Twenty-nine-year-old Melina Nkosi* had to wake up before dawn and walk for two and a half hours to reach the Matapila Health Centre, located in a small village 20 kilometres away from Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital city. She hopes that today she will finally get the good news for which she’s been desperately dreaming. For almost two… Read more →←
Author: Ricardo Pires
I met Josephine earlier this year, a bright 21-year-old young woman from a country where 68 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line and three young people become infected with HIV every hour, two of them being girls. That’s an average of 72 young people infected per day, and 27,000 per year. These numbers are strong… Read more →←
Our cargo plane had arrived, and it was time for action. We had faced some logistical nightmares, not uncommon in South Sudan at the moment, but at last, in the village of Pagak close to the border with Ethiopia, we were fully equipped with life-saving supplies. Volunteers from the community toured dusty streets with megaphones… Read more →←
My mission was relatively straightforward: to follow the joint UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP) Rapid Response team going to Pagak, a small village on the eastern side of South Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, in Upper Nile state. The town was one out of 24 priority locations selected to receive life-saving supplies before the… Read more →←
