Women in a remote area of Kenya travel great distances — sometimes on foot, sometimes with small children — for surgery to repair obstetrical injuries and for treatment of a neglected tropical disease endemic to Baringo County.

Northeastern students Abigail Binkley and Abigail Williams spent their fall semester in Kenya on co-ops that explored the ways education and culture can help prevent the medical crises from occurring in the first place.

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