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Million Moms Fund
Million Moms Fund
Afghanistan  Women and Girls
The Million Moms Challenge is a call to action to engage a million Americans with millions of moms in the developing world around issues that impact pregnancy, childbirth and children's health. The goal is to create a global community, building on the common dream that every mother shares for her child: a healthy pregnancy, a safe birth and a baby who will survive and thrive. project reportread updates from the field
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Provide Lifesaving Plumpy'Nut in Horn of Africa
Provide Lifesaving Plumpy'Nut in Horn of Africa
Ethiopia  Hunger
In 2011, the Horn of Africa region experienced one of the worst droughts in 60 years. Rising food prices, due to lack of supply, means that thousands of already vulnerable children are more likely to experience severe acute malnutrition. Plumpy'Nut, a vitamin enriched peanut-paste, plays a critical role in hospitals and clinics throughout the region. In over 90% of cases, it can bring a child on the brink of death back to life. project reportread updates from the field
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Feed a Child - Reduce Malnutrition in Guatemala
Feed a Child - Reduce Malnutrition in Guatemala
Guatemala  Health
Combating child malnutrition through education, early detection and treatment in an impoverished, indigenous Kaqchikel speaking community in Guatemala. project reportread updates from the field
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Embrace Infant Warmers Impact Babies Lives India
Embrace Infant Warmers Impact Babies Lives India
India  Health
This project supports our India efforts, in which we strive to give tiny infants (pre-term and low birth weight) an equal chance for a healthy life by providing them with much needed thermal support. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000, the Embrace Infant Warmer costs 1% of this price. The device is innovative and can work with or without electricity, is portable, safe and intuitive to use. project reportread updates from the field
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Educate a Midwife - Save Women in Afghanistan
Educate a Midwife - Save Women in Afghanistan
Afghanistan  Health   Safer World Matching FundsSafer World Matching Funds
A woman should not die while giving life. Every minute a woman dies in pregnancy and childbirth. Jhpiego knows how to keep these women alive. Jhpiego works to bring care to women where they live. project reportread updates from the field
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Shot@Life
Shot@Life
Ethiopia  Health
Every 20 seconds, a child dies of a disease that could have easily be prevented with a vaccine. The UN Foundation's Shot@Life Campaign educates, connects and empowers Americans to champion vaccines as one of the most cost-effective ways to save the lives of children in developing countries. Together, we can decrease vaccine-preventable childhood deaths and give every child a shot at a healthy life. project reportread updates from the field
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Save a Mom's Life in the Congo
Save a Mom's Life in the Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of the  Women and Girls
International Medical Corps is saving lives of mothers and children around the world by giving midwives the tools and skills they need to deliver babies safely. project reportread updates from the field
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Breast Feeding Saves Lives
Breast Feeding Saves Lives
Indonesia  Women and Girls
Every second a child in Indonesia dies before reaching her 5th birthday. Millions more infants are at high risk of growth & mental retardation due to malnutrition. But there is an easy & inexpensive solution: Breastfeeding. An estimated 100,000 children in Indonesia under the age of 5 could be saved if all babies were exclusively breastfed in the first 6 months of life & continued breastfeeding until the age of 2 years. Your donations will help Mercy Corps expand this program & save more lives. project reportread updates from the field
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Better Maternal Health for 500,000 Women in Africa
Better Maternal Health for 500,000 Women in Africa
Kenya  Women and Girls
More than 250,000 women die each year in sub-Saharan Africa during pregnancy and childbirth due to a lack of basic medical care. Health workers, in particular, are desperately needed. AMREF is expanding its maternal health programs to help stop these needless deaths. Over the next 5 years, we will train 18,000 health workers that can save mothers lives, including 3,000 new midwives. We need your support to help ensure safer pregnancies and deliveries for women-at-risk in Africa! project reportread updates from the field
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The Eliminate Project
The Eliminate Project
Kenya  Health
Kiwanis International and UNICEF have joined forces to combat maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) worldwide. This historic initiative, called "The Eliminate Project," will protect the lives of babies and mothers all over the globe and aims to help put an end to this cruel, centuries-old disease. project reportread updates from the field
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Healthcare for Mothers and Children in Bangladesh
Healthcare for Mothers and Children in Bangladesh
Bangladesh  Health
Every 4 minutes in Bangladesh, a child less than 1 month old dies because their mother didn't have access to proper post-natal and ante-natal care. The majority of these deaths can be prevented by providing children and their mothers with access to proper nutrition. By providing nutritional supplements to pregnant mothers, their newborn babies, and young children, we can drastically reduce child mortality. project reportread updates from the field
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mothers2mothers- Helping Mothers, Saving Babies
mothers2mothers- Helping Mothers, Saving Babies
South Africa  Health
mothers2mothers helps keep mothers with HIV, and their babies, healthy by helping prevent babies from contracting HIV through mother-to-child transmission and empowering mothers living with HIV. project reportread updates from the field
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UNFPA: Clean Birthing Kits in Emergency Situations
UNFPA: Clean Birthing Kits in Emergency Situations
Afghanistan  Health
For as little as $11 you can help UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, get 3 emergency clean birthing kits, including a bar of soap, clear plastic sheet, razor blade, an umbilical cord tie, cloth and latex gloves into the hands of pregnant mothers and health care workers as they safely deliver babies in crisis situations. project reportread updates from the field
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Maternal Mortality Reduction Project with PIH
Maternal Mortality Reduction Project with PIH
Lesotho  Health
In the small southern African country of Lesotho, high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity threaten the country’s young mothers. Lesotho is one of the few countries in the world where the number of women dying of maternal causes has increased over the last decade. Many of these women, especially in the mountains of rural Lesotho where Partners In Health works, die of causes that could be prevented if they had access to skilled delivery assistance and emergency obstetric care. project reportread updates from the field
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Provide critical nutrients to women and children
Provide critical nutrients to women and children
Kenya  Health
Through its Future Fortified campaign, GAIN seeks to help women and children around the world gain acess to the essential nutrients they need to lead healthy, enriched lives. In the Horn of Africa, millions of women and children are in the midst of the critical 1,000 days from pregnancy to a child's second year - when propor nutrition is essential for a child's phsyical and mental development. This project will help fortify the future by ensuring healthy pregnancies and nourished children. project reportread updates from the field
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Provide immunizations for 300 infants in Zambia
Provide immunizations for 300 infants in Zambia
Zambia  Health
Riders for Health's program in Zambia, staffed entirely by nationals, provides health workers with trekking vehicles and the training in driving, maintenance, and trip planning necessary to reach thousands of mothers and children in the Southern Province. The goal of this project is to raise $26,000 to cover 1 year's running costs for a trekking vehicle to reach mothers with post delivery care, and infants and children with life saving immunizations. project reportread updates from the field
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Keep Zambian Mothers & Infants Healthy & HIV Free
Keep Zambian Mothers & Infants Healthy & HIV Free
Zambia  Health
Mansa Network of People Living with AIDS operates a program of support in 10 rural clinics. They have achieved impressive results: an increase in male involvement from 10 percent to 60 percent; an increase of people who access treatment by 66 percent; and a reduction in the number of children born HIV positive from 400 to 15. If Mansa Network of People Living with AIDS had the resources, they could reach more couples, mothers, and infants. project reportread updates from the field
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