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Primary school French teacher Aloys Butoyi has been passionate about educating children since he became a teacher over 20 years ago. Mr. Butoyi teaches at the Excel School in Musanze, Rwanda. Like most teachers, he remembers the COVID-19 pandemic as an incredibly difficult time.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, killing over 1.5 million people every year. Even more devastating is that TB is preventable, treatable and curable – but too often people most at risk can’t access the tools and resources that exist to protect themselves or get timely treatment.

When the floodwaters started rushing through Celina Tembe’s home, a neighbor helped Celina and her three children to safety. “In the past, we knew that during the winter there would be no rain,” says Celina. “But nowadays it has become… normal.” Most of Celina’s neighborhood in Boane District, Mozambique, was under water. She and her

Community health worker Marc Ilboudo often provides care to the very youngest children in his village. Most days, he conducts at-home visits for families living in Pousghin, approximately 30 kilometers northeast of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital city. Other days, patients come directly to his home.

Innocent was only 6 years old when his father died from an AIDS-related illness. Soon after the little boy began feeling sick himself. After visiting multiple health centers, Innocent eventually ended up at the Baylor Foundation in Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, and was put on lifesaving antiretroviral medicines (ARVs).

When Farida Tiemtoré was a 23-year-old student she had big dreams. “I said to myself, ‘Why not create something on the internet to enable people to get the right information?’ Straightaway, the blog let me connect with girls and with female role models. I wanted these role models to share their experience to support other