13 August 2010 Last updated at 00:25

Audio slideshow: A midwife in Afghanistan

Sadiqa Husseini is 24 years old and from the village of Foladi, near Bamyan in the west of Afghanistan, where she now works as a midwife.

In 2008 she attend a midwifery school, supported by the NGO Jhpiego, and photographer Kate Holt has been documenting her work.

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Photographed and recorded by Kate Holt. Produced by Phil Coomes. Publication date 11 August 2010.

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