One of roughly 1,200 Black midwives practicing in the U.S., Nadia Gramby drives hundreds of miles across Alabama to bring prenatal, birth, and postpartum care directly to families in underserved communities, continuing a tradition of Black midwifery in the South.
In the Tigray region, in Ethiopia, solar energy is saving lives during complicated childbirths. From ALIMA.
For two decades, the UK-based Better Lives Foundation has run a free hospital in rural Sierra Leone, training local staff, expanding into maternal care and dentistry, and treating thousands of patients each year, at no cost to those who walk through its doors.
Save the Children has opened the first hospital dedicated to maternal and newborn care inside the world’s largest refugee camp, bringing round-the-clock emergency obstetric services to more than one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Staff at Hospitalito Atitlán prevent maternal deaths, provide specialty surgery, and offer primary care at local clinics, supported by more than $7 million in aid from Direct Relief.