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Despite coming from vastly different beginnings one of us comes from a fishing district in Malawi with one of the country’s highest adolescent pregnancy rates, the other grew up in West Germany during the height of the women’s movement we have both seen the transformative impact of empowering women and girls. What also unites us is the same sense of urgency for more to be done faster and at a big.
Despite coming from vastly different beginnings one of us comes from a fishing district in Malawi with one of the country’s highest adolescent pregnancy rates, the other grew up in West Germany during the height of the women’s movement we have both seen the transformative impact of empowering women and girls. What also unites us is the same sense of urgency for more to be done faster and at a big.
Globally, a woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth and a child or youth dies every 4.4 seconds. Most of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries with Sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of this tragedy. Behind these statistics, are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, friends that I have seen die.
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