The circumstances in which children are born vary greatly around the world, and midwives play a key role in this.
CARE Germany approached Fairpicture to work with visual creators from our network to follow and portray midwives in Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Cambodia and Ukraine to promote understanding of the importance of midwives to pregnant women, newborns and families from pregnancy to birth and the postnatal period.
The aim was to develop a website feature and a photo exhibition in Berlin where CARE Germany would showcase these portraits to inform and encourage participation.
Client
CARE Germany
Visual Creator
Katya Moskalyuk Keren Lasme Narin Saobo
Theme
Midwives worldwide
Location
Dobroslav (UKR) Béoumi (CDI) Ratanakiri (CAM) Terego (UGA)
Date
Aug. 1, 2023
Midwives are an essential part of a safe birth. They provide expectant mothers with medical support, stability and security. They support them before, during and after the birth. They are often more than just medical staff; midwives are caregivers, educators and confidants.
At the same time there is a shortage of around 900,000 midwives worldwide to meet existing needs. In a new specialist study, CARE uses the example of midwives from this project to show how they, as agents of change, compensate for resource-poor and sometimes dysfunctional systems on a daily basis through their personal commitment.
The stories portray midwives from Côte d'Ivoire, Cambodia, Uganda & Ukraine (with visual creators from Fairpicture) as well as from Iraq and Germany. Six women, six countries, six places where life begins. Each of the six women has her own personal story. What unites the women is their love for their profession and their motivation to support mothers and children during childbirth.
The exhibition "Committed to life - midwives worldwide" was presented for the first time on November 15, 2023 at the Alte Münze, Berlin. Besides CARE Germany created an elaborated multimedia section on their website with the stories and visual material of the midwives taken by the four visual creators of Fairpicture. The photographs, video interviews and written stories impressively show the circumstances under which the women work, the obstacles they face and how much passion they bring to their profession - their vocation.
It was an honour for Fairpicture to contribute the visual material for this important topic through its dedicated network of visual creators and to work closely with CARE Germany on the impressive outcome.
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Care Germany worked with visual creators to portray midwives in Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Cambodia and Ukraine.
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