الثلاثاء، 15 مارس 2016

Secret aid worker: My child has a life-limiting illness, was I right to go back to work?

As an aid worker and mum, I felt torn balancing my maternal instincts for my family with my humanitarian principles to help those less privileged than me

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Working for a humanitarian agency, I had often imagined the challenges of having children, particularly in the precarious contexts in which I work, including Afghanistan, Gaza and Lebanon. Soon after giving birth to a girl, my husband and I joked that the biggest unanticipated difficulty was navigating hilly Middle Eastern capitals with a buggy.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1SPni8g

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