Glenda – healthcare worker – Samar Island, Philippines Glenda Borja’s one-year-old son turned cold, his lips blue from lack of oxygen. Feeling helpless, she stroked his tiny body, wheezing for air, and prayed that this asthma attack would not be his last. As the village’s one public health worker, she knows respiratory illness in a [Read more...]

Name: Alice, Age: 14, Grade: 7 Alice lives with her mother in a traditional hut, 4km from school. She attends school six days a week, leaving her house at 6:30am and not returning home until 5:30pm in the evening. Her favorite subjects at school are math and Kiswahili. She does not like her English class [Read more...]

Name: Loventer, Age: 13, Grade: 8 Loventer lives with her mother and 4 siblings in a timber house with a tin roof. Her Father passed away in intertribal conflict during the violence in 2009. Her Mother now farms the land herself, but it barely supports them. They have no electricity, and get water from a [Read more...]

On Left: Namunyak, Age: 14, Class: 8 On Right: Nasikeu, Age: 12, Class: 7 Namunyak walks to school each morning for an hour, from her traditional thatched home. Her father was killed in an incident associated with his drinking so she lives only with her mother. She has one brother who is 10, and one [Read more...]