The streets of Kigali, Rwanda, once bore witness to 100 days of systematic slaughter that ended the lives of an estimated 1 million people. Children left behind after the 1994 genocide, and those born soon after, emerged into a new Rwanda saturated by trauma, grief,...
Today, there are 35 million people in our world living with HIV/AIDS, including 3.2 million children . . . The brunt of the crisis largely affects sub-Saharan Africa, and the fallout has been absolutely devastating. HIV/AIDS stifles economies, limits educational...
For the thousands of children around the world, malaria is a very real enemy. Malaria keeps students out of the classroom, cripples health, and in far too many tragic cases, causes death. Every 60 seconds, a child dies of malaria. Although malaria is entirely...
Elydia had just given birth to a beautiful little girl . . . but she could hardly bring herself to look at her. Losing her son only a few days prior had brought on a sudden, unbearable heaviness she feared would suffocate her completely. Elydia had done everything she...
Elsa was 16 years old and utterly destitute when she discovered she was going to have a baby. It was the last thing on earth she felt prepared to do. She wondered whether her emaciated, feeble body could even withstand the pregnancy. A gripping fear began to come over...
The residents of Hamidyeh were jolted awake by warning gunfire directly outside their doors. After weeks of relentless, stomach-churning tension, they knew their worst fears had come true. The armed gangs went from home to home, forcing families from their beds into...