Democratic Republic of Congo is ‘world’s toughest place to be a mother’

Democratic Republic of Congo is ‘world’s toughest place to be a mother’

by | published on Oct 10, 2014

As a new report from Save the Children finds that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s most difficult place to be a mother, we look at some of the challenges facing women in the country.

This article originally appeared on www.telegraph.co.uk.

According to the charity’s State of the World’s Mothers report, a woman or girl in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has a one in 30 chance of dying from maternal causes, including childbirth.

Many women are unable to reach clinics to give birth because they live so far away and cannot afford to make the journey to hospital. To keep reading please click here.

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