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Why women still give birth at home

Midwife Topele Mepukoli during the interview at her home in Makurian location, Laikipia North. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Topele Mepakoli was about ten years old when she helped a woman deliver a baby.

She says memories of that day are blurry, but she will never forget her mother’s frantic calls that woke her up.

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