What a difference a year makes. This past spring, Keren, Ketsia, Kenaya and Kendra turned one-year-old.

It is September 3, 1854 and 70 people from a single London neighborhood have died from diarrhea in the last 24 hours. If they died today, doctors would identify the cause of death as “vibrio cholerae.”

Imagine that a friend calls you on the phone. He just got his driver’s license today and tells you this: “I am driving and noticed a light is on that looks like a gas pump. What does it mean?”

Students at Mother Patern College of Health Sciences are studying to become nurses, social workers, or laboratory technicians. Global Strategies has sponsored dozens of scholarships since our program began in 2014.

This week, our team visited the nurses at Star of the Sea clinic and shadowed them for a day as they visited mothers and babies at their homes.

Children born early or with complications in low resource settings around the world often have to face the consequences of less than ideal birth outcomes – living with a disability.

Dr. Luc Malemo (far left) and Dr. Givano Kashemwa (far right) congratulate the first graduates of the neonatal nurse training course: Misi, Assani, and Sister Delphine.

Aerial view of the West Point neighborhood of Monrovia, Liberia, home to 75,000 Liberians and the appropriately named Star of the Sea Health Center.