Surrounded by her five children, the youngest of whom is just a toddler, Gamuchirai Nhamo recalls spending three days in labour for each of their births. Now, she is in her ninth month of pregnancy with her sixth child and terrified about giving birth in the middle of the Chingwizi transit camp in southern Zimbabwe.
"I have no money for the bus fare to the hospital to have my child. I have no clothes for the new child," she reveals.
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