CHARITY BY NAME AND NATURE: MALAWI'S FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE EXTRAORDINARY MIDWIFE

Charity Salima, right, with her recent patient Glory Honde and her three-month-daughter [Rabson Kondowe/Al Jazeera]

Charity Salima came out of retirement as a midwife to independently help women with poor access to care deliver safely.

 

By Rabson Kondowe

Lilongwe, Malawi

IT is a busy mid-morning at Achikondi Women's Clinic in Area 23, a township in Malawi's capital city Lilongwe, and Glory Honde is holding her healthy baby girl in a blanket....READ MORE