‘People in the Community Trust Us’

Donata has been a midwife in the Pacán community of Totonicapán for 22 years, delivering an estimated 450 babies and referring 30 more complicated births to health centers. “My grandmother was a midwife,” Donata says. “She used to say to me, ‘This is your heritage. You will take my place.’ She would explain all the problems that might happen and share everything that she knew.”