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Jogbahn Clan members gather for a meeting with James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI). The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana WingardThe Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948239189-3NN2JE88MU6OP91LYKW2/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0222-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948244596-VMRYQBYP673B3KAIZX2T/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0224-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948259043-TL59JSHPFELSIKXHF8AB/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0246-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), teaches members of the Jogbahn Clan about land rights. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948194328-VPZ7VZC3ZXKXHEWKNP8P/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0174-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Cheo Johnson, chief of the Jogbahn Clan, poses for a photo. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948202766-Z111FVL2LVTXXQO3K9K8/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0181-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), teaches members of the Jogbahn Clan about land rights. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948205995-D731N051QWDRZ4P6E5FX/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0185-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), teaches members of the Jogbahn Clan about land rights. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948218388-ORYN5RYXGFMJ2P30AV3X/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0186-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS James Otto, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), teaches members of the Jogbahn Clan about land rights. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948127552-OIPELCKNBPR9K4N3L4B6/170829-Liberia-Grile-0002-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Andrew G. Temeh, Deputy Minister of Administration at the Ministry of Information (MICAT) and the OGP Focal Person, works at his desk. Minister Temeh is working with OGP to create better transparency and accountability in the government. Liberia joined OGP in 2011. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948142209-WZI0H10AS0378GX25V03/170829-Liberia-Grile-0039-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Andrew G. Temeh, Deputy Minister of Administration at the Ministry of Information (MICAT) and the OGP Focal Person, works at his desk on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Minister Temeh is working with OGP to create better transparency and accountability in the government. Liberia joined OGP in 2011. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948142508-4CEQWEFIARLT613J1SV5/170829-Liberia-Grile-0065-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Andrew G. Temeh, Deputy Minister of Administration at the Ministry of Information (MICAT) and the OGP Focal Person, works at his desk on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Minister Temeh is working with OGP to create better transparency and accountability in the government. Liberia joined OGP in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948135804-E588BENVPYFYNUB1VU7O/170828-Liberia-Grile-0023-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Accountability Lab building located inside the iCampus in Monrovia, Liberia. iCampus is a shared working space for organizations who focus on technology, accountability and social change in Liberia. It is a focal point for open governance work. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948626947-MG0YFHH0I2BL94WLP1ML/170901-Liberia-Grile-0075-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Liberia Land Authority building located in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948627289-L26JRZASIVG5LSP2LXKJ/170907-Liberia-Grile-0005-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS A Liberia Land Authority billboard is seen here on Tubman Blvd. in Monrovia. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948660201-HH9D0F70LRG3Q6IEC98J/170831-Liberia-Grile-0051-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Civil Society Organization (CSO) Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia come together to discuss the language of the current draft of the Land Rights Act. The CSO working group has been working towards getting the bill passed since it was introduced in 2013. The Land Rights Act will make it so that there is a separation between private land, government land and community land. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948659654-D3KYF61P177QMHEUG0QJ/170831-Liberia-Grile-0228-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS The Civil Society Organization (CSO) Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia come together to discuss the language of the current draft of the Land Rights Act. The CSO working group has been working towards getting the bill passed since it was introduced in 2013. The Land Rights Act will make it so that there is a separation between private land, government land and community land. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948156041-HXY6BQ12VPJCLF7PZUV7/170830-Liberia-Grile-0114-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Sarah Banwon, right, the wife of Garmondah Banwon's, an elder in the Jogbahn Clan, prepares a meal in their kitchen in Blayah Town. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948149474-H55OHT8D075G9XE7SY5O/170830-Liberia-Grile-0244-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Garmondah Banwon, an elder in the Jogbahn Clan, stands in his kitchen in Blayah Town. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948169353-OTLC9EK4V4TUYV7XBHIZ/170830-Liberia-Grile-0317-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Sarah Banwon, right, the wife of Garmondah Banwon's, an elder in the Jogbahn Clan, prepares a meal in their kitchen in Blayah Town. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948166468-QF9SWF3TWLXO1WVRI8O6/170830-Liberia-Grile-0331-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Fruits from palm trees lie in front of Garmondah Banwon's kitchen in Blayah Town. Banwon is an elder in the the Jogbahn Clan. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Sarah Grile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948193093-BTV0VF516KO4XTQVRACB/170830-Liberia-Grile-0388-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS A woman eats fruit from a palm tree while in front of Garmondah Banwon's kitchen. Banwon is an elder in the Jogbahn Clan. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948182578-H8Y2OTZA5RDKVEPU2KUK/170830-Liberia-Grile-0356-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS Family of Garmondah Banwon, an elder in the Jogbahn Clan, beat cassava in front of the family's kitchen in Blayah Town. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1508948182581-YAQTJGHFUXBL03YR9M8L/170830-Liberia-Grile-0344-web.jpg Stories - LIBERIA LAND RIGHTS A woman walks down a road in Blayah Town, where the Jogbahn Clan reside. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. 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Photo by Josh Estey. http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/rebuilding-a-stronger-health-system monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269571103-MVGKGZABOVWXTXKTUKPH/170115-sierra-leone-grile-0574-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM The Konsho CHP (Community Health Post) serves about 3,000 people from 13 villages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269557344-IRHFCF4UWHIOY9SDW1G2/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0305-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Patients wait for their appointments at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269510279-VSUPCR3M9BRDYPAAQJLX/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0746-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, Maternal and Child Health Aide, poses for a photo at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269519089-6JF871E0NGMXW04H33IF/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0085-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, Maternal and Child Health Aide at Konsho CHP, holds a newborn baby inside the new maternity building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269514721-B2SNPFU2EVCK5OZL3504/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0249-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM A mother rests with her newborn baby shortly after giving birth and Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269538758-FZS38PNWV8WB1ZVVFJYQ/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0659-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Rachel Dumbuya, Maternal and Child Health Aide, poses for a photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269519779-DI67QK62TST7YYCAED4E/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0075-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Rachel Dumbuya, Maternal and Child Health Aide, works at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269582237-2I2A07UY3WFVD1H5KLC2/170115-sierra-leone-grile-0286-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM - Aminata Kalokoh, second from left, sits with her daughter, Marie Aminata Kalokoh, top right, of Makai Village, poses for a photo with her daughter, Saley, 5, clockwise from bottom right, her daughter, Marie, 2, and her husband, Kelfar Sesay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269524705-E2LIOIT2EG7NF0DO4IWH/170115-sierra-leone-grile-0108-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Aminata Kalokoh, of Makai Village, walks to her antenatal appointment at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269524057-NV08PP4DFKXXMTOZUR45/170115-sierra-leone-grile-0211-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Aminata Kalokoh, top right, of Makai Village, poses for a photo with her daughter, Saley, 5, clockwise from bottom right, her daughter, Marie, 2, and her husband, Kelfar Sesay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269527553-1NWOSQ2UD5P0GOYW6XQZ/170113-sierra-leone-grile-0038-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, center, Maternal and Child Health Aide, Konsho CHP, speaks with Aminata Kalokoh, left, during an antenatal appointment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269551892-A1ERJ7GFOOF6YX3QTRWQ/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0483-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM A visitor walks through Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269559108-KGQ9MXMC1NXCV98HFZ7Y/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0290-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Patients wait for their appointments at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269553602-PEXZ9QKMYMUG2VJN8T7T/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0391-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, Maternal and Child Health Aide at Konsho CH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269564515-5QDN2KVBHW7MT8JBGNPB/170116-sierra-leone-grile-0137-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, Maternal and Child Health Aide at Konsho CHP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493269506506-A7FTWPMXEC91AD95SU0Y/170120-sierra-leone-grile-0717-web.jpg Stories - REBUILDING A STRONGER HEALTH SYSTEM Zainab Tity Sawaneh, Maternal and Child Health Aide, right, examines a patient during the evening. 