Maryam Ogunniyi, a student at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, had a transformative experience when she accompanied her friend Nafisa Abubakar to a Diphtheria infection program organized by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Nafisa, who was interning at a primary healthcare centre in Kano state, introduced Maryam to this previously unfamiliar illness. During […]
Mrs Oluyode Omotola is a widow with six kids to feed, Her husband is gone, but she holds on tight to memories of growing old together. “I thought we’d grow old together,” she says with sorrow, But she must be strong for her children and their tomorrow. But her daughter tells us a different story, […]
