I have been working in Congo for the past four years and in six days, I will be leaving and don’t know when I will be back exactly. Maybe later this year, maybe next. Could be a decade. I originally came here to do malaria work. I managed massive bed net distributions in two provinces. This is a picture I took of a man tending to his young son at a health center in rural Nord Ubangi. It’s a typical scene anywhere you go in Congo. Small health centers made of mud and every bed full of people sick from malaria. The bed nets aren’t really working. They are only band-aids and even the small amount of protection they do provide is weakening as the mosquitos become more and more resistant to the pesticides they are laced with.

We need a vaccine. Hurry up Bill Gates.

Magic 24/365, It’s Malaria, Nord Ubangi, DRC, 2016