03/07/2019
Gender
Niger
Hard-to-reach areas and long commutes? Challenge accepted
To reach every last child, health workers sometimes travel on motorcycles and walk for hours to deliver the all-important life-saving vaccines. On the frontlines of the polio programme, health workers protect millions of children.
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