Wah waaaah. Welp, from the title of this post, you have quickly realized that this topic is not a super happy one. And it shouldn't be. It's a serious issue in the world and one which I recently studied for some of my training with
Maryknoll. It's always easy to avoid a not-so-fun conversation but don't. Not this time at least.
To begin, my amazing partner, Melissa, helped us to pick this topic by voicing her experience with
Half the Sky, a documentary centered on women's issues worldwide, one of which is
maternal mortality. We started reading up on the topic through various nonprofits' websites, including
Every Mother Counts, as well as the
UN's Population Fund. Here are just five of the facts we found that knocked me off my feet: