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People Fixing The World: Saving mums and their unborn babies

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Saving mums and their unborn babies

22/12/2020 GMT

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Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives

Women in a village in Northern Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives.

Women in a village in Northern Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives.
 
They decided to act when they saw mums-to-be and their unborn babies dying in childbirth because they couldn’t get to hospital in time.
 
Their solution also inspired the state government to help thousands of other women. 
 
Produced and presented by Bara’atu Ibrahim

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