Giving Birth in a Graveyard
Category: IMPACT
Bent over a wood-fired oven, drying the fish her husband caught yesterday, 29-year-old Leticia Sam blinks the smoke from her eyes, one hand stoking the fire, the other holding her swollen belly. Expecting her fourth baby, Leticia lives atop an old graveyard piled with trash, strewn with crumbling cinderblock homes.
By Suzanne Skees, ContributorNonprofit director/writer, 2014-08-06