Provide Lifesaving Kits for 10000 women in Nigeria

Dear freinds,

I wish to sincerely thank you for your continuous support and commitment to this project. It is a great pleasure for me to update you on the progress of this project. On this note, I am excited to inform you that even though the phase-1 of this project which include training of birth attendants and distribution of free clean birth kits across rural communities, we are working on implementing the phase-2 of this project in some communities that have been a beneficiary of the project in order to achieve a more sustainable solution to maternal and child mortality in remote communities. 

In the next phase of this project, we plan to establish a well-equipped community-based lifesaving maternity facility to support the community to easily access high quality care at an affordable cost. The facility will provide high quality patient-centred care at the rural community to ensure easy access to a high quality and affordable healthcare. The comprehensive service package includes but not limited to basic emergency obstetric and newborn care, pre and postnatal care, family planning services, routine immunizations, management of minor ailments, and simple diagnostic services.

As a social enterprise, it aims to reinvest all its profits to building a well-equipped, high-quality primary care in rural communities. This facility will operate as a social enterprising maternity facility established to provide access to quality maternal care in under-served, hard-to-reach and rural communities. The facility is designed to support pregnant women and under-five children in rural communities to access quality healthcare before, during and after delivery at a subsidized cost.

We hope to establish one healthcare facility each year in remote communities to improve access to quality and sustainable healthcare services eliminating accessibility barrier. I am very excited to report that we have already started the construction of a community-based health facility in one of the community called kabri-chana in Taraba state Nigeria which is expected to be completed by June this year (2023) and to commence full operation by October, 2023.

I am kindly requesting you to continue to support this project as we thrive to reach one community at a time with the goal of eliminating barriers to quality healthcare access in hard-to-reach, and remote communities.

Dear Freinds,

Before I provide you a few updates about this project, I like to take this moment to sincerely thank you for all the compassion and support you have shown to poor rural women in Nigeria, more especially the pregnant women who are faced with nemerous risks at the time of pregnancy and delivery. You have supported this project for the past three years now and nearly 4000 women and their babies have been saved because of your generous donation.

This project currently runs in 51 rural communities across four states in Northern Nigeria including; Gombe, Yobe, Plateau, and Taraba states. The project currently engages 54 home health volunteers that counsel and supports pregnant women in their homes until they safely deliver their babies. So far, nearly 4000 lifesaving clean birth kits have been distributed and over 1000 birth assistants and community health workers have been trained. This quarter after recieving your donations in June, we trained 120 birth assistants and distributed 500 birth kits to save 500 pregnant women and their babies.

For the coming year, we are working on the process of scaling up this project to more states and communities in Nigeria as demand for support for pregnant women in remote and isolated communities continue to increase. Our plan is to maintain ongoing projects in the current 51 communities and make additional engagements in few more new communities while working on our transition plan.

I am excited at this point to announce one of our major sustainability plans as many more pregnant women in remote communities continue face this unending threat to their lives during pregnancy and at the point of delivery. The second phase of the Lifesaving Intervention Project seeks to establish the Community Lifesaving Clinic which will be run as a social enterprising maternity facility to provide access to quality maternal care in under-served, hard-to-reach and rural communities. The CLC is designed to support pregnant women and under-five children in rural communities to access quality healthcare before, during and after delivery at a subsidized cost. The community lifesaving clinic aspires to provide high quality maternal care in hard-to-reach communities at a subsidized cost to eliminate access barriers such that pregnant women do not have travel to a far distanced community to access care.

The overall goal of this enterprise is to build a self-sustaining health facility that provides community-focused basic maternal and child health services in rural communities. We count on your support to continue to support pregnant women and their newborn babies in remote and isolatd communities where quality maternal care is not accessible.

Thank you

Links:

• A short story about the lifesaving project and the community