SCA woman uses her umbrella to protect herself from scorching sun during a dry season in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia. Although Ethiopia offers free, universal primary health care, many women in rural Ethiopia have to walk long distances in order to access maternal health care. Only 10% of women give birth with a qualified health worker present. A richer woman is over 20 times more likely than a poorer woman to have skilled birth attendance, and a woman living in an urban area is more than ten times more likely to do so than a woman in a rural area.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
ETHIOPIA_SCreport_25Feb2014Tef, traditional Ethiopian grain, in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC11Tef, traditional Ethiopian grain, is being separated from husk by oxen in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
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SC4Asamenech, 18, engages in daily choir at her home in Chelchele Village in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Asamenech, who has never been to school, was arranged to be married at 11 years old. She lost her first baby at birth en route to her parents home. She lost her 2nd child 7 months later.
On having her 3rd baby, she decided to visit the government health facility, which is supported by Save the Children - from the early stages of her pregnancy. Her baby girl, Sumeya, was delivered safely and is now 10 months old.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC22Asamenech, 18, takes care of her daugher at her home in Chelchele Village in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Asamenech, who has never been to school, was arranged to be married at 11 years old. She lost her first baby at birth en route to her parents home. She lost her 2nd child 7 months later.
On having her 3rd baby, she decided to visit the government health facility, which is supported by Save the Children - from the early stages of her pregnancy. Her baby girl, Sumeya, was delivered safely and is now 10 months old.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC6Asamenech, 18, right and her family members sing in daily choir at her home in Chelchele Village in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Asamenech, who has never been to school, was married at 11 years in an arranged marriage. She lost her first baby at birth en route to her parents home. She lost her second child seven months later.
During her third pregnancy, she decided to visit a government health facility, which is supported by Save the Children - from the early stages of her pregnancy. Her baby girl, Sumeya, was delivered safely and is now 10 months old.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC3Family members of Asamenech, 18, greet each other in Chelchele Village in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Asamenech, who has never been to school, was arranged to be married at 11 years old. She lost her first baby at birth en route to her parents home. She lost her 2nd child 7 months later.
On having her 3rd baby, she decided to visit the government health facility, which is supported by Save the Children - from the early stages of her pregnancy. Her baby girl, Sumeya, was delivered safely and is now 10 months old.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC5Bahirnesh, 43, gives midwifery training session at her home in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Bahirnesh, a farmer, traditional birth attendant and community health promoter and mother of four, has worked as a midwife for 18 years. She first started practicing midwifery in her village without training and used to carry out harmful practices. But after being trained by Save the Children in 2002, she now trains midwives, and currently has 35 students.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC2Bahirnesh, 43, shares bread during a midwifery training session at her home in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia in February 2014.
Bahirnesh, a farmer, traditional birth attendant and community health promoter and mother of four, has worked as a midwife for 18 years. She first started practicing midwifery in her village without training and used to carry out harmful practices. But after being trained by Save the Children in 2002, she now trains midwives, and currently has 35 students.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC7Bahirnesh, 43, at her home in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Bahirnesh, a farmer, traditional birth attendant and community health promoter and mother of four, has worked as a midwife for 18 years. She first started practicing midwifery in her village without training and used to carry out harmful practices. But after being trained by Save the Children in 2002, she now trains midwives, and currently has 35 students.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC14A man tends his oxen in Kelella in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC19Patients wait to be treated at Dessie Referral Hospital in the city of Dessie in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC17Zaineb Nuru and her newborn baby girl are looked after by her relatives at Dessie Referral Hospital in the city of Dessie in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC16A newborn baby girl is comforted by her mother Zaineb Nuru at Dessie Referral Hospital in the city of Dessie in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC20A newborn being tended to by a nurse at ICU for newborns at Dessie Referral Hospital in the city of Dessie in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC15An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for newborns is heated by an electric radiator at Dessie Referral Hospital in the city of Dessie in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC8Gashaw Geleta, 24, male midwife nurse, attends Mulu Ali, at Kelalla Health Clinic in Kelalla in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
The clinic, which is supported by Save the Children, treats 37,000 people in 7 districts, of which 1,078 are mothers. There is only only one midwife to 20,000 mothers, who delivers 25 babies a month. The clinic has no doctor and practices basic health care.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
SC13Patients family members at Kelalla Health Clinic in Kelalla in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
The clinic, which is supported by Save the Children, treats 37,000 people in 7 districts, of which 1,078 are mothers. Gashaw Geleta is the only midwife to 20,000 mothers, and delivers 25 babies a month. The clinic has no doctor and practices basic health care.
Photo: Jiro Ose / Save the Children
Although Ethiopia offers free, universal primary health care, many women in rural Ethiopia have to walk long distances in order to access maternal health care.
Only 10% of women give birth with a qualified health worker present. A richer woman is over 20 times more likely than a poorer woman to have skilled birth attendance, and a woman living in an urban area is more than ten times more likely to do so than a woman in a rural area.