By Rotary International From the August 2015 issue of The Rotarian
The six-day-old baby shuddered with convulsions. Her mother, Rosa, had given birth at home and cut her daughter’s umbilical cord with what she could find – a sharp piece of metal. When the newborn contracted tetanus, Rosa walked miles to reach a clinic. That’s where Caryl Stern encountered the pair. Stern was on a field visit with UNICEF in Sierra Leone and stayed with Rosa, trying to comfort her, until the child died. The image of the baby in pain, hypersensitive to light and sound, stayed with Stern as she got off the plane in New York and headed… …read more
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