Family Planning for Rural Colombian Women

Dear Women for Conservation community, 

After two months of presidential elections causing roadblocks in our family planning work, we have another family planning brigade planned for later this summer in Santa Marta, Colombia! 

We have been doing extensive outreach in partnership with ProFamilia to evaluate locations with the strongest need for family planning access, and communities in and around Santa Marta expressed keen interest in participating. This next event aims to provide critical education, health checks, and contraceptive resources to 50 more women in the Santa Marta region.

Many women in and around Santa Marta face barriers to accessing reproductive care, a foundational resource that opens doors to other critical opportunities and even basic human rights, such as education, careers, bodily autonomy, and long-term health. At Women for Conservation, we want to ensure that all women have access to this life changing right, because when women thrive, communities thrive. 

In one recent brigade in Pueblo Bello, Cesar, one woman named Mónica shared that she traveled four hours from her home in Nuevo Colon to reach the event: two hours on motorcycle and two hours on foot. She came to access family planning resources to support her personal health, her family’s health, and to make informed decisions about her future – in her community, which has little access to formal healthcare, childbirth can be a tremendous strain on a woman’s body. With access to knowledge and resources for family planning, Mónica can ensure a healthy future for herself and her family.

Thanks in part to your support, we have been able to provide more than 4,300 family planning services to women and men in Colombia. That’s 4,300 people, like Mónica, that now have more control over their futures and their financial and physical well-being. Thank you to each and every one of you who has contributed to this cause. Together, we can help all women access the resources they need for a healthy and fulfilling life.

With gratitude,

The Women for Conservation Team

Links:

• See Monica's testimony here