The Wider Image: Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages
Aziza Rahimi, 35, who lost her son at birth, walks inside her house in Foladi Valley in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023. Rahimi stumbled while bleeding for two hours to her in-laws' house after her husband was unable to find a car or ambulance to take them to hospital, she gave birth but the baby died shortly after. "It was too hard for me when I lost my baby, as a mother I nurtured the baby in my womb for 9 months but then I lost him, it is too painful," she said. REUTERS/Ali Khara SEARCH "KHARA MIDWIVES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.