Nine years of war in Syria have given 14-year-old Kareem Haddad (name changed to protect his security) a lot of reasons to want to study medicine, especially neurology. When Kareem was in second grade, his father, a pharmacist, was killed by shrapnel on the streets of Jaramana.
Linda Espenshade
Linda Espenshade is Mennonite Central Committee U.S. news coordinator.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Mathare settlement isn’t an easy place to stay clean and healthy on an ordinary day, so preventing COVID-19 from infecting people in a crowded slum of Nairobi is a challenge.