By Alejandra Villalobos | Executive Director, Embrace
Dear Friends,
2015 has been an extraordinary year. We celebrated another incredible milestone: over 200,000 low birth weight and premature infants have now been treated with an Embrace warmer worldwide. We’ve also provided intensive one-on-one education on hypothermia and newborn health to over 32,000 mothers, family members and health care workers.
We are immensely proud of this work and grateful for all those who have supported us along the way. But we’re far from finished. We keep looking forward, asking, “How can we reach more babies before it’s too late?” This year alone, 5.9 million children under the age of five died; nearly half were newborns. The majority of these kind of deaths are preventable, but they continue because many infants and mothers lack access to adequate care.
In July, Embrace joined Thrive Networks, an international nonprofit with more than a decade of experience saving newborn lives. Thrive Networks has treated more than 400,000 newborns in over 350 hospitals across 10 countries.
We know that together, we will save more lives than we ever could apart.
Through our joint efforts, we will launch programs to reduce newborn death, illness and disability through introducing a comprehensive package of equipment, training, education and support. Embrace, together with Thrive Networks, is now able to address more than just hypothermia; we will address a broad range of key health issues causing newborn deaths, including preterm birth complications, respiratory distress and infection.
Our first two projects are launching shortly, and we’d like to invite you to be a part of this new initiative to reach more babies, mothers and communities.
This holiday season, I hope you'll consider giving the gift of life-saving health care to babies in need.
With Sincere Thanks,
Alejandra Villalobos
Executive Director, Embrace
P.S. Every dollar you donate will be matched up to $50,000— doubling the power of your gift thanks to a generous Thrive Networks Board member.
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By Alejandra Villalobos | Executive Director
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