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.
Please be assured that AMREF does not share any of its supporter’s details with any other organisation.
Stand up for African Mothers highlighted on the Bill and Melinda Gates blogging website.
The campaign was relayed by the impatient optimists blog, the blog of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Their support is in line with their concern for people working every day to help alleviate poverty and to help promote health. AMREF deeply shares this concern and African midwives are those people! Read the article on http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/07/How-15000-Midwives-Will-Save-Mothers-Lives