Young Afghan women train as midwives for out-of-reach villages

Aziza Rahimi, 35, who lost her son at birth, poses for a photo inside her house in Foladi Valley in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023. Rahimi stumbled while bleeding for two hours to her in-laws' house after her husband was unable to find a car or ambulance to take them to hospital, she gave birth but the baby died shortly after. "It was too hard for me when I lost my baby, as a mother I nurtured the baby in my womb for 9 months but then I lost him, it is too painful," she said. REUTERS/Ali Khara

FOLADI VALLEY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In a small village circled by velvety white snow-topped mountains in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, Aziza Rahimi mourns the baby son she lost last year after a harrowing birth with no medical care.

"It was too hard for me when I lost my baby. As a mother, I nurtured the baby in my womb for nine months but then I lost him, it is too painful," said Rahimi, 35.