Mom and Baby Health
$75.00
Mom and Baby Health
Many babies are born in remote areas or displacement camps without access to essential clinical services. This gift helps mothers deliver their babies safely, and provides newborns with routine immunizations through local clinics and community health teams. It also gives mothers critical care before and after birth, and guidance on breastfeeding and newborn health.
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Your Impact
Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda hosts close to 60,000 refugees and asylum seekers. Previously, mothers experiencing complications in birth had to be driven to the district hospital in a town about 35 kms away along extremely bumpy, dirt roads, with the journey taking about two hours. Many women arrived at the hospital in advanced stages of labour or having given birth during the journey, putting their own and their baby’s life at risk.
Now, Save the Children provides maternal and newborn care at the camp’s health centre, significantly reducing infant and mother mortality as well as post-partum complications. Your Gift of Joy helps moms and babies like Claire and Aimé.
Photo: Midwife Anne with Claire* and her daughter Aimé* at a Save the Children medical facility in Rwanda
