• Lucky

    Life has changed

    3 CommentsMy parents called me lucky and I guess it’s absolutely true to me - “I am lucky". You may be wondering what makes me feel lucky? It’s the feeling that I am alive and going to be with my family,... Read more...
  • Grace Lamwaka

    Strength returning

    0 CommentsI’m happy I can see a great change. There’s a great change in me. People have been saying I look strong and I am strong! I can do a lot of things!! I’ve been running, I’ve been walking, and today,... Read more...
  • Lorna Adams

    To Blog or Not to Blog

    20 CommentsTo blog or Not to blog, with apologies to Shakespeare. MSF offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, irrespective of race,... Read more...
  • Opira Churchill

    I know how to kick it!

    3 CommentsI am doing some small exercises now. In the morning, I jog around, come back, clean my room… Then in the evening I take a walk around town. When I was in primary school, I used to run 25 times around... Read more...
  • Chris Bird

    Il faut se debrouiller! (You’ll just have to muddle through!)

    5 CommentsKimbi Lulenge, South Kivu, DRC Our team arrived to start working at the Lulimba Hospital at the height of the malaria season. We barely had time to unpack our boxes because we were greeted with a crowd... Read more...
  • Mariam Davtyan

    The final blow

    17 CommentsAfter refusing the drugs and leaving the hospital, I felt incomparably quiet, as I wasn’t in the hospital conditions, which were very overwhelming. Together with my parents I tried to find different... Read more...
  • athong

    Reuniting with family

    1 CommentI want to wish the readers of this blog a very happy new year. I have some good news to share. Both my daughter and son have come to live with me. My daughter’s name is Kimboi (14 years), and my son is called... Read more...
  • Grace Lamwaka

    New years wishes 2 and 3

    0 CommentsOkay so first of all I have said I am praying for the health of the family. Secondly, I want to go back to school. There’s nothing I have to do immediately after this treatment except to go back to school... Read more...
  • Opira Churchill

    Business

    0 CommentsI have plans for after these drugs. There is so much work I plan to do. I want to go to Gulu, I want to go back when I have some money. I want to collect some money and start work – a business. Buying... Read more...
  • Chris Bird

    Journey to Lulimba

    16 CommentsLong journeys in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a part of the dizzying extremes in this country dripping with precious minerals but where one in five children die before their fifth birthday.... Read more...