Prevent Mothers from Dying in Childbirth - Sudan

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Prevent Mothers from Dying in Childbirth - Sudan

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Summary

This project buys a childbirth delivery beds to provide basic services to 3500 village women. The local maternity unit don't have the delivery facilities and mothers suffers severely in childbirth. read updates from the field

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$50 - contributes in buying a delivery bed
$2,035 - Will fully fund this project

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Each year, many women die in childbirth in ONURA sub village Sudan. 99% of these deaths are due to lack of childbirth facilities and hemorrhage which is a common cause worldwide. Bleeding can be controlled in a clinic, but our aim is to provide traditional midwives a childbirth delivery bed to save lives in a local clinic where most births take place. This is also where most maternal deaths occur in ONURA sub village –well beyond the reach of hospitals and government health services.

Activities

provide safe motherhood services, antenatal care, deliveries, newborn care, postnatal care, family planningservices, and assist with home delivery through outreach services.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $115
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $2,035
Total Funding Goal: $2,150

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.ofiriha.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The long term impact will be the improvement of the health post facilities and also the increased knowledge of local health care workers who will be trained by HOPE OFIRIHA locally in safe motherhood practices so they can serve their communities.

Project Message

Why does Hope Ofiriha works in ONURA sub village? – We continue because marginalization continues, we continue because we cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of women, and children.
- - - Dr Robert Lokong, Volunteer doctor at Loheru healthcare post

Who is Running This Project

Contact

William logai Ochieng

Theresesgate 46
Oslo, Oslo 067
Norway
0047 47445159
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Project Sponsor

William Logai Ochieng

Organization

Hope Ofiriha
Theresegt 46 209
Oslo, Norway 0168
Norway
+4747445159
http://www.ofiriha.org

Learn more about Hope Ofiriha and the project team.

Reviews of Hope Ofiriha

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Sudan and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Sudan, read the Human Development Report on Sudan or the Wikipedia entry for Sudan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 19, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

First progress report - June 16 Matching Day!

By Linda Acen - Projects director, June 09, 2010 01:26 PM

Expecting mother & midwife outside maternity unit

In the local health post the delivery unit is lacking the facilities for mothers to give birth safely. In most serious cases women have no options but to die during child birth. Because conditions under which they give birth is 100% risky, no ambulance and government run healthcare centre is 50 km away.

Quote from a beneficiary: as pregnant woman I feel I am sentenced to dead because I don’t know if I will come back to my family during child birth.

On June 16 2010 GlobalGiving will be matching at 50% all online donations up to 1,000 per donor per project! This campaign runs between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm EST (GMT-4).

In addition to the 50% match, GlobalGiving will be offering a $1,000 bonus to the project that raises the most funds that same day a $1,000 bonus to the project that receives donations from most individual donors!

We are encouraging you to make a donation on June 16 to take this opportunity of the matching funds in order to help Sudanese women getting a child birth delivery bed - and finally get them out of extreme poverty and live a healthier life.

Thanks for your ongoing support!

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