Seda’s Light (Every Mother Counts)

Seda, a 25-year-old nurse-midwife, is the only skilled birth attendant on staff in the maternity ward at Chakhaza Health Center in Dowa, Malawi. Only 1% of the rural population in Malawi is linked to the national electricity grid, and Seda, like many health care workers, struggles without power to make sure pregnant women can deliver safely, oftentimes in the dark.

Directed and Produced by Clancy McCarty
Cinematography by Venetia Dearden
Written and Edited by Jessica Reynolds