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Community Health Volunteers Saving Lives

In Nepal, female community health volunteers are getting the training to save lives of mothers and children.

Nepal's mother and child mortality rates are among the highest in the world. Now, women are training each other as community health volunteers to save the lives of mothers and children in their villages.

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