Emerging Explorer Feliciano Dos Santos uses a guitar and a
strong sense of rhythm to fight against against diseases and
speak up for clean water and sanitation in Mozambique. Dos
Santos contracted polio due to poor drinking water when he was a
little boy growing up in Niassa Province and doesn’t want other
children to endure this hardship. He stresses that the focus
should be on peoples’ vital needs, “The many challenges they
have to face, is not only access to drugs….We have to think
about basic things, people can have access to vitamins every
day, but with what kind of water will we drink these drugs?”
What projects are you working on now? Access to land and
community resources, health marketing social, home base care,
water and sanitation. What did the support from National
Geographic help you accomplish? The support gave me more access
to funds, more visibility, and all the work I do also benefited
from this support. What is one of your favorite songs that you
wrote? “Kumalembe” (Cemetery). The idea of th