Disaster Midwife
DULAG, LEYTE - APRIL 20: Riza Robedillo uses the techniques taught to her by the Bumi Wadah midwives to breast feed her newborn baby born in Dulag, Philippines on April 20, 2014. The baby was born two days earlier at the Bumi Wadah clinic and is malnourished and severely underweight. Riza and her husband and children are survivors of the storm: they hid under a piece of plywood during Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) as their house blew away and spent months afterwards living on the ground in a makeshift shack with a tarp roof eating only donated relief food. Just before she had her baby her husband finished constructing the home they are in now. Riza, 28, only wanted two children, but with lack of access to birth control she is on her fifth child. The Catholic Church, which has a stronghold in the country, is adamantly against any form of contraception other than "natural methods" or abstinence. The Church has stalled the Reproductive Health Bill which would fund access to contraceptives for the nation's poorest women. (Photo by Dana Romanoff/Reportage-by-Getty Images)