Few among us can claim to have delivered a baby in the back of a four-by-four in a remote west African village.
But Leamington couple Edd and Sarah Kenny-Levick - neither of whom have had any medical training - found themselves doing exactly that during a volunteering expedition.
The pair were helping to build an orphanage in the village of Biombo in Guine
a Bissau, when one of the women living nearby suddenly went into labour.
It was down to the English husband-and-wife team to drive Milanka to the hospital but no sooner had the car stopped and Mr Kenny-Levick turned around than a "slimy grey creature" was on the car seat between them.
He said: "My thoughts were - where's that doctor? Why are its legs at such funny angles?
"Isn't the umbilical chord whiter than normal?
"Why isn't the thing moving?"
Mr Kenny-Levick, 37, remembered seeing something on television about tapping a newborn baby on the bottom, which he did - and Milanka's third child began to cry.
He said: "I think that noise was one of the most beautiful sounds I'll ever hear.
"Words can't describe the feelings of joy, relief and awe we had."
Milanka, whose husband was working away at the time, named the baby Edu after Mr Kenny-Levick.
After spending four months in Guinea Bissau, Mr and Mrs Kenny-Levick moved on to Kenya where they volunteered at the Rainbow Community Care orphanage and school near Malindi.
The pair have since set up a fairtrade art project with an artist from
Malindi, the proceeds from which go to the artist and the orphanage.
The couple, who had given up their jobs to go travelling, went on to spend two months in India before returning to their house in Rosefield Street, Leamington, in June.
Mrs Kenny Levick, 30, is currently looking for work in project management. She said: "We had an amazing adventure and learnt a lot about ourselves and other people.
"We expected to discover that it's easy to do charity work but it's not."
She would advise anyone thinking of taking on charity work to carefully research the organisation before going, adding: "Badly managed charity can be more damaging than doing nothing.
"It's really important that the community is involved in what the charity's objectives are."
People can support Rainbow Community Care by buying artwork from www.ethicallysourced.co.uk
