Filipino-American Robin Lim, a midwife based in Indonesia, has won CNN’s coveted Hero of the Year award for 2011.
As founder of the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation health clinics in Indonesia, Lim, who is most often referred to as “Ibu” or “mother”, has helped thousands of impoverish mothers in the country with free birthing services from prenatal care, medical aid to delivery.
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