By Jennifer Camacho | Advocacy Coordinator
10 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, COHI’s 1st field team arrived to distribute maternal and newborn related healthcare supplies and to support local midwives.
With your help, we successfully transported 4,000 pounds of supplies, including syringes, gauze, speculums, gowns, pads and diapers, and delivered them to our partners in Centro MAM (Mujeres Ayudando Madres). Two separate clinical teams including OB/GYNs and midwives have provided upwards 100 prenatal and postnatal visits and organized the intake of a women's health assessment. We have also distributed $5000 in cash grants given to the island’s midwives and $60,000 worth of essential medicines were provided to women’s and newborn health clinics across Puerto Rico.
You made this happen!
Your donations mean so much. Thanks to you, pregnant women and new mothers will receive care from midwives trained to deliver babies under crisis conditions. We are in touch with local midwives to support their ongoing needs.
COHI wants to continue to help women and children affected by Hurricane Maria. Here’s some of what we hope to accomplish in the year ahead:
Thank you for your continued generosity! With your support, we hope to continue funding Centro MAM for women and newborns in the area and accomplish our impact goals this year.
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Sincerely,
The COHI team
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