It is well documented that in Sub-Saharan Africa professional education has not kept up to pace with health care challenges and that there is a need for an effective nursing education system for the achievement of sustainable development goals (BMC Nurs. 2018; 17: 3). This is the very reality that

Mercy (20) and Julia (22) are two young women with a dream of a better life. Both these young women take to the streets every day to ‘run with onions’. Running with onions involves pounding the streets trying to sell their goods, every day, 12 hours a day. 80+ hours

These three girls ran away from their homes when they found they were to have FGM. Salome on the right.  She was bringing water from the river and her friend told her the old man visiting in her hut was arranging the transportation of cows which her family had unbeknown

At 21, Divinah is fighting to better her education so she can support her children and herself This young girl is 21 years old (born 1996) and has two children. She lives alone at mission houses. She is single and needy. Her mother has just died and her father is

Mercy was a fishermans wife in Niger, Nigeria who had nine children and was found by my partner Jack being lifted up the mountain side in labour in a wheelbarrow to hospital as there was no transport. He gave her a lift and she arrived and in five minutes birthed

Iyang is a three year old Nigerian girl who suffers the stigma of albinism. Her father is a security guard who earns just £23 a month as cant care for her. In the rural area she lives this is seen as a sign of being a witch and no school