My friend Frances Foord, who has died aged 72 of ovarian cancer, worked for 26 years in the Gambia as a nurse-midwife for the Dunn Nutrition Unit, based in Keneba village. She also later taught midwifery at the University of the Gambia.
Much of Frances’s work was dedicated to promoting women’s equality, including by supporting breastfeeding mothers and campaigning to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM).
