Bali-based midwife Ibu Robin Lim and her team at Yayasan Bumi Sehat (YBS), a non-profit organization she founded in 2003 to promote world peace one baby at a time, are being recognized as one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes of 2011.
Ibu Robin and YBS offer gentle natural childbirth and respectful care free of charge in a developing country where many families cannot afford quality care, and childbirth is a death sentence for far too many women and babies, especially the poor.
YBS serves Indonesian families through birthing, pre-natal and post-natal care as well as holistic health consultation at their original clinic in Ubud, Bali as well as a second clinic in Aceh opened after the 2004 tsunami. All Indonesian clients are served for free, and expats can receive care by discretionary donation.
You can support the work of Ibu Robin Lim and YBS by voting for Robin to be named CNN's Hero of the Year 2011. If she wins, YBS will receive $250,000. You can vote up to 10 times a day each and every day from today until December 7, 2011.

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