Sarita Santoshini

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Sarita Santoshini is an independent journalist based in India. She reports on gender, social justice, and global health and development for publications like Al Jazeera English, The Fuller Project, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New Humanitarian, among others. In 2019, she was part of the IWMF Malaria No More Reporting Trip to Rwanda, and a finalist of the UK Foreign Press Association's Thomson Foundation Young Journalist award. In 2017, she received an International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowship to report on gender rights in post-conflict northern Uganda and the status of female refugees in the country. She was also the 2016 Bitch Media writing fellow in reproductive rights and justice. She has been recognized with national awards like the Population First's Laadli media awards for gender sensitivity, and the Press Institute of India and International Committee of the Red Cross’ awards on humanitarian reporting.

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Rwanda’s front line health supporters

In villages across the country, volunteer community health workers are helping educate and mobilise to save lives. Community health worker Concessa Mukeshimana attends to clients from her village, providing them with basic healthcare and support…
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Can Rwanda’s New Abortion Law Make Access Safer?

Illustration: Angela Chilufya Bethany, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, was 20 years old when she first went to a health center to get a pregnancy test. She had missed her period by…

Drama on a rainy day

We were meant to get there by 3pm but we were running a little late. We weren’t as panicked because we were on the heels of a packed bus of actors and social workers whose…

Meet the Fellow: Bianca Consunji

To report with Bianca is exhilarating. Even at the end of a long day of driving to Gisenyi, which lies at the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and back, Bianca is…