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The Migrant Nurse
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The Migrant Nurse
Agnes Naigaga, 53, stands in a boat at Ripon landing site on Lake Victoria in Jinja, Uganda at the spot where her clinic used to stand. The only medical person at the site, Naigaga moved here from Butalejja in 1997. Flooding has since forced her to shift location of the clinic three times. Due to uncertainty about how much further the water might rise, Agnes’ clinic is now a temporary structure, mainly built of wood and old iron sheets from within the community. It is predicted that the lake’s water level is likely to keep rising throughout 2021 due to increased rainfall and a spike in runoff into the rivers and streams that feed the lake.