Maternity Services

In Malawi the maternal mortality rate is 984 per 100,000 per live births. In Canada, for example, 6 per 100,000 live births. It is still common place for women to deliver their babies behind their family hut with an untrained birth attendant or traditional birth attendant traditional healer sprinkling powder on them to help when complications arise.

“Malawi” asked for our help to bring these statistics down, to stop babies being motherless from birth due to unsafe practices or lack of help. With their support and yours, in 2009, we have opened two maternity clinics. Your donations help to fund the following programs:

• Family planning - ladies are putting themselves less at risk and improving their own chances of survival by becoming pregnant less often.
• Ante natal care - preventing many of the high risk problems with earlier detection and education through ante natal care.
• Birthing, delivery care. - Historically women have given birth behind their family dwelling with just the aide of a local untrained birth attendant or traditional healer. Now mothers can come to our maternity clinics, deliver their babies in clean safe comfort with medical assistance. All the while, their family stay on site in one of our guardian shelters keeping the family together at an important time.
• Post natal care - Many complications can arise post natal, new mothers are coming to our clinics for regular check-ups and to seek family planning.
• Mother to Baby HIV+ transmission - Through our existing HIV/AIDS services, we are able to provide medications that will greatly reduce the transmission in-utero HIV between a mother and baby.