There is an urgent call from the third world for trained midwives. Midwifery education is a life saving solution. That in this day and age one million women world wide should die from preventable causes while trying to perform their God-given gift of bringing forth new life, is as unjust as it is cruel. Forty thousand children under the age of five die every day in developing countries from preventable or treatable causes. Over a two day period, more children die than all the Americans who died in the Vietnam war.
Diarrhea is an illness that kills three and one-half million children per year.
Five million more children die each year from diseases that could be eliminated with immunizations. One million infants die each year in the third world simply because they are bottle fed rather than breast fed. Primary health care is the focus of the future. And it works. Primary health care workers save lives with education, prevention and simple treatments.