BBC Documentary Featuring RAISE Advocacy and Medical Advisor Wins Award
Viewers voted Grace Under Fire the fourth best BBC documentary of 2009. Grace Under Fire follows RAISE’s Dr. Grace Kodindo, who is “world renowned for her fight to stop women dying unnecessarily in pregnancy and childbirth” according to the BBC, as she travels through the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the documentary, Dr. Kodindo talks to women and men who have been affected by fighting and investigates the dire state of reproductive health services in the area.
February 12, 2010 | RAISE News