Facing a dangerous delivery she'd never encountered before, nurse Dhanmaya reached a senior gynecologist by phone who guided her, step by step, to bring Sunin and her baby safely through.

At a renovated birthing center in the hills of Ilam, mothers like Tulachan now arrive with confidence, part of a quiet shift in how her whole community thinks about giving birth.

In one Ilam community, residents were so determined to have a proper birthing center that they raised their share of the cost from their own pockets, and turned a long-neglected health post into a model facility.

When monsoon flooding collided with the COVID-19 pandemic, mothers in Nepal's remote districts faced doubled risks, and this update follows how field teams responded.

A field update on how One Heart Worldwide kept maternal care reaching Nepal's rural health posts during COVID-19 and the monsoon season, including one team that gathered under a tree just to get online.