“I’m heading for Lulimba, a small, remote town in eastern DRC. It’s about 186 miles (300 kilometers) from Bukavu but the journey takes two days in a four-wheel drive vehicle. You can’t fly in as the dirt airstrip, originally cleared by a long abandoned church mission, is reported as uneven and potholed. The jolts along the red-dirt tracks, river crossings full of children splashing about (I wonder how many of them carry the worms of schistosomiasis), and short exchanges with armed men en route make it impossible to study the French grammar book open on my lap.” - Chris Bird, MSF doctor in the Democratic Repulic of Congo. Read more from his blog about his first assignment with MSF in the hospital in Kimbi Lulenge health zone in Lulimba, a small town in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: DRC 2012 © Stella Evangelidou

“I’m heading for Lulimba, a small, remote town in eastern DRC. It’s about 186 miles (300 kilometers) from Bukavu but the journey takes two days in a four-wheel drive vehicle. You can’t fly in as the dirt airstrip, originally cleared by a long abandoned church mission, is reported as uneven and potholed. The jolts along the red-dirt tracks, river crossings full of children splashing about (I wonder how many of them carry the worms of schistosomiasis), and short exchanges with armed men en route make it impossible to study the French grammar book open on my lap.”

- Chris Bird, MSF doctor in the Democratic Repulic of Congo. Read more from his blog about his first assignment with MSF in the hospital in Kimbi Lulenge health zone in Lulimba, a small town in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Photo: DRC 2012 © Stella Evangelidou

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