DFID - UK Department for International Development
A girl’s dream
Satara is training to be a midwife. But her situation is unusual – many girls do not complete secondary school and often marry very young. Her dream is for girls in her community "to have the opportunity to come to my school so that they too will have the knowledge of what I'm learning now."
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
A girl’s dream
Satara is training to be a midwife. But her situation is unusual – many girls do not complete secondary school and often marry very young. Her dream is for girls in her community "to have the opportunity to come to my school so that they too will have the knowledge of what I'm learning now."
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