From her second-floor office window at the corner of Main and Sanford, Peggy Carter-arrowsmith looks out on one of Hamilton's most impoverished neighbourhoods.

Carter-arrowsmith is a nurse practitioner, and she provides prenatal and postnatal care to a number of young, at-risk mothers and their babies. Many of her patients come from the poor neighbourhood that sits at the doorstep of her office.

Good health doesn't start in a hospital or a doctor's office.

Peggy Carter-arrowsmith provides pre- and postnatal care for mothers and their babies in Hamilton's impoverished neighbourhoods. Watch her photo slideshow, A mission of Care.