“My best experience was in Burkina Faso. I went there as a student midwife to work in a local free clinic. It was the most difficult experience but also the most beautiful I have ever had. I come from a developed country and had the chance to grow up in a wonderful environment. Even though I had traveled in developing countries before, I lived 24/7 with the locals, witnessed the poverty, the difficulties they have on a daily basis, but also their strentgh facing those difficulties, because that have no choice but to live and survive. I also got the Malaria there. I was not as sick as the locals would be, because I got a preventive treatment and the symptoms were less intense. But I realised Somehow, they were happy for me to experience that, so I could realise that they are living with this threat all year long during their whole life, with the risk to die from it at any time because of the lack of money, treatment…or chance to have grown up in a developed country I will always remember all of these people I lived and worked with. Especially one of them. Every morning, she brought me breakfast at work. She had a whole family to support, she had nothing to give, yet she gave me everything. This person will always be in my heart and in my mind. This experience has been amazing professionally speaking but even more on the personal aspect.”