A bright yellow suitcase is saving moms and babies around the world.

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It’s common to do certain things in the dark: get your snooze on, watch a movie, maybe even deliver a baby.

Deliver a … baby? In the dark? It happens.

It’s a scenario that’s almost hard to fathom, considering many of us can barely find a light switch in the dark without stubbing a toe on every piece of furniture. But as U.S.-based OB/GYN Dr. Laura Stachel discovered on a research trip in 2008, babies around the world too often are being delivered in near darkness until she found a unique way to fix it.

Check out her story in this video and then scroll down to read the whole story!

In many countries, delivering a baby in darkness isn’t what the doctor ordered but it’s what the doctor got.

Take rural Nigeria, for example, where the electricity can be extremely unreliable.

When Laura went there on her research trip, she was shocked at what she saw: nurses delivering babies at night, using lanterns and flashlights to see. Surgeons working in near darkness, and patients needing life-saving procedures but getting turned away because of the dark conditions.

As you can imagine, the results were often tragic.


Some of our world’s biggest problems can feel too complex and difficult to fix. Laura and the We Care Solar team are showing why that’s not always the case.

Her simple fix is impacting maternal mortality rates around the world in the best way possible, and there is much more good to come.

She’s a hero, shining bright.

Read more: http://www.upworthy.com/a-bright-yellow-suitcase-is-saving-moms-and-babies-around-the-world?c=tpstream

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