Pandemic Delays In Prenatal Care Are Dangerous For Babies And Pregnant Women : Goats and Soda A UNICEF report estimates that hundreds of thousands of babies in South Asia alone have died because of the inability of pregnant women to get appropriate care. India is seeking solutions.Kamala ThiagarajanEzhil Arasi Kumar was 8 weeks pregnant and due for her first prenatal visit — which would include an ultrasound scan. But she didn't go. Her appointment had been scheduled around the time when India's 21-day lockdown began, with little notice, on the eve of March 24, 2020. Not a single private...…Pandemic Delays In Prenatal Care Are Dangerous For Babies And Pregnant Women : Goats and Soda A UNICEF report estimates that hundreds of thousands of babies in South Asia alone have died because of the inability of pregnant women to get appropriate care. India is seeking solutions.Kamala ThiagarajanEzhil Arasi Kumar was 8 weeks pregnant and due for her first prenatal visit — which would include an ultrasound scan. But she didn't go. Her appointment had been scheduled around the time when India's 21-day lockdown began, with little notice, on the eve of March 24, 2020. Not a single private...WW…

.Loading...Pooja Rai was a young architecture student when she accompanied a friend to drop off donations at an orphanage. She was taken aback by what she saw.“Kids were playing with anything they could get their hands on,” she remembers. One group was rolling around a broken metallic pipe and brandishing it like a sword. Two boys were attempting to play badminton, using their flip-flops as rackets. It doesn’t take much to spark play. But it does take space – and some creativity. For this playground-building nonprofit, play is more than a child’s instinct. It’s a right.Despite the...….Loading...Pooja Rai was a young architecture student when she accompanied a friend to drop off donations at an orphanage. She was taken aback by what she saw.“Kids were playing with anything they could get their hands on,” she remembers. One group was rolling around a broken metallic pipe and brandishing it like a sword. Two boys were attempting to play badminton, using their flip-flops as rackets. It doesn’t take much to spark play. But it does take space – and some creativity. For this playground-building nonprofit, play is more than a child’s instinct. It’s a right.Despite the...WW…