Born, brought up and educated in Beijing, Lu Wei has since worked all around the world on UNICEF health programs. Lu, now the director of UNICEF Ethiopia's health program, sat down with China Daily to tell her life story and explain why it's important for China to be supporting health care in Africa.

Related story: A mission to help Africa's children

Part 1: Food crisis in the horn of Africa
Part 2: China & African Drought: Ali's story

Slideshow: A mission to help Africa's children

By D J Clark
Producer: Flora Yue

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About D J Clark

D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is the Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.