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Jam has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières to help promote their new campaign MSF Delivers. This campaign highlights the work MSF does delivering babies in humanitarian emergencies across the world. The campaign focuses on the experiences of midwife Samantha Perkins, 29, from Kettering, who has spent nine months working with MSF in a war-torn part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sam was based in North Kivu, where she supervised a busy maternity ward providing neonatal care to the women and babies. Sam and her team delivered 3451 babies last year, more than the Royal Free hospital in London. Many of the pregnancies will have been classified as high risk – were it not for the work of Sam and her team, a lot of these women, and their babies, would have died.

Supporting the campaign are a series of breathtaking 2D and 3D images taken by Duckrabbit, who spent ten days out in the Democratic Republic of Congo documenting Sam’s work. The films are debuting at Spitalfields Market until Tuesday 27th September. The films are incredibly moving and beautifully shot.

Do visit the exhibition if you can and please click here to make a donation.

Thank you.