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Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496923309188-DDESZM7M353MNECBKKWL/170317-malawi-estey-040.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Phimbi Health Centre. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858970598-06NIG0HJXUSA2876ODZP/170314-malawi-estey-001.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496923303676-UDO2ZMVI83FOM56U8SBP/170314-malawi-estey-036.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858970068-TLKHS6AICGI2BYZH778V/170314-malawi-estey-002.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858972803-U7E3DR46HN9VBBT0AW04/170314-malawi-estey-011.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858973753-GTPVRFEI50WHA5D0NHL6/170314-malawi-estey-004.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858974830-B6AL3P70GG9N0DA8FMWH/170314-malawi-estey-044.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Women began to gather under the shade of a large tree in TA Nsamala, with baby’s on their backs. The program implemented by the government and supported by UNICEF is part of the “improvement of nutritional and health situation for children under 5, women, internally displaced persons and refugees.” Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858983447-CEU0C5MUCIMUYHC33ZFG/170315-malawi-estey-038.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo brings water back to her house. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858991779-QBASGQLTGQ1FGNHQNMY9/170315-malawi-estey-074.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo feeds plump nut to her daughter, Maness. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858994702-D0JVTQN6CWUBTI5FY6RO/170315-malawi-estey-079.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo feeds plump nut to her daughter, Maness. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858985199-H0YROBDC3JFH6JLJJ1PV/170315-malawi-estey-043.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858986166-N76E1DYZH4SCMKEIPXLF/170315-malawi-estey-046.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo and her daughter, Maness. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858988099-YPTD9FTD7ARR7KHCVHUO/170315-malawi-estey-054.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo prepares food. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858987983-FR0I7JOT707LR1E6PXPU/170315-malawi-estey-053.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI A woman prepares food near Mariam Chinguwo's house. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858987114-VCLZSRD4W08Z8J6ZT1QB/170315-malawi-estey-048.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Hastings Sandikonda and Mariam Chinguwo with Maness and their baby boy. Photo by Josh Estey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1496858990291-1SDWSO00P89MKDR50EJ3/170315-malawi-estey-061.jpg Stories - FIGHTING MALNUTRITION IN MALAWI Mariam Chinguwo and her daughter, Maness. Photo by Josh Estey. http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/interactive-inspiration-for-change monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/coons-learning-tour monthly 0.5 2019-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493849397908-P6F5ZQ1YDRU6M9KFFEQF/5D4_4014-web.jpg Stories - NOW MORE THAN EVER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493849401536-9YXNR6TNWVRO7EOCZ8RN/5D4_4093-web.jpg Stories - NOW MORE THAN EVER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493849631780-SF005X78P5Y08835PG1V/5K3A2081-web.jpg Stories - NOW MORE THAN EVER https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1493850438574-LH6705CXM2LDXRA2UJY0/170417-India-Wingard-0056-web.jpg Stories - NOW MORE THAN EVER PATNA, BIHAR, INDIA: April 17, 2017 - Bihar is one of India’s largest and poorest states with over 100 million people. Poor nutrition and poor health, particularly for women and children, lead to early deaths and generational cycles of lost potential. The state has one of the country’s highest rates of maternal, neonatal and infant mortality. Underlying factors that contribute to these negative health outcomes primarily include extreme poverty, gender and social inequality among many others. Recognizing these persistent gaps, the Integrated Family Health Initiative (IFHI) project was launched in 2011 to address these disparities with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. IFHI’s objective is to support the Government of Bihar in increasing the universal coverage and quality of life‐saving interventions and improve the health and survival of women, newborns and children during the first 1,000 days ‐ from conception to the child’s second birthday. To reach this objective, IFHI implements a set of core, proven interventions, spanning the family health continuum of services, including maternal and newborn health, nutrition, immunization and family planning. 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Her hope is to become a nurse after finishing school. http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/jordan-bera-video monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/sajedas-blooming-business monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886033179-1LUCLSOL6EVQ3EJTBUM0/160515-bangladesh-wingard-0005.JPG Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886016774-Q9NY9063XSGE5DWJZ6C0/2016-05-18-1077.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886015188-WB2CNYH06AI5BCNEYZYT/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0778-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886009463-ZCESHSPH02QFT6Z11J9W/160516-bangladesh-wingard-0040-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886021825-46ZKCP540T5UIOSSRZG7/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0836-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886018335-V49ST4GJA7F3M5V4UCMB/2016-05-18-1087.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476886014021-L4OAP1737QY880PKBD92/edit+R0015965.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916812192-I7HBSN8B4L41FWRCATND/160515-bangladesh-wingard-0018-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Now, Sajeda, 34, is a super star in the growing flower industry in Bangladesh. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917060981-CUNG7DX63IBGTGXCG9C9/160516-bangladesh-estey-0169.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS When Sajeda first started flower farming she struggled to find buyers. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917024626-UPJML11C17BB6VI9I13M/160516-bangladesh-estey-0156.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Some days Sajeda would sit by the road and wait hoping a buyer would drive by. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916964120-PES9JNNBWZZIV6TIHP78/160516-bangladesh-estey-0137.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465916913046-THUZQDVLI8KF3A1EB08J/160516-bangladesh-estey-0107.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Sajeda learned how to use fertilizer to increase her yields. She pounds seeds, mixes them with water and then sprinkles it on her flower beds. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465917130900-GVAACJDL4NM1GDMNNKIF/160516-bangladesh-estey-0205.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS - With her increased income from flower sales, Sajeda has made imp HARIA, BANGLADESH: May 16, 2016 - Sajeda, 34, is a super star in the growing flower industry in Bangladesh. Last year a Bangladeshi cellphone company featured her in one of their ad campaigns. Before that her face adorned a larger than life poster at a flower convention in the capital city, Dhaka. Sajeda never planned to be a flower farmer. She used to help her husband, MD. Imamul Hossain, 50, in their field in southern Bangladesh but when he fell out of a tree and broke his back ten years ago she had to take over the business to support the family including their two children—Moynul Islam Joy, 10, and Tania Yasmin, 17. She struggled to grow quality and quantity flowers at first. But, what was worse was she struggled to find buyers. She didn’t have a phone or buyers numbers so she had no way to contact them. Some days she would pick her Gerbera flowers, lay them in her basket woven of reeds/palm fronds, and wait by the roadside hoping a buyer would drive by. She didn’t know how else to find them. After hearing about a training from DAI/USAID, she learned methods to increase production (including pruning techniques and planting north to south), improve the quality of her flowers, how to package them, and how to store them. The result: she doubled her production and income. She then shared her newfound knowledge with neighboring farmers. Something else changed her life drastically: a cellphone. It changed everything actually. Now she can call the buyers and they come directly to her house and pick up the flowers after they've been cut/harvested and packaged. After packaging her flowers in rectangular baskets woven out of palm fronds, Sajeda's workers carry the baskets loaded with yellow, pink, red and white gerbera flowers to the roadside where they are loaded on to a buyer's bicycle driven cart. He rides to Godkhala Market nearby where they are loaded with other farmers into vans and transported to the capital city, Dhaka to be sold and sold and d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920507700-FJVIPGXL4X6B5RBAV6V5/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0298-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS After receiving training funded by USAID, Sajeda, a flower farmer in southern Bangladesh, doubled her production and income. