HEALING. Zawadi’s story.

What happens when a young woman faces serious complications during labour in a remote corner of war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo? This film follows Sam Perkins, the Médecins Sans Frontières midwife whose team receive the emergency call to bring Zawadi for treatment at the only free maternity hospital for miles. Lack of access to health care in the DRC is a major cause of death amongst women and children under five.

A duckrabbit production.

Photography: Yasuyoshi Chiba

Production: Benjamin Chesterton, Robin Meldrum, Peter Rudge.

 
 

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  • Was moved by your video for the WorldFish Center. I loved the phrase “No extra cost. Just extra care”. It really brings out the practical impact the CGIAR’s work has, work which often people see as a bunch of white-coated guys doing research in a lab, rather than understanding the actual change we make for people. The case of Bangladesh was well chosen. In many areas, I saw people looking at water as a curse there (limited land to grow, live, difficult transport, constant threat of flooding, raising sea levels, salination). Your video showed how this can be turned around, using water to their advantage. Peter Casier
    CGIAR
  • I’ve had rave reviews on the Bangladesh photofilm. Fantastic – great – wonderful – very well done – excellent – a whole host of adjectives and we haven’t even released it outside of WorldFish and the donor yet! Fiona Chandler, Director of Communications
    World Fish Center