She and her team have been working since 2003 to combat Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates, and the Bumi Sehat birth centers serve many at-risk mothers.

[1] From its beginnings as a community health and childbirth clinic in Bali, Lim took the Bumi Sehat Foundation to Aceh following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

[1] Lim and the Bumi Sehat midwives are prepared to provide maternal and infant care in the middle of devastated areas with limited materials.

Instead of cutting the umbilical cord, for instance, she burns it—especially in disaster zones, because it's something she can teach midwives and doctors who have lost their instruments.

While some Indonesian celebrities and expatriates choose Bumi Sehat to birth their children and they often give donations, 80% of the families served by the clinics can barely pay anything and are helped for free.

[7] She became a midwife after several personal tragedies, including the death of her sister (and her baby) from complications during pregnancy,[8] and the loss of her best friend and one of the midwives who delivered one of her own children.