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Thanks to the R. James Travers Fellowship, I spent two months researching and writing about Canadian-funded aid in Tanzania and Haiti. Follow my work here.

A nutrition class meets outside because they don't have an office. When it rains, they take cover under trees until it's dry enough to continue. (Laura Payton)

Singida region photos

May 09, 2015 by Laura Payton in Travel

A World Vision Tanzania official watches a community health worker instruct a woman on breastfeeding. (Laura Payton) — A World Vision Tanzania official watches a community health worker instruct a woman on breastfeeding. (Laura Payton)

Patients wait at the only hospital in a district of 272,000 people. (Laura Payton) — Patients wait at the only hospital in a district of 272,000 people. (Laura Payton)

A woman sits next to her newborn baby. She shares this room with three other new moms. (Laura Payton) — A woman sits next to her newborn baby. She shares this room with three other new moms. (Laura Payton)

Bowls of water line the wall in a maternity waiting home, where women can spend days awaiting delivery rather than trying to travel hours over rutted roads to the hospital when they're in labour. There is no running water in the building, and t… — Bowls of water line the wall in a maternity waiting home, where women can spend days awaiting delivery rather than trying to travel hours over rutted roads to the hospital when they're in labour. There is no running water in the building, and the women sometimes sleep two to a bed due to overcrowding. (Laura Payton)

A clinic vaccination room. (Laura Payton)

Apologies for the graininess of the photos - reposting these from facebook until I get home to my laptop.