At a midwife meeting in the village of Betouze. These midwives are trained by the foundation, but are currently working in a village without a Community Health Agent. The woman on the far right, Yolonne, told a story about a baby she helped to deliver in late August. When she realized that she couldn’t see the head of the baby, she called the peer health educator in the village (again, there was no Health Agent to call), who in turn called the midwife nurse at the foundation, who in turn called the foundation’s ambulance. They picked the woman up in her home, rushed her the hour drive to the hospital in Jèrèmie, and delivered two children by C-section. The midwife looked at me, and to make sure I understood, repeated this sentence in very slow Creole: “If there hadn’t been an ambulance, all three of them would have died.”
