Twelve-year-old Faith Sei broadly smiles. She draws clean water from a water point that is connected from a natural spring, about 200 metres away; then drinks it. Faith is from Eluai Village, Mara Division, Narok County. “I live there. It takes me about five minutes to walk to this water point,” the Standard Four pupil, […]
The 35-year-old mother of three has a broad smile as she leans on her cow shed. She was given a grade cow three years ago that has transformed her farming. Peruth Musubika, 35, milks eight litres from her Frisian cow at Katikara Village, Hoima District, in Uganda. The cow has calved thrice. “The first calf […]
Falling pregnant at a tender age is trouble but becoming expectant as a mentally challenged can be unfathomable pain. However, Linden Chanda, 21, was lucky to have an aunt who immediately sought the services of AAH Zambia to save the life of a relative, who had no idea of what had happened to her. Linden’s […]
‘’My children or I could have died. I kept on getting children’’, says Doreen Chola, remembering years when she was not on family planning. Chola who hails from Kawambwa area had no time to contribute economically to her family’s wellbeing because she could either be breastfeeding or sick due to her body not having enough […]
Dor Peter has been living in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda since 2001, after fleeing fighting in in Bentiu, Sudan (before cessation). He set up a temporary mud-walled and grass-thatched house soon afterward, and in 2005 with the support of friends he built another one. Peter, 44, who is physically challenged, last year reported to […]