Empower OneMama Health Clinic to Sustainability!

Mogul is the “fasting growing technology platform for women to connect, share information and access knowledge.” Mogul has 165 million views each month and is also UN Women partner.

“Those mentioned have made, and continue to make, enormous strides in hiring a diverse talent, creating welcoming environments and communities for employees and contributing to society in meaningful ways.” – Mogul

Mogul selected Siobhan because of her collective work with OneMama.org and her work building out technology organizations with Amazon (Prime Now) focusing on diversity

Siobhan Neilland founded OneMama.org, a UN Consultative nonprofit that brings maternal care, health and family services, as well as economic sustainability to women and their families in rural African communities where people survive on under $1.25 a day. She is also the lead recruiter for Amazon Prime Now. The Prime Now leadership team started as almost entirely female, and nearly sixty-percent of all Amazon Prime Now’s tech teams are women.

See Top 100 list here : https://onmogul.com/stories/top-100-innovators-in-diversity-inclusion

Siobhan is really excited to utilize her skills for both her tech work as well as giving all women a voice:

“I am so touched to be a part of an amazing list of women who are making a difference in the world and giving a voice to woman on all levels of leadership” – Siobhan said

Siobhan continues to find work life balance as she drives change for woman at OneMama.org and continues to fight for access and empowerment to woman who live under $1.25 a day. The same goes for her Staffing Diversity and Inclusion consulting role at Amazon in the Prime Now team. She currently is moving the needle in hiring woman and giving access and a pathway to leadership roles for woman in technology. She is making an impact with her inclusion and engangement events in both for tune 100’s and the non-profit sectors.

Congratualations, Siobhan!

– The OneMama Team

Since founder, Siobhan Neilland, resides full time in California, her yearly trips to Uganda are times of extreme focus. The year-round work we do relies heavily on these five to six weeks when we implement and improve programs, staff training, and do community outreach. This year followed that same rhythm in strides! The OneMama team and Clinic in Uganda are hopeful that by sharing these trip updates, it will help bring forward new partners. Most of all, new partnerships are essential to complete the important work the OneMama clinic does each day.

We love our little OneMama Clinic! …The people, power, and dedication of a community that really does want to transform the way it thrives! First of all, we need to share upfront that donations have not been coming in like they have in the past. Consequently, we suspect that this is due to the political climate in the US. Support and donations used to come in often, however we are now seeing less and less participation from organizations and individuals here. Also, the change in laws in the United States have affected the way we do things in Africa. These changes are worrying our little clinic and Siobhan experienced this first hand during her recent trips to the village.

“My number one priority is for the OneMama Clinic to survive and keep the doors open and thriving. If former funding paradigms are not working, we need to find new ones. What I’m realizing is, instead of relying so heavily on products that will sell well in the U.S. and International markets, we are going to focus on creating products and crops that will sell in Uganda with the goal to be self-funding in a year in a half.” – Quote by Siobhan

• Most noteworthy, we bought new fabrics to make a new OneMama fashion collection featured at New York Fashion Week 2017. The new fabric combines t-shirt materials with military inspired uniform fabric. The creation of classy designs that fits all women’s body shapes. Also, we increased our men’s wear collection and this will also be featured at New York Fashion Week.
• We met with a lot of political figures in Ugandan parliament, or Chairmen, as they are called in Uganda. We met with the Chairmen (Governor) of Kayunga and he spoke at our Community event of 500-700 people. It was a special time where we served food and presented all the new health and economic programs for the clinic… even the trusted leading aid to the President of Uganda was in attendance!
• OneMama has a women’s soccer team!

  At the Community event we presented the local women’s soccer team that OneMama is a proud sponsor. The team includes members of our Community, as well as, OneMama staff.
  

• Taking care of Mama! – One morning Siobhan took mama Jamira to go get her hair done.  “A small gesture to make sure she is taken care of.”  Siobhan tries to share one-on-time with all the wonderful staff at the OneMama Clinic.
• We introduced multiple new projects to our economic sustainability programs. First of all, the insect project. Insects can help create more protein for the community as well as financial sustainability. Siobhan’s life-partner, who accompanied her on the trip, lovingly headed up this new project. Additionally, we built out or expanded many other projects. These include honey harvesting, herbal and eatable crop production for local sales, providing menstrual pads for sale and use in the community, and creating new, sustainable designs for OneMama Collection necklaces, purses, and clothing. As a result of the political climate, collection items are now created with sales in the local marketplaces in the forefront of efforts.
• We had countless meetings with the community advisory board, our OneMama staff, potential partners, and the community at large.
• We built out partner relationships with the people who will be working on our labs, family planning programs, and our domestic violence programs.
• Our OneMama staff signed on for another year to work at the OneMama clinic, we have a full staff and three nurses.
• We had the privilege to share with the community how we gained consultative status with the United Nations – giving their village a voice on the world stage of policy change!

Most importantly, our OneMama Clinic cannot stay open without changing the way it operates in the bigger picture. At the same time, we would not be this far without those who share in the OneMama vision. We need these partnerships to continue and are hopeful that these new developments inspire you into greater action!

Siobhan Neiland, OneMama.org founder, along with a couple handfuls of volunteers, traveled to New York City in March. They gathered for the third year in a row to present at the United Nations as a delegate at the Commission on the Status of Women CSW61.

This two-week event came with challenges, beginning with a snowstorm that shut down the city the day before the event, but it also came with time to nurture partnerships and make new ones. Along with sharing about our village and leading a panel that discussed Global Funding Solutions, the OneMama.org team also embarked on a new way to make change!

OneMama is thrilled to share that we have begun the process of applying for Consultative Status!
With this we can better advocate for the women of our village and support voices around the world in a whole new way.

Consultative Status will get us to the policy table and help us fight for real action. We met influential people while at the UN who will be partnering and advocating for us to make this process towards consultative status as smooth as possible.

In case you don’t know, the Commission on the Status of Women allows for NGO representatives, international delegates, and nation states to share their opinions and sculpt policy at the United Nations. We’ve loved sharing as a delegate voice for our NGO for the past few years, but we are ready to make that jump, to not only talk about what we do and how we succeed as a NGO, but also be among the people who make the official policy changes. How cool is this?!

When we talk about advocating for women in a whole new way this is what we believe will make those things happen.

We are looking forward to our new partnerships and the things that will birth over the next year, but we also celebrate all that happened while at the CSW61.

Thank you for supporting and cheering us on as we face each new stage in this process!