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What will we be eating in 50 years time?

 It depends which doom and gloom merchant you believe, but if you will bear with me and believe me for a minute I can tell you, we will be eating whatever Sygenta and Monsanto make the most money on!

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Grace Kodindo

Taken from the Grace Kodindo website 

 

 

Hope for Grace Kodindo is not about one doctor. It’s about hope for all women in Chad, and indeed in Africa as a whole. A hope that one day soon the world will regard them as equals with their counterparts in the rich West.

Dr Grace, as she is known, was our initial inspiration. Trained as an obstetrician in Canada and Sudan, she could be working on a high salary in the comfortable West. Instead, she went back to Chad, to where she felt her countrywomen needed her more. She has worked at the Hopital General de Reference in N’Djamena since 1977. (Right - Dr Grace Kodindo)

In June 2005 she was the subject of a BBC Panorama documentary called "Dead Mums Don’t Cry". In the UK, millions of viewers saw how, in the face of acute shortages and government indifference, the hospital staff struggled to provide care for the women and babies in their care. The documentary has been shown around the world, even to the United Nations. The message is clear – why should women in Africa die while their counterparts in the West live?

 
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