Why Poverty

Welcome to the world

Four Born Every Second

Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?

Every year 130 million babies are born. Their life chances are a lottery depending on where they are born.

In the film, Hill travels to the USA, Cambodia and Sierra Leone to follow three women through labour and birth

Sierre Leone

Why do babies and mothers die here in such huge numbers?

The answer is simple, it’s not because African women are more susceptible to birth complications than other women, it’s not because they are inherently more unhealthy, it’s simply because of a lack of resources.

Sierra Leone is the most difficult place to mothers to give birth

The main cause of maternal and child mortality is the lack of access to medical care

Sierra Leone is not poor

Sharing resources

Clinic in Sierra Leone

There’s a few doctors and a few clinics that can provide a proper service

Doctors Without Borders

The hospital deals only in emergency childbirth cases and they have expert obstetricians who spend their days saving lives.

Ambulance

Only atends critical cases

The baby died before the arrived to the hospital

Use songs to teach to mothers

like to think that one of the things we are doing here is showing a mode that can help to reduce the maternal mortality by providing clinics, ambulances services, hospital open 24 hours with someone that covers the cesarea area

1.7 euro per person

United States

Family that is homeless with two children, a pregnant mother and a jobless father

HPP program – Homeless prenatal program

Helps homeless family are people at risk of homelessness

“Probably I'm living better, than half of my family”

“I’m grateful with what we have even if this room resembles a jail cell”

There’s an enormous gap between the ones that have and the ones than don't have.

CAMBODIA

"He's the most amazing 12-year-old kid I've ever met“- Brian Hill

Pisey who helps support his pregnant mother and little sister by scavenging the streets of Cambodia.

He has to work in order to help his mother, she has AIDS

Sells everything that collect, to buy her mother medicine and to help his family

Pisey and his mother found this little girl alone and adopted her

Shamran 5 years old

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