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...doesn’t blink. The intravenous line slips out of his forearm and sprays blood all over the floor. The nurse throws her hands up in the air, chucks the unit of blood in the trash, and bends down to wipe up the mess with a dirty wad of cotton. Yet he doesn’t cry; the room echoes with labored breaths and his mother’s muted sobbing. Perhaps she is remembering a strikingly similar scene from six months ago, when Hassan’s twin brother died of pneumonia.This morning, I asked a pediatrician...
...millions of Congolese like Esperance Live, every day seems to bring a fight for survival. TIME met her last year in a rundown government hospital in Bunia, a dusty town in Congo's northeast. Her son Jonathan, 2, was propped up on a tangled wad of clothes atop a rusting bed; he hadn't moved his limbs or spoken for weeks. Live had already endured a lifetime of sorrow. She lost two children to treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo...
...came to me with the wad of money and said, 'This probably belongs to someone that you work with. Can you return...
...bumpy." So instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted a green wire protruding from two layers of cellophane. Neatly sandwiched between them was a wad of plastic explosives sufficient to blow up Sandarusi and anyone else who might have been in the room at the time...
...continue to pour so much money into a single nonprofit known more for first response than for long-term rebuilding? "The beauty of the nonprofit sector is its diversity," says Borochoff. "Americans need to figure out that they should use the Red Cross, but don't use the whole wad. Save it for some other groups...