This is another of my favorite photos from Congo. I took this photo of one of our architects with a new mother at a health center in Kinshasa where my organization had done a recent installation of solar power. Most of our work was in the rural interior of the country, so I didn’t get to do much …
This is one of my favorite photos from Congo. I took this during a training I was doing for health workers in Bosobolo, Nord Ubangi, a very remote and rural town in the north of Congo, near the border of Central African Republic. I was showing the health workers videos that we made that educate …
In honor of Valentines Day here is a photo of Antonio and me at the top of Nyiragongo volcano in Virunga National Park in the eastern part of DRC. This was a challenging hike up the side of a very steep and high volcano. It took us about six hours with regular breaks. The eastern …
This is another photo I took during a bed net distribution in DR Congo. This mother was convalescing with her young child underneath a bed net that we had recently distributed and hung up in the local health center. Magic 35/365, Bed Nets, Kasai Province, DR Congo, 2014
I have been working in Congo for the past four years and in six days, I will be leaving and don’t know when I will be back exactly. Maybe later this year, maybe next. Could be a decade. I originally came here to do malaria work. I managed massive bed net distributions in two provinces. …