Blog and Portfolio by Crystal Stafford
This woman, pictured to the left is my favorite woman. Ok, one of them. I have many. But THIS woman is special. Her name is Nelly Pamba and she is the head nurse at Kawadje Health Center outside of Gbadolite, Nord Ubangi. Her village had no health center and she knew they needed one. So what did she do? She got the community together and they built a health center with only the…
Seriously, there was something about the utter lack of comforts in this hotel, Chez Yege in Gabdolite, that made my just add boiled water meals from REI taste so…
This is another photo from that one day when I got left in a village in Nord Ubangi. See the full story here. This is the…
This is a photo I took during one of our many breakdowns while traveling in remote villages in Congo. This one happened to be in Loko, about…
There was a convent called Pangoma where we hosted all of our trainings for both malaria and communications activities. The convent was either a 20-minute drive from our…
This is a photo I took in Nord Ubangi while working on a bed net campaign. I passed by one of the health centers we renovated…
No matter how small the village in Congo, there is always a church. This particular church was in Bosobolo, a small village in Nord Ubangi province.…
After an amazing trip to Namibia and South Africa I am back in DRC. It will be hard to get back into the swing of things…