THE APPEAL
Every year in Sub-Saharan Africa, about 200,000 mothers die as a result of complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Because of this, each year around one million children are left without a mother. Most of these deaths are easily preventable as they are the result of a simple lack of access to basic medical care.
Midwives Save Lives
With the Stand Up for African Mothers campaign, AMREF aims to train 15,000 additional African midwives by 2015. Once trained, we expect these midwives to be able to provide care for and health education to over seven million women each year.
A healthy Africa needs healthy mothers and African mothers need African midwives.
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AMREF Canada officially launched the campaign on May 10th with the MAMATOTO event
AMREF Canada officially launched the campaign in our country on May 10th with our African Marketplace event, MAMATOTO. The event was very well attended and provided us with the opportunity to introduce potential high level donors to AMREF’s work and the SU4AM goals. You can find out more information on our website :