fulfill their dreams and hopefully get a decent job in the future. giving them an opportunity and helping them fulfilling their dreams, that s, for me, more rewarding than other things. efren says his cnn hero colleagues have also stayed close. x minus 1 equals zero. when a typhoon decimated areas in 2013, causing widespread destruction, efren mobilized his team to help in one of the hardest hit areas. he also issued a rallying cry to his fellow cnn heros. i contacted all my co-honorees. they responded. henley was there. he was able to bring water filters to each community. robin lim was there, also, to help pregnant women. when the three of us met
we believe it is a human right to have respectful care, prenatal care, birth services, postpartum care. in bali, where robin has lived more than 20 years, she s a mainstay in the villages and looks forward to continuing her work around the world. well, i m turning 60 this november. i ve grown a little bit older. i hope i ve grown wiser. we have a saying, our job is to take care of the least, the lost and the last. and that s our vision and mission. is to take care of the people no one wants to care for. i m so blessed to walk down the street and see the faces of these kids. most of them, i ve seen them arrive into this world. and when they run up to me and hug me, just makes life worth living. robin s commitment to
fund the bumi sehat foundation lab. we have a full lap, something we didn t have in 2011. an on-site facility at robin s clinic. now the team can get test results quickly and give mother with hiv anti-retroviral medication to reduce the risk of infecting their babies. you re the one that kept me up all night, yes. i think that for me, knowing that we have friends out there that will do anything for us when we re in need, and since we ve had our lab, we recently have nine mothers who are hiv positive that are all on anti-retrovirals. i do not have hiv. i am so blessed. i can tell you that that medicine saves lives. today, there are three bumi sehat clinics, two in indonesia and one in the philippines with midwives staffed year round. robin offers training and scholarships and head been able to expand has been able to expand her educational programs. we travel to other islands in
health care to women in indonesia. since being named a hero, thousands more babies have entered the world safely thanks robin and her bumi sehat foundation. in bali where her main clinic is located, robin is always ready 24/7 for the ethics delivery. mothers sometimes come by boat, ferry, and then they have to find a ride on a motorcycle in the rain to get here in the middle of the night. and then when they get here, they get a hug. they get midwives ready 24/7 to care for them. sometimes in the middle of the night we re exhausted, and another motorcycle comes, another mother in labor. we start over again. after being selected 2011 s cnn hero of the year, robin used her prize money and international recognition to launch fund-raising for a clinic she d long dreamed of. today that dream is a reality. a new community health and childcare clinic where robin and
is huge. so i sat down and i sat at my computer. i wrote an e-mail to christy turlington burns. i didn t know what to do, you know. her response, by the next day, was you need a lab. she said, okay, every mother counts. we ll finance it. christy turlington burns and her non-profit, every mother counts, along with an international community of supporters, teamed up to fund the memorial lab. we have a full lab now. something we did not have in 2011. an on site facility at robin s clinic. now, robin and her team can get test results quickly and give mothers with hiv medication to reduce the risk of infecting their babies. you re the one that kept me up all night, yes. i think for me, knowing that we have friends out there that will do anything for us when we re in need, and since we ve had our lab, we recently have nine