Best Practices and Photography from the Safe Motherhood Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean – eBook

• First place: Perú: Un Modelo de Atencion Integral de la Salud Materno Perinatal con Pertinencia Cultural y Enfoque de Derechos, Dr. Fernando Carbone Campoverde
• Second place: Ecuador: HACIA LA CONSTRUCCION DE UN MODELO DE SALUD REPRODUCTIVA C ON ENFOQUE INTERCULTURAL EN EL HOSPITAL SAN LUIS DE OTAVALO (IMPLEMENTACION DE SALA DE PARTO CULTURALMENTE ADECUADO)ECUADOR- PROVINCIA DE IMBABURA- CANTON OTAVALO, Magdalia Maribel Hermoza Vinueza
• Third place: Brasil: Casa da Gestante Zilda Arns do Hospital Sofia Feldman: uma contribuição à maternidade segura, Dr. Ivo de Oliveira Lopes y Dra. Lélia Maria Madeira

• First place: Uruguay: Cambio en la relación sanitaria, el modelo uruguayo de reducción de riesgo y daño del aborto inseguro, Leonel Briozzo Colombo y Ana Labandera Monteblanco
• Second place: Colombia: Cero Indiferencia con la Mortalidad Materna y Perinatal
• Third place: Brasil: Comissão Perinatal /BH – GESTÃO DA QUALIDADE E DA INTEGRALIDADE DO CUIDADO EM SAÚDE PARA A MULHER E A CRIANÇA NO SUS-BH, Sonia Lansky

• First place:  Ecuador: Diálogo Intercultural para el Mejoramiento de la Calidad de Atención Materna y Neonatal desde el Primer Nivel de Atención del Área de Salud No. 4  – MSP – Imbabura – Ecuador, Sandra del Rocío Moya Herrera y Milton Andrade Espinosa
• Second place: El Salvador: Guarjila: “Comunidad Organizada, Salud Materno-Infantil Ejemplar”, Dr. Dagoberto Menjívar López
• Third place: Brasil: Programa Mãe Curitibana, Eliane Regina da Veiga Chomatas

• First place: “Giving Birth“, Tali Elbert, Argentina
• Second place: “Dignified Motherhood“, Cecilia Monroy Cuevas, Mexico
• Third place: “Economically Poor, Rich in Maternal Love“, Gustavo Raúl Amador, Honduras

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“Wayuu Breastfeeding in democracy”

I took this photo in Maracaibo during my country´s elections in 2008. After I exercised my right to vote, I went with my always-present camera to try to capture the mood outside the voting center. I immediately saw this Wayuu mother breastfeeding her child; additionally, she had a stained finger (in my country, dying the little finger purple is a way to control who has voted). This incredible scene caught my attention and I asked permission to take her picture. My goal was to capture the image of a woman who had fulfilled her civil duties and was additionally exercising her full motherhood without caring that so many people were around. She showed me that breastfeeding is as important as democracy, and that both things live in this Wayuu mother.

Photographer: Rafael Jose Puche Quiñonez, Venezuela

“Nap”

Every week Nadia travels to Pinar, about 30 kilometers outside of Montevideo, to take care of her nephew Caetano while his mother works in an area school. One afternoon after lunch, Nadia retired to put the baby to sleep while I stayed in the dining room. After a few minutes, when I went to see who had put whom to sleep, I came upon this scene full of peace and intimacy: the child soundly resting and the satisfaction of his aunt while protecting him. So I simply took the photo, but then I began to think and realized that this was one of those moments in which everyone – men, women and children, deserve to live: whether it’s a rest, a kiss, a hug, a shared task, a little help; everything that if we are asked to define, we might not know exactly what to say, but usually call love.

Photographer: Juan Manuel Marcucci Longhitano, Uruguay