We didn't start the fire, it was always burning
A local LGBTQ+ organization in South Africa reflects on what it takes to keep the doors open and rebuild from ashes, this time from a real fire.
My story is the sum of the stories of other people 🎧
Ben shares how coming of age online opened his world and connected him to people far outside the borders of the United States. That instinct to seek out real stories shaped his decade working on HIV programs supported by the U.S. government.
Robert, embodying the response to HIV for over 20 years
Thirty minutes in a yellow-painted counseling room in Uganda, Robert reflects on more than two decades living with HIV and what it takes to keep showing up as funding falls away.
I can't let go just yet
Each recollection reminds me why I once poured so much of my life into a cause greater than my own ambitions, and how that devotion carries a special kind of heartbreak.
They’re children. We’re the problem.
This World Children’s Day, I remember the children I met in Mozambique—Ana, Melva, Nuro—whose lives hinge on the adults around them. We create the barriers, but we also carry the solutions. Their stories show what it truly takes to keep a child healthy.
Stacking watermelons
Taking pictures might be the simplest thing anyone can do, yet it’s the one that still makes me the most unsure of myself.
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