Summary Pregnancy and childbirth are among the major threats to the life and health of young women in Tanzania. They suffer due to the shortage of trained medical personnel that would be capable of delivering a child in case of labour complications, the lack of basic diagnostic tools to identify pregnancy abnormalities, as well as the lack of ambulances or incubators to save the lives of premature babies. As a result, the perinatal mortality is very high: on average, 160 out of 1,000 newborns die. A notable exception is the hospital in Nyangao, where Dominika Kulczyk meets Malgorzata Olasinska-Chart from the Polish Medical Mission, who introduces her to the problems of local mothers and the activities run the organisation. The president of the Kulczyk Foundation meets young mothers who, after several incomplete pregnancies, can finally enjoy looking after their happily born and healthy children.

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