There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

There's a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.