This is my last chance. How can we solve this problem do we need new laws or artificial organs the only alternative. Florence gomez is young and might look healthy but she faces big physical challenges a genetic disorder means that her kidneys barely function the 23 year old is only able to work part time. Then dont feel anguished saying im a lot more restricted when it comes to certain things. And i have to learn not to allow myself to be defined by this thing on this is after the thing i have to just carry on as most of us light up my. Dialysis is her only chance of survival at the moment she has to go to hospital in the swiss canton of 3 times a week each dialysis session lasts at least 4 hours. Her mother and her brother are unable to donate one of their kidneys to her because they have the same genetic disorder our kidneys filter toxins and waste out of the body and maintain our fluid balance florence gomezs body is unable to perform these functions. During dialysis a machine clea
VOA Wins Military Reporters and Editors Association Award
May 03, 2021
Gabon is home to more than half of the forest elephants in Africa, where park rangers fight poaching.
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Voice of America’s Pentagon correspondent, Carla Babb, together with Betty Ayoub, Ricci Shryock, Tatiana Mossot and Laurence Gomez of the VOA Africa division and Elizabeth Arrott of the VOA News Center, won the 2021 Military Reporters and Editors Association award for best journalism in the Television International or Domestic - Large Market category for “VOA Special Report: Saving Gabon’s Forest Elephants.” The VOA News Center and Africa Division collaborated on the project.