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920920189-BJRN57YYCA1KEEPGOEUN/160517-bangladesh-wingard-0528-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Sajeda packages her flowers with plastic to help protect them before selling them. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920432307-0JS4MOV0AZPGSXELYZN0/160517-bangladesh-estey-0058-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Through training, Sajeda learned how to better package her flowers and connect to buyers. Her husband, Imamul Hossain, helps her package flowers before they are taken to the market. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920461788-4IHZ15DHVTSWZ6Z9XG9J/160517-bangladesh-estey-0218-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS One of the things Sajeda learned in the training was how to better package her flowers before selling to buyers to preserve them during the transport process. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920447669-731HDVI9J5V39RPSSX7Z/160517-bangladesh-estey-0190-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS One of the things Sajeda learned in the training was how to better package her flowers before selling to buyers to preserve them during the transport process. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920471906-SUJEIEB2D37L13E94YZE/160517-bangladesh-estey-0248-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Sajeda's flowers are transported from her farm via woven baskets to a local flower buyer's cart who then takes them to the local market. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920439693-2BLS1IK8P3OMDCP45J5W/160517-bangladesh-estey-0136-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Godkhala Market, Sajeda's flowers first stop. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465920929190-CSCEZLKH09U8XTHVLLBX/160518-bangladesh-estey-0015-web.jpg Stories - SAJEDA'S BLOOMING BUSINESS Flowers grown across Bangladesh arrive at the Agargaon Flower Wholesale Market in Dhaka where wholesale buyers purchase them and resell them to boutiques and flower stands throughout the city. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/educating-tommorows-mothers monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1478269732469-97KOMGT4FWBOMOO7VAWA/161026-bangladesh-wingard-0078-web.jpg Stories - EDUCATING TOMORROW'S MOTHERS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1478266568146-FY0VDXJP1K8VOHOUA7PQ/161025-bangladesh-wingard-0035-web.jpg Stories - EDUCATING TOMORROW'S MOTHERS COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: October 25, 2016 - Joynur Jahan Joba, 10, reads the Koran in the morning before going to school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1478266606415-XPXJ2L70Q81D94ZCJLXI/161025-bangladesh-wingard-0001-web.jpg Stories - EDUCATING TOMORROW'S MOTHERS COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: October 25, 2016 - Joynur's mother, Shahena Akter, 24, lights the fire in the morning to make breakfast and tea for the family. 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By ensuring a strong foundation at the beginning of school, the expectation is that fewer children will repeat grades or drop out in the primary cycle. A higher proportion will hopefully complete school with solid primary school skills–such as literacy–which are critical life skills in today’s world. 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READ is a 4-year collaboration with Save the Children International to improve early grade reading competence. Learning to read affects all aspects of children’s education. By ensuring a strong foundation at the beginning of school, the expectation is that fewer children will repeat grades or drop out in the primary cycle. A higher proportion will hopefully complete school with solid primary school skills–such as literacy–which are critical life skills in today’s world. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1478270255675-6EJMQ689TMXVQON4F5HL/161025-bangladesh-wingard-1252-web.jpg Stories - EDUCATING TOMORROW'S MOTHERS COX'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: October 25, 2016 - The READ project initiated Community Reading Camps (CRCs) outside of school hours to increase opportunities for children to read. 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The physical space of the classroom does not allow for participation or interaction other than the teacher-centric approach. Where class sizes are large, there is no room to change the classroom lay-out. Despite a primary curriculum that focuses on competencies, factors such as these constrain children from gaining strong foundational skills in reading. The environment of the camp is ‘print rich’, meaning that it is festive and decorated with materials that reinforce reading skills. Activities such as reading to children, storytelling, and games such as ‘hangman’ are part of the weekly routine. The weekly camps are facilitated by a local Community Literacy Volunteer (CLV) who is trained on early grade literacy activities. There are two Camps per school ‘catchment’ to ensure that children who live further from school do not miss out. 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They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. All her efforts helped to increase her income. She spent her extra income on her family and she invested more in her fish nursery. 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They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds to sell for local consumption. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. The new techniques have helped to increase their income. They spent their extra income on their family and invested more in their fish nursery. 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They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. All her efforts helped to increase her income. She spent her extra income on her family and she invested more in her fish nursery. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476185193801-0RTNH4JM6E17EIB6A3CZ/160514-bangladesh-wingard-0530-web.jpg Stories - FISHING FOR FORTUNE BALOVADROPUR, BANGLADESH: May 14, 2016 - Ruma Begum, her husband and their son live in Balovadrapur village of Morelgonj Upazilla of Bagerhat District in Southern Bangladesh. They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds to sell for local consumption. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. The new techniques have helped to increase their income. They spent their extra income on their family and invested more in their fish nursery. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476185181617-ZG93ZH8KM7MHHIXAH1EI/160514-bangladesh-estey-0272-web.jpg Stories - FISHING FOR FORTUNE BALOVADROPUR, BANGLADESH: May 14, 2016 - Ruma Begum, her husband and their son live in Balovadrapur village of Morelgonj Upozilla of Bagerhat District. They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. All her efforts helped to increase her income. She spent her extra income on her family and she invested more in her fish nursery. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476185187209-3QHOP29J6EZW0G1RQYTY/160514-bangladesh-estey-0469-web.jpg Stories - FISHING FOR FORTUNE BALOVADROPUR, BANGLADESH: May 14, 2016 - Ruma Begum, her husband and their son live in Balovadrapur village of Morelgonj Upozilla of Bagerhat District. They own 20 decimals of land (.2 acres) where they raise fish in 3 ponds. During 2013 Ruma became a beneficiary of the USAID-AIN (World Fish) Project and received 8 training sessions on carp and prawn culture with dike cropping. She also received 4 sessions of refresher training in 2014. She is now producing more fish and vegetables following improved knowledge and technology received from AIN. All her efforts helped to increase her income. She spent her extra income on her family and she invested more in her fish nursery. Photo by Josh Estey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476185163275-YHDAPU4PPZHN7X864E6U/160514-bangladesh-drone-0001.MOV.00_04_10_02.Still005+copy.jpg Stories - FISHING FOR FORTUNE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1476185176183-GGMNEVAD1BILZCUO4AZ9/2016-05-12-1061.jpg Stories - FISHING FOR FORTUNE http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/twice-the-rice monthly 0.5 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548495351-PSR5JK5RG4ATGQH9K865/160510-bangladesh-estey-0233-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Tarani Kanto Shikari, 45, and his wife, Baby Shikari, wake up before dawn every morning to tend to their rice patties, cows, ducks, and vegetable garden in southern Bangladesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548517887-UCTROB95C17YED3YHB0P/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0620-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni and his wife start each day tending to their cows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548512170-UAZNMD5EY6XD2P7TFLZE/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0344-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni and his wife harvest fish from a nearby pond to prepare for breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548503508-XOIUCIX6YOSIRHDX1JV1/160510-bangladesh-estey-0567-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE The hardest time in Taroni's life was after his father passed away. "It was darkness all around. There was no one to help me," he remembers.