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(Laura Payton) http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/13/all-of-the-colour monthly 0.5 2015-05-13 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5553a183e4b04d837d77ec76/1431544220656/ Blog - All of the colour Members of a village savings and loan program. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5553a0bae4b08f06e8d861e8/1431544019363/ Blog - All of the colour Me with a Care Canada community health worker in Tabora region. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/55539e5ae4b028d78235dd1c/1431543400753/ Blog - All of the colour Do you see the faint rainbow? It's a full freaking rainbow. I can't remember having ever seen that before. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5553a02ae4b004e720fb790e/1431543863847/ Blog - All of the colour I have not screwed with this photo in any way. The light is just magical here. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/55539de6e4b035a84c407053/1431543278769/ Blog - All of the colour There was a showerhead...which was rusted over and didn't work. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5553a1d0e4b0caa600247497/1431544277879/ Blog - All of the colour This is where we had lunch yesterday. (Edited to add: the food was delicious. But I'm not sure how hygienic it is). (Laura Payton) http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/18/when-a-project-ends monthly 0.5 2015-05-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5559b621e4b02d567e758785/1431942695958/ Blog - When a project ends Rehema Shabani with daughter Samia Juma talks about a Canadian government-funded development program in Tanzania's Singida region. 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My permanent state of mind over the past few weeks. http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/4/26/how-canada-helps monthly 0.5 2015-04-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/553db29ae4b0f015b97e9740/1430106790860/ Blog - How Canada helps http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/3/hurdles-and-hospitals monthly 0.5 2015-05-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5546cf88e4b0b68214c646b7/1430704022503/ Blog - Hurdles and hospitals Photo of two women walking in Tanzania courtesy of Jason Ho. http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/9/singida-region-photos monthly 0.5 2015-05-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dc9e1e4b01d087a86abf1/1431161315906/ Blog - Singida region photos Patients wait at the only hospital in a district of 272,000 people. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dcac8e4b0fb928cd3a274/1431161546208/ Blog - Singida region photos A clinic vaccination room. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dca61e4b043d4fe62c91c/1431161443013/ Blog - Singida region photos 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) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dcbf3e4b094686ab15f31/1431161846152/ Blog - Singida region photos 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) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dc9a2e4b032f303e37c03/1431161252943/ Blog - Singida region photos A World Vision Tanzania official watches a community health worker instruct a woman on breastfeeding. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/554dca1be4b09fe6f89849c8/1431161374124/ Blog - Singida region photos A woman sits next to her newborn baby. She shares this room with three other new moms. (Laura Payton) http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/20/creative-complications monthly 0.5 2015-05-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/555cc41ce4b01cedd85a7169/1432142881564/image.jpg Blog - Creative complications Yes, all of this fit into one safe. My gear at an earlier stop.  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/555cc389e4b0fd7897836c32/1432142789570/image.jpg Blog - Creative complications Trying really hard to maintain my om...  http://www.laurapayton.com/blog/2015/5/29/haiti-photos monthly 0.5 2015-05-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5568ea4de4b0b96970e56943/1432939097848/ Blog - Haiti photos A girl listens to community health workers at a monthly community gathering in Terre Neuve, Haiti. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5568ec76e4b0abcb104ea895/1432939648606/ Blog - Haiti photos The hills of Port-au-Prince. (Laura Payton) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5568eae3e4b014bf433a0ff6/1432939251769/ Blog - Haiti photos Community health workers discuss vaccination and nutrition with women in Terre Neuve, Haiti. 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This is from my first trip to Africa - to Rwanda. I'm the one on the right in the brown t-shirt. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/5534655de4b09a66347d65c1/1428882122986/ Images - Nine years ago... This is from my first trip to Africa - to Rwanda. I'm the one on the right in the brown t-shirt. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/552af966e4b0bad8e30d5ac4/552afa19e4b02ed06b951aef/1428879942549/ Images - Newsprint This is me...my enormous coffee mug says I love the smell of newsprint in the morning. http://www.laurapayton.com/links daily 0.75 2015-04-20 http://www.laurapayton.com/about daily 0.75 2018-05-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aec80e4b0c75f5b8848a9/t/552afc06e4b0c34422e49775/1428880391654/30.png About This is me, gulping coffee ahead of my interview for the fellowship.