Every year in Sub-Saharan Africa, almost 200,000 women die during pregnancy or childbirth. Midwives are a solution to this tragedy. This is why AMREF launched the Stand Up for African Mothers campaign, with the aim to train 15,000 midwives in Africa.
In this 26-minute film, we take you to Senegal where you will meet four women engaged in this fight for life: Florence (a midwife trained by AMREF), Oulimata (a young student midwife), Khady (a pregnant woman) and Laura (a French fencing champion and ambassador of AMREF’s Stand Up for African Mothers campaign).