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548526098-M6JD4WJWVV3J03MG041T/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0857-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni's vegetable seeds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548524123-T2AC7WU1PMYKEFW1TIMN/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0839-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Guti fertilizer helps Taroni double his rice and vegetable yields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548512781-OSYVMHYMQGC5Y0YSBB3S/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0427-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Through training funded by USAID, Taroni and his wife learned how to plant seedlings in a row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548528386-3DIOZI56M371I5C4H0UB/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0861-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Through training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to use fertilizer to increase his crop yields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548497668-MJLYZ9GNF09CPWJ1ALGI/160510-bangladesh-estey-0330-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE During harvest season, Taroni and his wife soak the rice they have harvested in the pond near their house. before boiling it and then laying it out to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465552571495-7YJBK3QMXRH1AUCPPVAO/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0144-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE During harvest season, Taroni and his wife soak their rice in the pond before boiling it and then laying it out to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548524669-X201C2RXWX2R1QGJ911B/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0805-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni spreads his rice harvest out on the ground to dry after soaking it in a pond and boiling it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548500580-TL75ZZLTD5OWVBQCA24O/160510-bangladesh-estey-0403-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni's wife, Baby Shakiri, spreads their rice harvest on the ground to dry after soaking it in a pond and boiling it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548520664-4I9J7UZL6V49LC3CJ5L5/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0779-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Baby Shikari, Taroni's wife, spreads their rice harvest out on the ground to dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548506973-A180ML5Y202R63TK0WQM/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0200-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE From an agriculture training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to increase the yields of his vegetable garden by planting in rows and using Guti fertilizer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548509232-SO4ELSVR5DQV791MQGJJ/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0263-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE From an agriculture training funded by USAID, Taroni learned how to increase the yields of his vegetable garden by planting in rows and using Guti fertilizer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553094001-NR4WUXRWNMGAA3CU1KFT/160511-bangladesh-estey-0108-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni harvesting rice -- after receiving training funded by USAID, he now produces twice as much rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553093251-KTMPZJIWTH23WHJ8AVPV/160511-bangladesh-estey-0131-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE USAID programs in Bangladesh have helped 1.97 million farmers increase their production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553097725-TW8ITAKH8BSX9B0IIEXY/160511-bangladesh-estey-0167-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE BARISAL, BANGLADESH: May 11, 2016 - Taroni Kanta, 45, is a small farmer owning 3.65 acres of land. He lives with his wife, Menoka Rani Shikari, his mother, one son who reads in class 7 and one daughter who has passed SSC and now doing diploma in nursing. He has a brother who works in Dhaka. He completed his study up to grade 7. He could not continue due to the economic condition of his family. Taroni had to take responsibility for the family expenses. He started rice farming at a very young age. He married to Menoka Rani, 34. They have 1 son and 1 daughter. At one stage he went to abroad to earn higher income and borrowed 200,000 Taka from his fellow farmers. But, he could not succeed in getting a good job abroad and returned back home to restart his rice farming. They used to live in a kutcha tin shed house. He used to cultivate only Boro rice in his 3.65 acres of land. He did not follow any good rice farming practices such as line sowing, using integrated pest management (IPM) methods, good quality seed and balanced doses of fertilizers etc. He met the Feed the Future Accelerating agriculture Productivity Improvement (AAPI) Activity staff and the field official of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and got to know about good agricultural practices including use of urea deep placement (UDP) technology. He first received training from USAID AAPI Activity in 2010 and later also attended a motivational field visit. After receiving training he began using UDP technology and other improved practices in rice farming and vegetable crops for last 5 years. On an average he received an incremental production of about 0.4 metric tons (882 pounds) of Boro rice every year. His income increased every year due to improved productivity of rice crop and also other vegetable crops as he applied improved rice farm management practices. He used the additional income to repay what was left of his loan (Tk. 150,000 already paid back), building another room in his house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553099593-VT9ZCKX2VA69A3TRTF57/160511-bangladesh-estey-0183-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni taught everything he learned in the USAID funded trainings to his family. Now they work together in the field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553111006-B96UPYRRDGHB23SEHCRN/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0178-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE After harvesting rice, farmers mill the rice with a machine to seperate the kernals from the shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548504745-TTS1ZR425FLTB4FWKEDR/160510-bangladesh-estey-0563-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni sells his rice to local buyers who come to his house with a scale and fill up bags with his rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548500534-2FPB8GUKCWASATCC5236/160510-bangladesh-estey-0540-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE With his increased income, Taroni is able to send his daughter, Trishna, to paramedic school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465548516648-MXFGR01JK0ACK6JTQQ5S/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0520-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Taroni's wife, Baby Shikari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553104572-9TPFWGM7W8QX6C20DKIE/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0079-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Bangladeshi farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari (45) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553105092-S43ROVKUMO2UCLUS4VLV/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0115-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Bangladeshi rice farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari (45), and his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1465553108774-L7H1RABYNF4N1B6B3XFK/160511-bangladesh-wingard-0123-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE Bangladeshi rice farmer, Tarani Kanto Shikari's son, Taposh (class 7). With his extra income from increased yields, Taroni bought Taposh a bike to ride to school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1475739913476-30XO1WETPC7W0KUYUP05/160510-bangladesh-estey-0483-web.jpg Stories - TWICE THE RICE UTTAR BORO MAGRA, BAKAL, AGAILIHARA, BARISAL, BANGLADESH: May 10, 2016 - Taroni Kanta Shikari (means “hunter” in Bangla), 45, is a small farmer owning 3.65 acres of land. He lives with his wife, Baby, his mother, one son (Taposh) who reads in class 7 and one daughter Trishna (means “thirst” in Bangla) who is in paramedic school. He has a brother who works in Dhaka. He completed his study up to grade 7. He could not continue due to the economic condition of his family. Taroni had to take responsibility for the family expenses. He started rice farming at a very young age. He married to Baby. They have 1 son and 1 daughter. At one stage he went to abroad to earn higher income and borrowed 200,000 Taka from his fellow farmers. But, he could not succeed in getting a good job abroad and returned back home to restart his rice farming. They used to live in a kutcha tin shed house. He used to cultivate only Boro rice in his 3.65 acres of land. He did not follow any good rice farming practices such as line sowing, using integrated pest management (IPM) methods, good quality seed and balanced doses of fertilizers etc. He met the Feed the Future Accelerating agriculture Productivity Improvement (AAPI) Activity staff and the field official of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and got to know about good agricultural practices including use of urea deep placement (UDP) technology. He first received training from USAID AAPI Activity in 2010 and later also attended a motivational field visit. After receiving training he began using UDP technology and other improved practices in rice farming and vegetable crops for last 5 years. On an average he received an incremental production of about 0.4 metric tons (882 pounds) of Boro rice every year. His income increased every year due to improved productivity of rice crop and also other vegetable crops as he applied improved rice farm management practices. He used the additional income to repay what was left of his https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1475739923280-BOBDPXY3HWJK20O4TJC3/160510-bangladesh-wingard-0656.JPG Stories - TWICE THE RICE UTTAR BORO