On International Women’s Day we share the story of one woman, Malvina from the indigenous highland region of Peru. Her story is a testimony to the lack of opportunity and resources, and the overwhelming discrimination that poor mothers experience worldwide. Today, girls and women still face the biggest burdens of…

It was around 4 pm on a Sunday afternoon and Joseph, the Clinical Officer — the term used in Africa for a Physician’s Assistant — and I were seeing emergency patients at St. Theresa Hospital in Nzara, South Sudan. A man carrying a young girl in his arms came hurriedly…

Faduma Ahmed’s experience living as a refugee from Somalia influenced her decision to volunteer with CMMB’s team in Kenya as a public health professional. Here she shares more about her motivation and why going ‘home’ to Kenya is something she has always dreamed of. — I am one person whose life was changed by a war most of my friends have never heard of. I carry, like a shadow, a childhood that I never knew and a civil war that forever altered the course of my life.