Reaching a remote gold mining community in Suriname with COVID-19 testing
Iramar do Socorro remembers March 2020 vividly. “It was frightening,” she says. “We stayed imprisoned, in our homes, we couldn’t leave. We were afraid.” That feeling of dread and that sense of fear as COVID-19 spread wasn’t unique to Socorro. It was global. But Socorro and her community were faced with a unique predicament. She lives in a remote…