MAGRA, BAKAL, AGAILIHARA, BARISAL, BANGLADESH: May 10, 2016 - Taroni Kanta, 45, is a small farmer owning 3.65 acres of land. He lives with his wife, Menoka Rani Shikari, his mother, one son who reads in class 7 and one daughter who has passed SSC and now doing diploma in nursing. He has a brother who works in Dhaka. He completed his study up to grade 7. He could not continue due to the economic condition of his family. Taroni had to take responsibility for the family expenses. He started rice farming at a very young age. He married to Menoka Rani, 34. They have 1 son and 1 daughter. At one stage he went to abroad to earn higher income and borrowed 200,000 Taka from his fellow farmers. But, he could not succeed in getting a good job abroad and returned back home to restart his rice farming. They used to live in a kutcha tin shed house. He used to cultivate only Boro rice in his 3.65 acres of land. He did not follow any good rice farming practices such as line sowing, using integrated pest management (IPM) methods, good quality seed and balanced doses of fertilizers etc. He met the Feed the Future Accelerating agriculture Productivity Improvement (AAPI) Activity staff and the field official of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and got to know about good agricultural practices including use of urea deep placement (UDP) technology. He first received training from USAID AAPI Activity in 2010 and later also attended a motivational field visit. After receiving training he began using UDP technology and other improved practices in rice farming and vegetable crops for last 5 years. On an average he received an incremental production of about 0.4 metric tons (882 pounds) of Boro rice every year. His income increased every year due to improved productivity of rice crop and also other vegetable crops as he applied improved rice farm management practices. He used the additional income to repay what was left of his loan (Tk. 150,000 already paid back), building another room in his house and refilling some low lands of his homestead with sands. His daughter is studying in a nursing school and his son is a student of grade 7. 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Survivors are provided with 72 hour post-rape services, confidential medical care, post-exposure prophylaxis, antibiotics, and emergency contraceptive as part of the USAID Care, Access, Safety and Empowerment (CASE) program. Photo by Morgana Wingard http://www.namuhmedia.com/stories/milk-for-life monthly 0.5 2016-08-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/56c869f4b6aa60809aaa857a/56c86a22b6aa60809aaa85fa/1455974946427/ Stories - MILK FOR LIFE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078547073-YWPY9TDPOA7O0VZRVBRA/150208-ethiopia-wingard-0545-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Kenanisa Wako drinking milk GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470079917141-84SX0AP2J10KL1HJKLLG/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1160-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078553595-NGU13BHFV6RECYO5BZXN/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1199-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078553960-J0WP1SY03WPOZ1VVFL6F/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1190-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha sells milk from her cows to milk collection cen GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078559558-5WEPNDEM4AW94928KNQM/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1333-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078561627-VONJYQMNC0ZAKB3Y9QHK/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1334-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078564928-KJ8MGBADO5KWBQKWJES2/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1380-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470078564995-X3N7ZV4IC509PZMJ1UDN/150208-ethiopia-wingard-1383-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha purchasing household items for her family from GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 8, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. She collects milk from small pastoralist households in her community and sells it to a milk collection center in the nearest town -- Negele. The USAID-PRIME supported milk collection center provides a reliable, regular market so can always sell all of her milk. Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. 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Before, she waited on the side of the road or walked through town hoping to sell the milk which often went bad by the end of the day if she didn't sell it. Through the market linkage she has significantly increased her income. With the additional funds she was able to buy a sheep. She can also feed her children better and buy them clothes. With a higher income she's able to save during the rainy season so she is more resilient during the drought season. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1470079925521-FKXBMURFPSNAKJDWQZIJ/150209-ethiopia-wingard-0232-web.JPG Stories - MILK FOR LIFE - Dhaki Faranjicha GURADHERA, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 9, 2014: Dhaki Faranjicha is building her household's resilience to drought and market shock by diversifying her family income through milk sales in addition to pastoralism. 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The physical space of the classroom does not allow for participation or interaction other than the teacher-centric approach. Where class sizes are large, there is no room to change the classroom lay-out. Despite a primary curriculum that focuses on competencies, factors such as these constrain children from gaining strong foundational skills in reading. The environment of the camp is ‘print rich’, meaning that it is festive and decorated with materials that reinforce reading skills. Activities such as reading to children, storytelling, and games such as ‘hangman’ are part of the weekly routine. The weekly camps are facilitated by a local Community Literacy Volunteer (CLV) who is trained on early grade literacy activities. There are two Camps per school ‘catchment’ to ensure that children who live further from school do not miss out. 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The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505908807555-KRDL20AOYAPIJZKVBXG5/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0181-web.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505886757717-36Z2J971S64MWP2JPLOZ/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0127.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - James Otto, center, of Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), holds a workshop for the Jogbahn Clan in Blayah Town on Wednesday, Aug. 30. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. 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SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505908537215-8RIMN6QICY3TZ7YAWAO0/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0246-web.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. 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SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505908517132-VDK12PF97ALT9GENOB2N/170830-Liberia-Wingard-0222-web.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. 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The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505886785363-TSZ4QDQJ244TKS1UAWLH/170830-Liberia-Grile-0331.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - Fruits from palm trees lie in front of Garmondah Banwon's kitchen in Blayah Town. Banwon is an elder in the the Jogbahn Clan. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) started to help the community by submitting a formal complaint to the to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). SDI taught the clan about land rights and resisting with non-violence. THE RSPO determined that the land EPO was using belonged to the clan. SGI trained the community how to map their land and boundaries were created that EPO accepted not to cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1505886799202-JMKNU1Y495K6PEPW7TD3/170830-Liberia-Grile-0114.jpg Land Rights in Liberia BLAYAH TOWN, LIBERIA: Aug. 30, 2017 - Sarah Banwon, right, the wife of Garmondah Banwon's, an elder in the Jogbahn Clan, prepares a meal in their kitchen in Blayah Town. The Jogbahn Clan fought against the British-owned company Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) when they tried to take over their land in 2013. The people in the community depend on the land for their livelihoods. 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It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586053332-KAZLCA9VJHKNLLNORG0X/180830-zambia-grile-0590.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 30, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586060808-IDK22U7TS8YE9MSPJM9H/180830-zambia-grile-0584.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 30, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586061828-Q5QKHCW5E18Q40OABC68/180830-zambia-grile-0558.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 30, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586069029-CMR6CVFI6H4KNGPA1OLG/180830-zambia-grile-0501.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 30, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586083181-OWFBZ9O4SPDWHKOEXQQM/180830-zambia-grile-0251.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 30, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586097906-BOAOM5BLG7IK51R7Q3HA/180829-zambia-grile-1168.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586884044-Z5GR0X54IOGCVTN9OLE5/180829-zambia-grile-0327.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586891776-0FSG0I0DTRHG86W5HRS0/180829-zambia-grile-0371.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586897978-Z3FGQH7SWM7FDAU0W8B3/180829-zambia-grile-0387.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586901310-3L9299UUXIXSM1NWP5C8/180829-zambia-grile-0427.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586912267-A7C6KZ83ZMXCI62V04GW/180829-zambia-grile-0662.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586917265-2YRRS25KUGKVOD4IC2O9/180829-zambia-grile-0673.