World of 7 Billion Video

This week we participated in the World of 7 Billion video contest. We could one of the three topics, public, water scarcity, and deforestation. Every topic had 2 or 3 subtopics we could pick from to focus our videos on. The goal was to make a compelling video under 1 minute. I chose public health and women's reproductive rights. Collecting information and statistics wasn't the hard part, fitting it all under one minute was. I found a lot of interesting information about reproductive rates in third world countries and the amount of childbirth-related deaths occur. For example, in Afghanistan, 1 in 11 women will die from pregnancy-relate complications compared to the 1 in 4,300 in developed countries. It's interesting how "simple" the solution really is. By increasing the quality of medical care and educating women about their rights to their bodies/providing contraceptives and family planning, the population growth would decrease and life would be better sustained.  

As much as I would love to be able to post my video, the website won't allow it.