Eliza Anyangwe

1 week ago | fullerproject.org | Winnie Byanyima |Neha Wadekar |Allan Olingo |Eliza Anyangwe

GOLINI, KENYA – Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her two-week-old daughter in her arms. She was wracked with despair. “How will I get my baby vaccinated?” Mwavugadi worried aloud. “Postnatal clinics feel like an impossible dream,” she said in Swahili.

2 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | ALLAN OLINGO |Eliza Anyangwe |Erica Hensley

ADRÉ, Chad—When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered El Geneina, the capital of the Sudanese state of West Darfur, Sadia Adams’s* two brothers knew they had to hide. RSF fighters were systematically exterminating men from the Masalit ethnic group, and their best chance of survival was to disappear and reemerge once fighters from the rogue paramilitary force had departed.

2 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Eliza Anyangwe

I’m sure you feel it too: the gnawing sense of overwhelm? Of life coming at you too fast; the unrelenting onslaught of bad news; the transformation of your family Whatsapp group into a non-stop stream of understandable panic, outrage or even despair? In many of our communities the crises have been unfolding for some time, but everywhere it seems that the decisions being made by the current US Administration are compounding, exacerbating or causing fresh harm.

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | sanket jain |Allan Olingo |Eliza Anyangwe

On Mother’s Day in 1974, a group of women headed to New York’s Prospect Park with a stack of flyers and pressed them into caregivers’ hands. “All women are unwaged workers,” the flyers read. “We work from morning to night, but at the end of the week, we have no money to show for it…We want wages for housework!”Their call to recognize and compensate unpaid domestic labor — work largely done by women – was radical. But it struck a chord.

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | Allan Olingo |Eliza Anyangwe |Kamau Maichuhie

Shagupta Makandar, 21, was five months pregnant when deadly floods swept into her village in western India in August 2019. She tried to flee the rising waters, first slogging through the mud on foot and then trying to bike over the treacherous terrain. The mental stress and physical strain of fleeing led to her going into labour prematurely. But by the time she got to the nearest hospital, it was too late: her baby was born prematurely and died within an hour.