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586927780-9OSDGEHET5ZT0OBFD91U/180829-zambia-grile-0715.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586933216-DCYHMRLC2UTI3DB5EHW0/180829-zambia-grile-0955.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586939037-9PINFTDGNBFH41VYZD1Q/180829-zambia-grile-1020.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586942468-08XGQCJHBU7TAUBGL5JF/180829-zambia-grile-1051.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586955591-GFA3F6P0F85ISWQUHTBE/180829-zambia-grile-1076.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1539586959700-TZZECBMID2QXFP4SUGHI/180829-zambia-grile-1148.jpg UNICEF Zambia MDGi Film KAFUE, ZAMBIA: Aug. 29, 2018 - Kafue Mission Health centre is in the Kafue district of Lusaka Province and the facility is within 15km distance from the District Health Office. It has a catchment population of 9,651 with one catchment area divided into nine zones. The health centre has had support from the European Union Millennium Development Goal initiative (MDGi) programme since 2015 to date. Prior to MDGi interventions, Kafue Mission had improvised small rooms with two beds for delivery and two beds used interchangeably for postnatal and antenatal clients. There was no proper sluice room but a kitchen sink used for sluicing and hand washing. With European Union funding, the newly constructed standalone maternity wing has a 4 bed capacity antenatal ward, a 5 bed capacity labour ward and a 7 bed capacity postnatal ward. This has enabled the facility to offer quality care with standards upheld as the environment is supportive of quality service provision. Postnatal women are now being monitored up to 48 hours post-delivery in line with the guidelines but primarily this is possible because of availability of an adequate post-natal ward space that previously was not available. Through the MDGI intervention, WASH related infrastructure such as chlorine production facility, toilet renovations, drinking and hand washing points, incinerator and placenta pit have all been provided. These were non-existent prior to the MDGi support. Health care workers and Community Based Volunteers have been trained to share information regarding safe practices before and after childbirth. These include educating expectant mothers of the importance of antenatal checkups, delivering at the centre as opposed to the mother's home and teaching healthy food choices for children. The Community Based Volunteers also conduct post-natal care visits after the new mother has returned home. The facility has been furnished with equipment to contribute towards the accelerated reduction o http://www.namuhmedia.com/of-kenya daily 0.75 2023-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544771993132-ALN7ZNH1UIB4JHEVXY70/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0186-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Yvonne Mukami (12) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544771993780-Y65KQTOLKNW1HOAFS1KX/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0210-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Edna Kathambi (15) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772000085-HN3HQW6F75TVJR2L05M0/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0253-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Jackline Gatwiri (15) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772000336-4SOJA1GG12VEEYOP5MU5/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0300-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Scholastica Kumunda MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772006917-2JN4C99176PMGTAHD39H/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0329-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Purity Karembo (15) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772007572-8HMQJWMZMJ4IR4AHBMAN/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0368-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Deborah Kananu (14) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772010175-GJ8IYLXF98NOTLHYHJHO/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0407-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Josephine Kendi (14) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772369022-RUO03BZSLWJ0AJBERVZM/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0060-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Morreen Kathomi (13) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544772619424-FY8A3GBCYBJLTH51SQXX/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0106-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Elosy Gatwiri (14) MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544773054243-HHO3CLTKJ57NSGAF94C4/20181209-Kenya-Wingard-0007-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Irene Kageni Mutiiria, 17 GATUNGA, KENYA: December 9, 2018 – Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544773056427-94E9T5IN490YTGDO5VBN/20181209-Kenya-Wingard-0035-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Rebecca Gatiiria Mutiiria (41) GATUNGA, KENYA: December 9, 2018 – Rebecca is the mother of six daughters. She enjoyed school when she was young, but she had to drop out at 12 years old. Herr parents did not value girls’ education and believed it was time for her to help out more at home. 12 years old is also the time around which girls will undergo genital cutting. Once she went through the process, she was considered a woman, ready to get married and start a family. As her first daughter, Purity Gatwiri, reached the age of 12, she went through the Alternative Rite of Passage program. She did not want to be cut and Rebecca supported her decision since she knew from experience the harms it causes. Purity Gatwiri eldest daughter is now studying land survey at Pwani University in Mombasa. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544773309154-13AFEJT5UCZEPWJON8DW/20181210-Kenya-Wingard-0076-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Mutiria Purity Gatwirri, 22, at the Pwani University library MOMBASA, KENYA: December 10, 2018 – Mutiria Purity Gatwirri, 22, at the Pwani University library. Purity's mother, Rebecca, enrolled Purity in an Alternative Rite of Passage ceremony when she was a teenager that encourrages girls to stay in school. Thanks to her mother's choice, Purity's life is vastly different from her mother's. Now, she is studying land survey at Pwani University. When she graduates she hopes to be a land surveyor so she can help protect peoples land -- especially women. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775722404-ODK2J1LJ3EOGQGTFWP5N/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0455-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544778609410-X71679RINVGFAAYXR1DG/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0686-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544778658388-6HB72JP9CLBKBK3FLI6U/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0708-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775719149-DVIUG9PA07SPLS38498H/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0465-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775726783-R6XDAI726N26KUZL0ZOW/20181206-Kenya-Wingard-0753-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend week long workshops as part of an Altern MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 6, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775788423-TC5Q7CF79G8B3V49WIAI/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0114-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775796953-1ZUHP93JX5TEXYTFWR2F/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0379-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775804607-JR598H99GOUG7SZC5WQN/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0132-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775831895-9OE48ORGYFE3HODMH4RX/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0155-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544775826880-SQQFKLCED7DK5YXGOOM0/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0174-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544776284559-R6IT3MM9NKU87W2K0EU1/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0552-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544776537719-FD36EQZQTUZCKVI7E26R/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0597-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544780801136-K9BSY8FWNQ5ODH7SVO65/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0089-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544780811286-OPKTODAWIO8AT9MVXU6D/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0398-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1544780834313-VB6S2JSWT3M56EGEQVP1/20181207-Kenya-Wingard-0695-web.jpg OF - Kenya - Adolescent girls attend an Alternative Rite of Passage Ceremony MARIMANTI, KENYA: December 7, 2018 – When girls come of age in this rural part of Kenya, they go through a rite of passage that traditionally includes “cutting.” If not addressed, these girls are then considered “adults” and drop out of school to get married. With their partner organization Ntanira Na Mugambo Tharaka Women’s Welfare Project (TWWP), WGEP have developed a community education program aimed at helping communities in Tharaka eradicate FGM by working through these cultural and social issues. Called Circumcision with Words, the program also seeks to weave together the themes of girls’ education, empowerment and the eradication of FGM in our awareness efforts and to offer families and communities alternate ways to celebrate a girl’s rite of passage into womanhood without genital cutting. Across many cultures, FGM is considered a rite of passage for girls transitioning into womanhood. Although Kenya’s 2010 constitution and 2001 Children’s Act outlawed activities such as FGM and early marriage that deter girls from completing basic education, the practice continued. FGM is particularly widespread in rural areas like Tharaka where 71% of women have undergone FGM (Tharaka Report, 2008). In fact, 90% of girls subjected to FGM in Kenya come from rural areas, versus 9.3% who come from urban areas (Kinyuga, Nyaga et al, 190). WGEP supports education as a deterrent to FGM. 36% of women with no education reported that their daughters have undergone FGM versus 5% among women educated to secondary or higher levels (Tharaka Report, 2008.) WGEP has seen 2,240 girls say “No!” to FGM and enter adulthood safely, avoiding early marriage, and staying in school. 