Jodi Enda

1 week ago | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda

I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and jeopardized women’s lives. During that time, I’ve interviewed many women, primarily in poor countries, who have struggled to obtain care for themselves or others. Their stories are often scary, heartbreaking and, quite literally, painful.

4 weeks ago | nation.africa | Allan Olingo |Claire Provost |Jodi Enda

Mwaka Chimera sits on a worn-out leather couch outside her two-roomed house in Vyongwani village, in south-eastern Kenya, cradling her new-born daughter. “I dropped out of primary school, and for my first five pregnancies, I never attended a single antenatal clinic. I would just show up at the hospital when it was time to give birth,” Chimera, 31, says in Swahili.

4 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda |Allan Olingo |Claire Provost |Neha Wadekar

VYONGWANI, KENYA – Mwaka Chimera sits on a worn-out leather couch outside her two-roomed house in Vyongwani village, in southeastern Kenya, cradling her newborn daughter. “I dropped out of primary school, and for my first five pregnancies, I never attended a single antenatal clinic. I would just show up at the hospital when it was time to give birth,” Chimera, 31, says in Swahili.

4 weeks ago | msmagazine.com | Jodi Enda |Claire Provost |Allan Olingo

This piece was published in partnership with The Fuller Project and Ms. magazine. Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world. Sign up for The Fuller Project’s newsletter. 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 2-week-old daughter in her arms.

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda

If you’re a woman in America, Washington, D.C., is, apparently, the place to be. Women in the nation’s capital have more power and influence than their sisters in any of the 50 states. They have more political and economic heft, better health outcomes and a greater say in policies that affect their lives. Women in Alabama and much of the South, meanwhile, have little power or influence, and that is reflected in their everyday existence.