Martins Ifijeh was just 10 when his mother, Nneoma, bled to death in their rural home in Aninri, Enugu State, while trying to give birth. With no nearby hospital equipped to save her life, the agony of watching his mother die with a child made Martins—now in senior secondary school—vow to become a doctor. But that ambition may be short-circuited.
At Community Secondary School in Ndeaboh, Martins spends his days in classrooms without electricity. The science laboratories he needs to prepare for medical school sit idle, dark, and literally pow