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They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818464798-HL4LM7LJXGEPO6HA2CIY/181220-Malawi-Bester-099-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Shackira Mussah who played Diana's friend ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818476035-Q2KDIE923CD5FUOIQ5P3/181220-Malawi-Bester-064-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Shackira Mussah who played Diana's friend ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818482269-A8FJDATJU3Q7ESG82YVA/181220-Malawi-Bester-002-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Shackira Mussah who played Diana's friend ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818514360-DXQR85ZWDR0MR06I3H28/181219-Malawi-Bester-156-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Diana assisting with blood sample testing in one of the Laborato BLANTYRE, MALAWI - DECEMBER 19, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818593684-N6N2ZZ417N6IC3T944G5/181218-Malawi-Bester-151-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Diana in one of the dorm rooms at St Mary's Girls Secondary Scho ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 18, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818600511-73MXZKZYIFABGQEHWFDC/181218-Malawi-Bester-141-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Diana in one of the dorm rooms at St Mary's Girls Secondary Scho ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 18, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. 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They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. 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Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818816510-HSSC6V4F892HZMH0PXZ5/181220-Malawi-Bester-010-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818824863-XQQQ0O1W903OO2DW19WA/181220-Malawi-Bester-011-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. 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Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818832171-GG81J8095E2KNZ13BDTW/181220-Malawi-Bester-212-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. They support girls at 24 partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. AGE Africa's EAGLES Project will provide secondry school girls with the skills and knowledge necassary to help them overcome cultural and societal norms that impede their access and completion of education. Promise "Diana" Mandala had to walk up to 12.5 miles one way barefeet everyday to get to school and could hardly afford education. In 2010, when Promise "Diana" Mandala was 14 she was selected to go to St Mary's Girls Secondary School due to her good grades. The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1547818838555-XGCV4YXJR7VYF94GSQBF/181220-Malawi-Bester-228-web.jpg OF - Malawi - Behind the scenes ZOMBA, MALAWI - DECEMBER 20, 2018: In Malawi AGE "Advancing Girls Education" Africa has worked in a variety of school environments since 2005 providing scholarships to girls in need. 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The school had dormatories which meant AGE Africa Stepped in and then provided her with a four-year scholarship. http://www.namuhmedia.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2023-03-30 http://www.namuhmedia.com/ebola-outbreak daily 0.75 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428360456684-KOCPXEJIVVQRPR6BND6A/140926-lbr-wingard-1189-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak - Ebola Outbreak 2014 Location: Liberia Photographer: Morgana Wingard   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355228583-OJMEDP6KNPWPOQ52VG9W/140926-lbr-wingard-0473-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Varbah helps members of her burial team suit up in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to collect the body of a woman who is suspected to have died of Ebola in her home. Varbah and her team drive around Monrovia 6 days a week picking up bodies. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355224168-3C6VSQ39AGD91446RUZ4/140926-lbr-wingard-0229-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Varbah helps burial team members suit up in PPE to collect the body of a woman who is suspected to have died of Ebola in her home. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304239742-6EERPA384KPZR2J641AA/140922-lbr-wingard-0447-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 22, 2014: A patient admitted to the Ebola treatment unit at Island Clinic resting in his bed connected to an IV. IV's were a controversial component of treatment during the outbreak because of the increased risk of infection to caregivers. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428369043965-ZK3C1TI6VB1UFWJCBCT2/140915-lbr-wingard-0022.MOV.Still001.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Sept 15, 2014: People wait outside the Ebola treatment unit at JFK Hospital for hours in hopes of being admitted. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428370631264-9DMEMIJJSAMYNG1BZAY2/140901-lbr-wingard-0105.MOV.Still001.jpg Ebola Outbreak DOLA TOWN, Liberia - Sept 1, 2014: ActionAid does community outreach in Dola Town to spread awareness about the prevention of Ebola. Dola Town is under quarantine after several communities members died of Ebola. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428370633104-ED0MZE40JBHVO0OCZ8J6/140901-lbr-wingard-0108.MOV.Still002.jpg Ebola Outbreak Dola Town, Liberia - Sept 1, 2014: A father brings his son to the clinic in Dola Town in a wheelbarrow because he is too weak to walk. He called the Ebola hotline and ambulances, but no one will pick him up because all the Ebola treatment centers are full and do not have room to admit new patients. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428368746995-M8XMDPUHSEM4POVPTHDB/140824-lbr-wingard-0014-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 24, 2014: The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, enacted a curfew starting on August 20 for all residents from 9pm to 6am every night. Streets that were normally teaming until late hours of the evening were desolate by 8:30. Night clubs and restaurants virtually shut down for months. 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The facility was setup by the WHO and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Liberia in response to the surge of patients needing an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU). USAID has provided 2 generators and other supplies to equip the facility with life saving care. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428356314862-E3FZFPA7VPW9A2LX5T9B/140925-lbr-wingard-0076-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 24, 2014: USAID and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation provide 9,000 household protection kits as part of the response to help Liberians fight Ebola. Each kit includes biohazard bags, soap, PPE, and gloves. They will be distributed across Liberia in partnership with UNICEF. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352055170-E4IVPR6RNRHCAXEJGVY1/141001-lbr-wingard-0188-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: With funding and support from USAID construction crews work quickly to build a new Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia in front of the former Ministry of Defence Building. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304245735-ML5ZE1XVWPFNZSZ2K2UO/141001-lbr-wingard-0555-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - October 1, 2014: U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Deborah R. Malac, walks through what became a visiting area for families of Ebola patients inside an Ebola treatment unit build with funding from USAID on the former Ministry of Defence property. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304248216-N5811AWMXFWWB47T501M/141015-lbr-wingard-0250-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Harbel, Liberia - October 15, 2014: A first look inside 25-bed critical care hospital—staffed by U.S. medical professionals—provided by the U.S. government to treat infected Ebola healthcare workers in Liberia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428351092072-940TA87NBF2KAFA11ZS6/141015-lbr-wingard-0758-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Liberian children run as a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey lands in Tubmanburg. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428441518548-0QS9DGPTQNNP93NIPY83/141015-lbr-wingard-0913-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Onboard a U.S. Marine V-22 Osprey landing in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428439195142-IP2G1FOOV4RO0ZQGSJJT/141015-lbr-wingard-1670-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: The U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with a team of engineers from the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) constructing an Ebola treatment unit in Tubmanburg, Bomi County. The team of AFL engineers were trained by U.S. Marines under Operation Onward Liberty. Operation Onward Liberty began in January 1, 2010. It is a U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense initiative designed to continue the United States' support to the government of Liberia and its ongoing efforts to transform its military. It is a five-year commitment of continued support and partnership, with mentors cycling through on six-month temporary duty assignments and some service members electing to do yearlong assignments. The construction of the Ebola treatment unit in Tubmanburg took about two to three weeks and had a capacity of up to 100 beds. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428304506959-9JDEEHFFN7PTFMAC8P08/141015-lbr-wingard-1814-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Tubmanburg, Liberia - October 15, 2014: Army Major General, Darryl Williams, (commanding general of U.S. Army Africa) chants with Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) engineers constructing a new Ebola treatment unit. