trains a group known as volunteer sister friends, which supports new moms. thousands of children had been born into kathryn hall-trujillo's sisterhood. >> african-american babies die two to four times the rate of other babies. as a public health administrator i use the words infant mortality every day, but until i held that baby in my arms, i never realized that that meant counting dead babies. my name is kathryn hall-trujillo, and i remind women they're really sisters. and can help each other have healthier babies. what we're saying is that you don't have to have this by yourself. >> the birth -- takes regular women in the community like me to work closely with the little sisters throughout their pregnancy. and after they have the baby.