When Isatu Timbo, a registered nurse, returned to the Sierra Leone village where she'd grown up, she encountered something that horrified her. She examined an expectant mother, only to find that the baby had died inside her uterus without her knowing. The situation was urgent, and no medical care was available nearby. Timbo gave her driver $300 to drive the woman to the nearest hospital, about 30 minutes away. The woman died on the way there. Horrified, Timbo paid for her funeral expenses. During the same visit, another expectant mother experienced complications during labor and was transported by bike to find health care. She fell off the bike, and both she and the baby died. "I can't let that happen again. I can't," Timbo said. "I cannot just sit down and see these things happening, while I have the means here in America" to help prevent them. Timbo grew up in the village of Royanka, near Freetown, Sierra Leone...
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