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352868490-OLDXIZAY32ENWVNWYX43/141008-lbr-wingard-0158-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: The Bong County Ebola treatment unit run by International Medical Corps with support and funding from USAID. 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The graveyard was built to accommodate cultural practices and provide a place where relatives can visit family members— an important Liberian custom. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428435899782-5RLY6Y19UEKM5ALPFEII/141008-lbr-wingard-0233-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Bong County, Liberia - October 8, 2014: A burial team at the International Medical Corps Ebola treatment unit lower a body from an Ebola patient into a grave in their graveyard built behind the clinic. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352088805-0K0V74VIFYFEVW6J0VWZ/141009-lbr-wingard-0138-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Suakoko, Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: Felicia, a 29 year old Liberian nurse, prepares to go inside the Ebola patient ward to draw blood from confirmed patients. The samples are sent to the U.S. Navy Mobile lab for testing. If a patient receives 2 consecutive negative results they are delcared free of Ebola and released. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371788879-1HVAR2W75F2JW53YMG7A/140830-lbr-wingard-0267-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: All healthcare workers must wear full Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) before they cross over into the hot zone or patient area at ELWA 3—the main Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Monrovia. A mirror next to the entrance reminds them to check their PPE for any holes or openings. This could mean the difference between life and death. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371834478-VXC9YXL71QSI98ZT56L2/140830-lbr-wingard-0213-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Noah, a hygenist, suited up in his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) enters the hot zone for the first time at ELWA 3. Only staff dressed in PPE are allowed past this point and nothing that goes in can come out. Already inside, Anneli Erickson, a nurse from Sweden, explains the patient obervations on a sheet from her round to Vernique, a nurse from Canada on the outside, to rewrite the information on a new sheet of paper because the orginal sheet must be destoryed. ELWA 3 was the Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371839977-3H4NV8CVWKM7SSBRCFDR/140830-lbr-wingard-0428-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Agnes, a member of the Psychosocial Team dresses in her Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to prepare to enter the hot zone at ELWA 3— the Ebola treatment unit (ETU) run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Agnes brings gifts of biscuits, juice, and clothes from family members and friends to patients inside the facility. In addition to delivering packages her role is to counsel them and encourage them. She says this is her passion and she has interest in working with her brothers and sister of Liberia. She started at the ETU one week before. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428371851132-KITM2THE9TR6HS7F9S72/140830-lbr-wingard-0703-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 30, 2014: Health workers in Personal Protective Equipment inside the Ebola hot zone yell observations from patient rounds across the fence to Jens Pederson, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), because papers cannot cross the fence back to the outside world at ELWA— the Ebola treatment unit run by MSF in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352496959-OPYG7PPLRNWETNSNMVOY/141009-lbr-wingard-0439-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: Team leader, Elvis, speaks with a member of the International Medical Corps (IMC) Ebola response team who entered a family home in Mawa Town to check on an elderly woman who became sick after several members of her family have died of Ebola. Several members of the community have already died of Ebola so the response team used the opportunity to educate the town. Photo by Morgana Wingard   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352495611-IL5T2KSUI8061RHTE28H/141009-lbr-wingard-0724-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Bong County, Liberia - October 9, 2014: A member of the International Medical Corps (IMC) Ebola response team gets sprayed with chlorine after going into a family home in Mawa Town to check on an elderly woman who is sick after several members of her family have died of Ebola. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437792682-LYDLO2DXSIKWD6MDL74Z/140918-lbr-wingard-0461-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Ibrahim (20) and Edmond (30) sell shoes in Waterside Market in downtown Monrovia. Normally at this time of year they are selling shoes for students going back to school. On a typical day they would sell 2-5 pairs. Since the Ebola virus outbreak, sales have plummeted. Schools are closed and Liberians are staying at home as much as possible to avoid exposure. Many people have lost their jobs and are living on their savings to survive. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437792936-JWHPPWQA3BKTX5NNESQA/140918-lbr-wingard-0578-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Anne Benson (49) sells used clothes in Waterside Market to support her 9 children and 5 grandchildren. She lives with her husband and children in Sinkor. Since the Ebola outbreak her sales have plummeted. She used to sell 2,000-3,000LD ($23-$35USD) per day. Now she's lucky if she sells 500 LD ($6 USD) worth of clothes per day. She says only people in town are buying. People are not traveling to the market anymore because of the costs of transportation and the fear of taxis which are often carrying Ebola patients to Ebola treatment units. When she travels to work in a taxi she protects herself from the other passengers in the car with a long sweater. She makes all of her children, except two, stay at home all day to protect them from the Ebola virus and regularly uses hand sanitizer and their bucket of chlorine water at home. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428437799733-ESLWVXFTLA007AQZM37H/140918-lbr-wingard-0803-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - September 18, 2014: Ama and Oretha sell meat in Waterside Market. Since the Ebola outbreak and the quarantine of West Point their sales have plummeted. With the cost of transport and goods going up and sales going down they are making no profit to support their families. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352500804-9AU2KWIKUFKJGDR0MPF7/141014-lbr-wingard-0436-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - October 14, 2014: USAID Administrator, Raj Shah, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Børge Brende, and U.S. Ambassador, Deborah Malac, meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her ministers about the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428352504357-1YH3EWA4IK1E6A52K6NN/141014-lbr-wingard-0567-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - October 14, 2014: USAID Administrator, Raj Shah, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf hold a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to talk about their coordinated efforts to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. Administrator Shah announced an additional $142 million in USAID humanitarian activities to support the Ebola outbreak response. 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Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355235548-51SNL4GW2O6GXKHZ60ZK/140926-lbr-wingard-0870-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Harbel, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Dr. Jason Kindrachuk (left) and Microbiologist, Dr. Anthony Jones (right) spend four to eight hours of their day in protective space-like suits in a laboratory containment suite preparing samples from potential Ebola patients. As the light fades outside, they face the hardest part of their day. After changing back into normal clothes, one reads the list of names of specimens tested that day as the other records the information into a spreadsheet. Each name read aloud is followed by “positive” or “negative.” “That’s when it gets real,” says Dr. Kindrachuk. Fifty to sixty percent are positive. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428355241428-T1PPROLS0EDEX5HQYCFD/140926-lbr-wingard-0938-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Harbel, Liberia - September 26, 2014: Dr. Jason Kindrachuck inserts the DNA from 47 people into a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine to determine if they test positive for Ebola. This machine can test up to 100 samples of human DNA at a time. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428444239745-GSSM906X6ZQWB8FGE3LL/140831-lbr-wingard-0002-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 33, 2014: An Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff member in the triage unit, admits a young girl who arrived at ELWA 3 in an ambulance by herself. ELWA 3 is the Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia run by MSF. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428444241934-LOEMAULV8FO3RQV12VBW/140831-lbr-wingard-0377-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 33, 2014: Sissel Overvoll and Dr. Roberto Scaini jump for joy as eight patients prepare to be released from ELWA 3— the Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia. Photo by Morgana Wingard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5261544de4b0ada5c280d4bc/1428444244276-LMTMIZM08O7M6Z4M9Y3F/140831-lbr-wingard-0668-web.jpg Ebola Outbreak Monrovia, Liberia - Aug 31, 2014: William Poopei (40) and Patrick Poopei (6) walk out of the isolation unit at ELWA 3— the Ebola treatment unit run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF). William and Patrick (father and son) are both survivors of Ebola. 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