By Embrace | Embrace
Dear Friends,
Last July, Embrace merged with Thrive Networks, an international NGO pioneering evidence-based programs and technologies in health, water and sanitation, and education for underserved populations. Together our goal has been to reduce the unacceptably high newborn mortality rates in countries around the world. Recently, Thrive Networks made the strategic decision to refocus its resources on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, deepening the organization’s long-standing presence in the region. As part of this transition, Thrive Networks’ Newborn Health Program— including Embrace— will complete its programs in Benin, India, the Philippines and Uganda during the third quarter of 2016.
Embrace’s programs in India have grown significantly since we first began distributing infant warmers to local clinics in Karnataka in 2011. We are proud to have served under-resourced community health centers and hospitals in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttarakhand. Among our accomplishments, in Raebareli, an under-resourced district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, over 7,265 hypothermic infants have benefited from an Embrace warmer and we have provided intensive side-by-side education and training to over 8,655 mothers and 3,817 health care workers. Embrace is now completing a district-wide partnership with UNICEF in the impoverished state of Bihar, which will have allowed us to reach over 1,500 low birth weight and premature infants, 9,000 mothers and 2,500 health care workers. The Embrace infant warmer device will continue to be manufactured and distributed by Phoenix Medical Systems in India.
Since 2008, the GlobalGiving community has contributed over $245,794 to Embrace’s programs in India. Your overwhelming support has allowed us to help many more newborns survive and thrive.
With gratitude,
The Embrace Team
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