These portraits were taken during a visit from the coordinator of the Guinea Worm eradication program for the Chadian Ministry of Health, along with a senior official who had traveled to Danamadji to review the work being done in the zone and meet with the team on the ground. It was a reminder that the work we were doing each day in those villages was part of something much larger, a national effort that stretched from the most remote corners of the country all the way to the halls of government in N'Djamena.

The remaining portraits are of the people I worked alongside every single day. They were the ones driving out before dawn, walking into villages in the midday heat, earning the trust of communities, and doing the quiet and unglamorous work that eradicating a disease actually requires. I still feel that whatever progress was made in that zone was made chiefly by them, I was just lucky enough to work alongside them.