Mulikat Okanlawan works as a hygiene officer on the Sokoto Noma Kids’s Hospital within the northern nook of Nigeria.
“I used to cry on daily basis. I didn’t affiliate with anybody because of the stigma. I used to be alone,” Mulikat remembers. “However after I used to be handled right here, every thing modified. I started to admire myself. I started to narrate to different folks. I continued my education. I started to do every thing that I couldn’t do earlier than.”
Having subsequently accomplished her tertiary training on the native Gwadabawa Faculty of Well being Know-how, Mulikat was supplied her present job at Sokoto Noma Kids’s Hospital, the place she additionally offers psychosocial help to noma sufferers and acts as an advocate.
“My objective is to encourage folks,” she says. “I wish to share my story with all noma sufferers: There’s nonetheless life after Noma. When there may be life, there may be hope.”