Motherhood Health Care | Maternal Health | Maternal mortality |SDGs

Happy Internation
Women's Day

Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow

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No woman should die
bringing life.

Far too many women are dying of preventable
pregnancy and childbirth related issues.

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Bringing live should not
result in death.

Access to maternal health workers
are key to preventing maternal deaths.

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Maternal mortality
has a face, and its African.

Sub-Saharan African women are at a higher
risk of dying while giving birth than women
in any other region in the world.

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Save Mothers so mothers
can save the world.

Pregnancy and childbirth are often times a cruel
and harsh lived experience for many African women,
particularly the poor and women in rural areas.

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY

We are engaging and mobilising maternal health advocates, donors, partners, volunteers, runners and health professionals to make a meaningful difference in the lives of mothers and babies.

YOUR DONATION MATTERS

Your support helps to save the lives of mothers and babies. 100 percent of your donations come from people like you and 90 percent is spent on helping vulnerable women and babies in poor and rural areas.

VOLUNTEERS

Join our volunteer staff in providing vital midwifery training and providing life saving treatment for mothers and babies.

Every year about 295,000 women die around the world as a result of complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

Having a baby is a joyous time but for many women in the developing world particularly Sierra Leone pregnancy and childbirth is a life-threatening event.

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That's one woman every two minutes

Everyday approximately 810 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth

Help us save Mothers and Babies

The majority of these deaths can be prevented if women have trained midwives, access to antenatal care and support, life changing treatment and well-equipped health clinics and hospitals.

What are the global causes of maternal death?

➡ Haemorrhage or severe bleeding
➡ Hypertensive disorders or eclampsia
➡ Sepsis or infection
➡ Complications from delivery
➡ Unsafe abortion

What the indirect causes of maternal death?

➡ Poverty
➡ Distance to Health facilities
➡ Inadequate and poor quality of service
➡ Harmful traditional practices
➡ Gender inequality

Our Impact

3000+ Mothers

Helped from 2011 in Sierra Leone

2000+ Babies

Helped from 2011 in Sierra Leone