Kaduna City, Nigeria - By sunrise on a warm December morning, Janila Shulu’s team are out in
the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a
predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.
Three
female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from
house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths
of all the young children they can find, even those who pass by on the
street. By 1 p.m., after giving hundreds of doses, they stop for the
day — the first of a national five-day effort.
