When community awareness programs brought information and support closer to home, a mother named Ranju in Madhesh Province found the confidence to seek the care she and her baby needed.

A community mobilizer in Mahottari kept showing up at Radha's door, month after month, until something changed.

What happens after a program ends? In Jwalamukhi, the answer is zero maternal deaths in three years and a community that has made safe motherhood its own.

"I never give up." For community health volunteer Kiran Kumari Thakur, reaching every pregnant woman in her corner of Mahottari is a daily act of persistence, and it is beginning to shift how families think about safe motherhood.

In Bara District, One Heart Worldwide and its partners are learning that safe motherhood depends on more than nearby clinics, it depends on earning the trust of the families and elders who shape a mother's choices.

Across the remote, mountainous districts of Karnali Province, One Heart Worldwide and its local partners are helping governments and communities build maternal care systems designed to last long after the program ends.