Mercy Akinyi Otieno

Kenya · Nairobi (Mathare slum) · * 1989

Social situation: A dedicated doctor working for ‘Ärzte für die Dritte Welt e.V.’ in the Mathare Valley slum (in the south of Nairobi) brought the following harrowing case to Tulisa’s attention: The patient is 22-year-old Mercy, a mother of three children (aged 6 months, 3 …

Maureen Sudi – Vaginal trauma

Kenya · Nairobi · * 1984

Social situation: Maureen lives with her family in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. She and her husband scrape by – ‘as usual’ – with odd jobs and no secure, regular income. Living in the most basic conditions (without water or electricity), they do not even …