Men, women and children wait to be attended to under a tent at a health centre at the Kyangwali refugee settlement. These 54 men and women members of the host community and refugees living at the refugee settlement in Hoima District, Western Uganda. With an estimated 1.3 million refugees seeking safety on its territory, Uganda […]
37 students taking Diplomas in Nursing and Midwifery graduated from the Maridi School of Nursing and Midwifery (MSNW) in Maridi County, South Sudan on 1 September 2018. The graduates (21 female and 16 male) have successfully completed the 3-year courses. Maridi State Governor Hon. Africano Mande, alongside other State officials attended the graduation. Country Director […]
Nearly 60 % of refrigerators used in health clinics in Africa have unreliable electricity, compromising the safe storage of vaccines and medicines. Half of them are destroyed due to lack of refrigeration. These are the findings of an Atlas released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2017. “The lack of access to continuous […]
Imagine not being able to read text messages on your mobile phone. Your children come home from school and at the end of the day you cannot supervise or correct their homework, or read their progress reports at the end of the term. Yet this is the reality for a majority of women in some […]
The Maridi School of Nursing and Midwifery (MSNW) has received a donation of 90 medical books from the British Medical Association (BMA). The donation was received in July 2018. The School is managed by the South Sudan country programme of Action Africa Help International, with funding support from Bread for the World. MSNW is part […]