Valentine Benjamin (@theValentineBen) is a Nigerian travel journalist and photographer who reports on global health, social justice, politics and development in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
Catholic institutions and parishioners in Nigeria are working to prevent future floods. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria on Feb. 15 launched a tree-planting campaign in partnership with Caritas Nigeria.
Since 1992 the Carmelite Prisoners' Interest Organization, or Capio, has responded to inmates' practical and material needs while pushing for criminal justice reform in Nigeria.
"The entire community is underwater and my people are in dire need of serious interventions with relief materials," says one local leader. "But unfortunately, it seems as though the government doesn't care about us."
