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‘So Many Are Sick And Dying,’ Says 9/11 Survivor Advocate

‘So Many Are Sick And Dying,’ Says 9/11 Survivor Advocate

Demolitions specialist John Feal was among hundreds of people doing recovery work at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York when a beam fell on him and crushed his left foot. Undeterred by the injury, Feal started campaigning for 9/11 victims and first responders and set up a non-profit that monitors […]

Coronavirus Steals Jobs In Urban Kenya

Coronavirus Steals Jobs In Urban Kenya

In the last three months, teacher Faith Njeri has been a regular customer at a courier service office in Nairobi, collecting parcels sent from her village three hours drive north of the capital. When the coronavirus pandemic closed the private school where she taught, “I was left jobless,” she said. Efforts to feed her family by washing […]

Women Bear The Trauma Of War

Women Bear The Trauma Of War

Beatrice Adyero* woke up one July morning in 2002 to news that completely shattered her life. Her husband, four sons, and a daughter-in-law were among 56 civilians abducted and killed by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group. Her youngest granddaughter, only two-years-old, wasn’t spared either. Nearly 16 years after the slaughter of her family, Adyero […]