Words cannot describe how harrowing I just found this Washington Post multimedia piece on the poor maternal and child mortality rates in Sierra Leone. It’s powerful stuff…and the production is measured and doesn’t hammer you over the head with the awfulness of the situation. And there’s no doubt that it’s awful. I have to say that for me personally, this kind of approach would work well as an NGO fundraising piece…it smacks me in the stomach more than that recent MSF clip
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Thanks for that Ciara … I remember seeing those pieces when they first came out … utterly devastating … and you are so right they totally bring home the truth about infant mortality … would have been good to see the desperation balanced with what can go right …
[...] From the Washington Post, I learned that in Sierra Leone, one in eight women die in childbirth (HT: duckrabbit). A couple of weeks ago, I learned something new from Karen Grepin’s post highlighting the [...]