Ingrid Pilgrim is sitting in a circle of nine mothers in a lecture theatre at Homerton hospital in east London. It is their first day at Bump Buddies, a project where peer mentors, of which Pilgrim is one, support local mothers in Hackney - a borough that has a much higher than average infant mortality rate and where black babies are up to three times more likely to die in their first year than white ones.
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Anita Pati on the project aiming to reduce infant mortality among black children - The Guardian 30th April 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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