Guinea: Life on the edge of poverty

It is a country where taxi drivers gamble with death on treacherous roads, rushing life-saving medicines to patients waiting hundreds of miles away. Yet even when the drugs arrive, a cruel question remains: will the sick be able to afford them? South of Senegal, in West Africa, lies a nation whose poverty starkly contrasts with the rich natural and mineral resources buried beneath its soil. Our journey leads us into the heart of Guinea-Conakry, where diseases long eliminated elsewhere—such as polio and rabies—still pose a serious threat. We enter a hospital serving more than 200,000 people without electricity, follow a nurse who travels 75 kilometers in a fragile ambulance to reach her patients, and meet children as young as six forced into labor by desperate circumstances. Here, survival is not a choice—it is a daily battle.