Resilience, Hope, and Mercy

The doctors thought she had only 72 hours to live. Born almost eight weeks premature, anemic, and weighing a mere 1.8 kilos, Mercy Lung’aho was on pace to become an infant mortality statistic.

Like many others, the regional hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, had few incubators to spare.

“But [the doctors] said, okay, let’s give her a shot,” Lung’aho says. “There was a nurse who would come in and just tell me, ‘Try, Gogo, try.’ Gogo in her mother tongue is ‘grandmother.’ ‘We need you to just make it to t…