Around the globe, individuals and organizations are fighting against the odds to advance maternal health for some of the world’s most marginalized people. In 2020, they do this work in the midst of a pandemic and global political uncertainty.
Our new film series, Delivering Hope: Maternal Health Heroes, takes you on a journey to meet these incredible heroes, each with a powerful story to tell.
Around the globe, individuals and organizations are fighting against the odds to advance maternal health for some of the world’s most marginalized people. In 2020, they do this work in the midst of a pandemic and global political uncertainty.
Our new film series, Delivering Hope: Maternal Health Heroes, takes you on a journey to meet these incredible heroes, each with a powerful story to tell.
Every day, we are amazed by the strong, compassionate and courageous health workers who keep mothers, babies and families safe.
They are the midwives, community leaders, lawyers, activists, and mothers whose commitment and care is boundless. They are the lifeblood of the global maternal health and birth justice movements, and these are their stories of power, perseverance, and, above all else, hope.
In Guatemala, Indigenous Mayan women are twice as likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications than non-Indigenous women. Meet two incredible comadronas (traditional Indigenous midwives) caring for Mam-speaking mothers.
India’s constitution guarantees the right to health, sanitation and nutrition services, and yet many women rarely benefit from these services. In the northeastern tip of India, courageous community activists are fighting to ensure the women in their communities receive the care they’re entitled to.
This is Bangladesh, where just over half of all births (59%) are attended by a skilled care provider. Here, meet two incredible midwives driven to elevate this lifesaving profession in their country, and a resilient Rohingya mother of three starting a new life with her family in Cox’s Bazaar.
She misses her parents more than anything. But, this rural community far from home needed a midwife. Today, the birth center she lives in and runs serves 50,000 people. And she's starting to realize: to fix the problems at hand, she'll need to start with solutions at the community level.
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