Médecins Sans Frontières - 5000 Children of Adele (EN)

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF228089

Date taken / Date Recorded 27/03/2018 12:00 AM

Country Central African Republic

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Marta Soszynska

Copyright Marta Soszynska/MSF

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Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 3m10s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 350.66 MB

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Adele’s 5000 children

My name is Adele Yazando Priska
I am a midwife at Castors Hospital.

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This is the biggest maternity ward in the Central African Republic

The country has one of the worst maternal and child mortality rates in the world

We are really doing important work at Castors

Just to save the lives
of the people who suffer

The lives of children and their mothers.

A mother can have 7 to 10 children

She doesn’t have enough money
to pay for prenatal care

Nor the means to take care
of her and her baby´s health

Because of this we receive them
with complications

We only just saved this woman
If she hadn’t come in time we would have lost her.

We also receive cases
of abortions with complications

Girls generally hide
and perform them with their own methods

It´s really sad…

Often we manage to save their lives,

but for some we do everything to help,

but we don’t manage and they die.

You cannot walk
Your legs are tired

Didn’t you want to eat your breakfast ?

You see,

as we are working
we hear gunshots

Again, again, again

The helicopters start flying around

Go on, harder darling!

So we are really stressed,
even doing our work is stressful.

But the work of a midwife
is a vocation,

we are really determined to do it.

Because there is no question
of only saving our lives

and leaving others to die.

Now in the Central African Republic
we talk about 50-50

It means that there should be equality
between men and women.

Like me, I work,

I don’t need to wait
for my husband to give me money

to take care of my home.

I work well for the Central African people.

This job is really important to me.

I am really glad because
I have been able to save quite a few lives.
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Adele estimates that she has helped to deliver more than 5000 children