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Articles by Sharon Walls
The Daughters' Letter
1 0 Sharon Walls / Sunday, September 6, 2026 / Categories: Modern Slavery, Correspondent This was not a small moment. It was a quiet act of courage. For generations, early marriage has shaped the lives of girls in many Nepali communities. It is often seen as the expected path, woven into family life and long-held tradition. To question it is not simple. To speak against it takes courage. Yet here, these girls chose to do exactly that. The banner became a public letter.
Local Knowledge That Grows
2 0 Olivia Bird, Sharon Walls / Thursday, September 3, 2026 / Categories: Farming and Enterprise, Correspondent Across the Pacific, local partners share practical farming knowledge that helps families grow food, strengthen incomes and pass skills on. In a few days, the answer will be clear. Some seeds will sprout. Others will not. It’s a simple test, but one that could save farmers months of wasted effort and improve the success of their harvests.
Jeero's story: When Hope Took a Seat
1 0 Sharon Walls / Wednesday, August 19, 2026 / Categories: Sponsorship, Correspondent When teachers came looking for Ronald Jeero (known to everyone as Jeero), they often found his seat empty. Few things mattered to him more than learning, but each time school fees went unpaid he was sent home. "I really loved school," Jeero says.
When a Mother Chooses Hope
2 0 How the courage of one Ethiopian mum is shaping her daughter’s future It's more than a birthday. It's a celebration of survival There’s excitement in the air in Tirunesh’s small home in Woliso, Ethiopia. Family and neighbours have gathered to celebrate her daughter Ididiya’s first birthday. It’s a survival milestone, a moment filled with deep joy. The table is carefully prepared. Fruit, small treats, and sweet-scented kineto drinks are arranged with care and intention.
Sharon Walls: AG Taylor puts the truth in a chokehold
By SHARON WALLS “The rule of law doesn’t work unless it applies to all of us.” That was the ironic, and frankly hypocritical, headline chosen by Attorney General Treg Taylor in Must Read Alaska. Treg Taylor: The rule of law doesn’t work unless it applies to all of us His article was not a defense of equal justice, but rather an attempt to discredit a man he dismissed as a “progressive activist, associated with the California Innocence Project.” But what exactly made him “progressive”?
The Reunion - 30 years later
In the early morning sun, Aly stood on the gangway of the hospital ship Global Mercy in Freetown Sierra Leone, straining for a first glimpse of the approaching vehicle. Aly had been waiting for three decades for this moment; holding a life-impacting event close to her heart, and never quite believing that she and Catherine would ever meet again.
The next chapter: the Global Mercy in Sierra Leone
Dr Sandra Lako’s childhood was anything but normal. Growing up on board the floating hospitals of Mercy Ships, she was just a teenager when she first sailed into Sierra Leone. Little did she know this was a country that would define the course of her life. There, Sandra left the hospital ship to accompany a medical team as they set up a clinic in a village outside of Freetown, tending to a measles outbreak. Sandra spent the week sitting with mothers who were bringing their sick children for care.
Lives transformed by Mercy Ships’ surgical care
Maggie, aged 35, had lived her whole life with a severe facial disfiguration, caused by a flesh-eating disease she contracted as a baby. The Senegal woman has now undergone life-changing facial reconstruction surgery — rebuilding her nose and one side of her face — aboard a Mercy Ships floating hospital. Maggie is one of the patients cared for by Auckland volunteer nurse Julie Murphy in her latest tour of duty for Mercy Ships, in Senegal, West Africa.
Hospitalship school teacher
Episode 1: The Power of Yes and No  The hospital ship arrives in port Cotonou, Benin. The volunteer medics on board commence screening, surgeries are planned and the first patients begin treatment. Nate and the team face mounting unrest in the crowd of thousands outside the screening centre and life or death decisions for the hopefuls inside.
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