Nipping Delicate Flowers in the Bud
Over the past 10 years, hundreds of little girls have passed through the heavily veined hands of Asiya Harbu. Her fingers are long and slender, the nails short, but while a woman’s hands are often gentle and reassuring, a channel of love and nurture, hers have brought unspeakable pain and gross disfigurement to her fragile charges.
Finally, a Place to Call Home
The ‘newborns’ unit at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is alive with the lusty cry of babies. At the centre of the room, a group of mothers wash their new arrivals, handling them with great tenderness and soothing them with gentle voices.
