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Public Health Promoters counting buckets before distributing to the women refugees (Photo by Yussuf Kajenje)
“It costs me one dollar each month to buy a half litre of palm oil, which I use for cooking and body oil,” These are the words of Habonimana Emerace (22), a refugee from Burundi and a mother of two boys and a girl, explaining how she has met some of her basic hygiene needs. Like any woman in...
Just over 3 years ago, there was no hope for success for Edward Malunguja (31) who was doing traditional subsistence rice farming on 2 acres rented farm “with little yield.” The story is different now to this married father of four from Nyitundu village in Northern Tanzania who plans to...