Annette is a 17-year-old girl who lives with her mother near Kyenjojo, Uganda. Annette is paralyzed from the chest down. She had malaria when she was six years old, and it settled in her spine. Our partners Abel and Anita Waiswa introduced us to Annette and her mom last summer. Annette is...

Hello. My names are Lucia Gunguwo. I was a throw-away child. My mother abandoned me when I was born. I would have died, but my grandmother didn’t want to see a baby die, so she kept me alive. My grandmother was the second wife of a man who lived in Mtoko, Zimbabwe. In our culture, it was...