Magreth's Plan | Plan International Australia
Meet Magreth, one of our 12 #BeatTheClock champions. The clock she’s beating is the estimate from the World Economic Forum that it will take 131 years to achieve gender equality. Margreth isn’t going to wait for that.
“Often, by the time people check into a hospital, they are in advanced stages of cancer or heart disease. … If I want to be a good physician, I have to prevent these diseases from happening.”
In Tanzania, where some regions have as few as one doctor per 100,000 people, access to health care is a struggle for many. As the first woman in her community to study medicine, Magreth decided to make this problem her problem. Watch Magreth’s extraordinary story – and discover how the former Plan International sponsored child turned intention into action.
Read Magreth’s story, and profiles on our other #BeatTheClock champions, at https://www.plan.org.au/news/beat-the...
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