Sunday, December 21, 2008

DR CONGO - MATERNAL HEALTHCARE


A project on the state of maternal health care for UNICEF in eastern Congo led to this image...

A woman, who lost her husband when they were forced to flee Sake earlier this year, gives birth, in a health center in Goma on December 14th, 2008.

Monday, December 15, 2008

DR CONGO - UNICEF


"A group of children, displaced by recent fighting, play with condoms on a hill overlooking Kibati camp, near the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 25th November, 2008."

A photo taken while on assignment with UNICEF in Goma - for more of these images please click here:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/drcongo_46828.html

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

MAPIMA


Goma, DR Congo
Mapima, a sixth month old orphaned chimpanzee was rescued from a Congolese Govenrment soldier six weeks ago. She is photographed with her full time carer, Foster, in the Provincial capital of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the 18th November, 2008.