A hundred thousand lives is a statistic. Here are some of them one at a time — told as plainly as we can, and always with permission.
When the water came through Ogbaru at three in the morning, families left with what they could carry. Within seventy-two hours our team had reached four hundred households with food, clean water and dry bedding — and stayed for the five months it took them to rebuild.
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Our team reached four hundred households with food, clothing and clean water within seventy-two hours — then stayed five months.
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Emeka had not left his compound in four years. A properly fitted chair — assessed, measured, adjusted — changed that in an afternoon.
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Six thousand seedlings in one week — and, more importantly, a community committee that will still be watering them in five years.
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One school, one hot meal a day. Enrolment rose by 62% in a term — because for many families, lunch was the reason to send a child at all.
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A mobile clinic in a village with no health post. The queue started at dawn; the barrier was never distance, it was the consultation fee.
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Amara was turned away from school twice for wearing the wrong clothes. A uniform costs less than a tank of fuel. She has not missed a day since.
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Our first water point failed in eleven months because nobody owned the repairs. The second one has a funded caretaker — and is still running.
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Nine mothers who once queued for parcels now run a co-operative that supplies our own kitchens. That is the outcome we are actually after.
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Eleven years, one Saturday a month, roughly nine thousand consultations. She says it is the least interesting thing about her. We disagree.
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