Tuesday, May 5, 2009

South Sudan


Proof that for every cloud there is a silver lining. Here is a story about progress in an area of unforgivable suffering.





"But the launch of these ambulance motorbikes in South Sudan is a serious attempt to tackle some of the world's highest rates of women dying in pregnancy.
A woman has a one-in-six chance of dying during pregnancy during the course of her lifetime in this underdeveloped region scarred by two decades of war, according to the United Nations.
A 15-year-old girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to complete school."

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