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Nelly Kuria: “My dad is dying.”

August 27, 2017 by couragestories

I’m writing this because my family & I have run out of options. Everything that we have, our property, our assets, our salaries, my parents’ retirement fund, everything we had we have put into taking care of my dad and yet it is not enough. We need around 6 Million, yeah, I know it kind of takes your breath away huh? Big number. We need about that much so that we can take my dad to India for a liver […]

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Categories: The Courage Log • Tags: Courage Stories, couragestories, featured, living courageously, Nelly Kuria, Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories, Stories Of Courage, you are a story

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Thuli Mazwi: Surviving childhood sexual abuse

January 25, 2017 by couragestories

Hello! My name is Thuli Mazwi. I want to share my story to help shake the stigma associated with sexual abuse victims and mental health issues.  Eventually, my mind rebelled against me, and I was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), extreme anxiety and depression. I didn’t know what depression felt like, what anxiety felt like. I thought I could somehow snap out of whatever I was struggling with. I thought with a little more effort I could get better. When […]

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Categories: The Courage Log • Tags: Courage Stories, couragestories, depression, living courageously, mental health, Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories, rape, sexual assault, Thuli Mazwi, you are a story

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#HealthCrisisKe: Doctors share their side of the story

January 17, 2017 by couragestories

(Editorial foreword: Marcus Olang’) Kenya is in crisis.  At the moment, headlines and certain interests seem to reduce the heart of the current health sector paralysis to being a simple matter of salaries. This couldn’t be farther from the truth, if the stories shared by doctors across the country are anything to go by. A hashtag emerged on the 16th of January, in what appeared to be an attempt to paint all doctors as callous and incompetent. Kenyan doctors, however, […]

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Categories: The Courage Log • Tags: #healthcrisiske, #lipakamatender, #mybaddoctorexperience, Courage Stories, couragestories, health crisis, living courageously, Ordinary People Extraordinary Stories, Stories Of Courage

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