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“I fainted and got to know from my family I gave birth to a son in ambulance...My heart gives credit to the READ Jhuwani Center because without the ambulance, I would never have lived,” says 33-year-old Babita who almost died during childbirth three years ago.
In this remote farming community, people were dying by the dozens – not just in childbirth, but in auto accidents, pesticide poisonings, and other farming incidents. So with seed money from READ Global, the community made its choice: to run a much-needed, for-profit, ambulance business. Since 2000, some 4,300 people have benefited — 53% are women, and 14 newborns found life in the back of this ambulance.
Profits from this ambulance service help to financially sustain the READ Community Library and Resource Center here in Jhuwani Village, Nepal.
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Babita and her son
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