Despite Rising Needs and Supply Shortages, You’re Still Saving Lives 4 min Read As a follow-up to our first interview with Doctor Justin Okello (our area program manager in southwestern Uganda) we wanted to share his insights about how he and his teams are coping with the increasing needs and decreasing resources they’re…
5 Things that One of our Doctors in Uganda Wants You to Know 4 min Read Doctor Justin Okello is our area program manager in southwestern Uganda. He oversees two refugee settlements and two transit centers where we provide medical care and run community healthcare programs. I sat down with him to hear about the most…
Bigger than Birth: How Medical Teams Midwife Daphine is Transforming Health through Midwifery Care 7 min Read On an average day, midwife Daphine Twakire delivers up to 4 babies. That’s 4 precious, new souls joining the community at the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Kasonga, Uganda. When these little ones come into the world and open their eyes,…
Triple the Need, but Triple the Love: Nzariturike’s Story 5 min Read Nzariturike Nyirandihuke, a devoted 32-year-old mother from Congo, is the very image of motherhood – a smiling woman with her lap full of sweet children. But in her case, her lap is very full! During her most recent pregnancy, she…
The Rest of the Story: Refugees Help Heal Their Neighbors 5 min Read Hope. For a refugee forced to leave all that he or she knows, it’s hard to have any sense of hope and even harder to hold onto it. Living in makeshift settlements, unsanitary conditions and poverty for long periods of…