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International Day of the Midwife
Njideka is a midwife in northern Nigeria – one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. Here, one in 23 women die in childbirth and one in ten newborns do not survive.
Background
In Spring 2012, the British Government launched a new scheme – Women for Health – to support 7,000 girls and women to train as health workers in northern Nigeria by 2016. The new skills they learn will help save the lives of thousands of mums, babies and children.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/ midwives-in-nigeria
Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development
International Day of the Midwife
Njideka is a midwife in northern Nigeria – one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. Here, one in 23 women die in childbirth and one in ten newborns do not survive.
Background
In Spring 2012, the British Government launched a new scheme – Women for Health – to support 7,000 girls and women to train as health workers in northern Nigeria by 2016. The new skills they learn will help save the lives of thousands of mums, babies and children.
Find out more at www.dfid.gov.uk/ midwives-in-nigeria
Picture: Lindsay Mgbor/Department for International Development