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Personal Stories
Charles’ Story
Charles is a pump mechanic, trained by Amref Health Africa, working to provide clean water in internally displaced people's camps in northern Uganda Charles is a pump mechanic, trained by Amref Health Africa, working to provide clean water in internally displaced people's camps in northern Uganda “If it wasn’t for the war, I would probably have become a successful farmer,” Charles Okana says, wiping sweat from his brow. Charles supervises seven men and women 2 km from the Orom IDP (Internally Displaced People) camp, They have come here to repair a water pump. After carefu
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Boaz Story
At the top of a vast open pit at the Geita Gold Mine, a group of men clad in bright reflective jackets, sturdy boots, protective goggles and helmets have their attention riveted on Boaz Kadikilo (29). He is using the lunch break to engage them in a discussion on condom use and the importance of testing for HIV.
What are the major challenges facing the miners and the
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George’s Story
George Olali is well known and liked in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. He is a community health worker attached to Amref Health Africa’s Kibera Community Health Centre. George has been living with HIV for close to 10 years now, and has been on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for three years.
George Olali visits patients living with HIV. He was trained by Amref Health Africa as a counsellor an
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Building Local Capacity: Aneno’s Journey to the National Laboratory
When Aneno Irene Oriech obtained her Uganda Certificate of Education from YY Okot Memorial College in 2005 in Masindi, she dreamt of becoming laboratory technician. The career path that Aneno was to take is a science discipline which required both practical and theoretical training.
The youthful and ambitious Aneno, who is from Eastern Equatorial State, joined Maltesa School of Medical Laboratory Technicians in Rumbek, where she studied her dream course and obtained a certificate in medical laboratory technology in 2009.
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Asrat’s Story
Dr. Asrat is a surgeon with Amref Health Africa. Dr Asrat Mengiste arrives at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. It’s 8am, and already 70 patients are lined up for a consultation. In the operating room are 20 local doctors
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Christine Akello’s Story
AKELLO CHRISTINE 28 years of age is a qualified enrolled midwife working in a remote sub county of Lalogi where the Health Center 1V she works in is located and it is about 145 kms from Gulu Town. Christine, just like most of the affected persons from the northern part of Uganda, suffered from the LRA atrocities that caused socio economic and psychological setbacks twenty years ago.
Christine was determined to excel in her studies with the intention to come back home to support the rehabilitation of the tattered health sector. She strongly f
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Renewed hope for fistula survivors in Eastern Uganda
Inspired by the fistula repair programme initiated by Amref Health Africa as a part of Uganda’s Staying Alive Project, women in the Teso Region of Eastern Uganda have come together to form a support group to help them come to terms with their new lifestyles, as well as improve their livelihoods since their reparative surgeries.
Based in Kateta in the Serere District, the Aipecitoi Women’s group brings together resources from each member to help develop small-scale income generating activities and encourage st
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Everything Looks Beautiful From Behind a Smile
Culture, though beautiful, can be enslaving even for the most liberal of minds. It limits our perceptions and shapes our attitudes. It can pick out the worst even in the best of situations. Hawaro Esayiyas and his family have been more than acquainted with this concept.
Seven years ago, in a small village near Butajira town, 300km from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, Esayiyas and his wife were blessed with a baby girl. However, their jubilation was cut short by shock and frustration that seemed to numb the hands of time. Even their love could not allow t Read More
Dr Mengiste talks them through every action and explains every decision. After four days he will have operated on 40 patients and passed his knowle