A demostration of a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India.
May 18, 2012 by Sita Shankar Wunnava
The woman in the green sari leans over the game of Snakes and Ladders and throws the dice. The women around her groan as she reads the words on the square where she lands.
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Members of a farmers cooperative gather together outside the organization's headquarters in Musaza Village, Rwanda.
May 18, 2012 by Sam Dryden
The challenges smallholder farmers in the developing world face are considerable yet not insurmountable.
Math teacher Doris Zuniz
May 11, 2012 by Chelsea Clinton
I hope someday to have students feel about me the way I feel about Mrs. Mitchell!
May 21, 2012 / Sharon D’Agostino
Riding in a van several hours beyond Nairobi, I noticed a roadside sign for a nearby hospital. For me, the word “hospital” triggers an image of a large building bustling with nurses, doctors, technicians, patients, and visitors.
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May 18, 2012 / Sita Shankar Wunnava
May 10, 2012 / Jennifer James
Despite these grim reminders that over 350,000 women die every year during childbirth there are successes and there is movement toward measurable progress to reduce the rate of maternal deaths globally.
May 10, 2012 / Catharine McKaig
Among women—young and old, those who have had many children and those who have had few or none—there is a sea-change happening. These women are expressing their desire for family planning methods.
May 02, 2012 / Kylie Hodges
In May 2009, at 26 weeks and 6 days into my pregnancy, I went to the hospital at 3 in the morning, fairly certain I was being a neurotic first time mother.