Malawian Nurses At Home
Cities are much livelier and more appealing places than Malawi's remote rural areas, so nurses tend to prefer working there. To lure them away from urban areas, rural hospitals offer amenities like subsidized housing. These communities of nurses and their families give a snapshot of reasonably comfortable middle-class life in one of Africa's poorest countries'a striking contrast to the images of death, disease and despair that lead many Westerners to think that's all there is to Africa
