By Molly Ronan | Development Associate
Dear Embrace supporters,
Firstly, despite the tremendous success we've had in Afghanistan so far, we are sad to announce that this will be our final report for our Embrace Global Giving project "Preventing Newborn Hypothermia in Afghanistan." If you wish to continue receiving updates about Embrace's progress, I encourage you to follow our other Global Giving project "Embrace Infant Warmers Impact Babies' Lives in India," read our blog or sign up for our newsletter.
As winter is fast approaching in Afghanistan, temperatures are dropping and infants are at a greater risk for hypothermia. With our great success at Rabia Balkhi Hospital in Kabul over the past 7 months, we are thrilled to announce our expansion to two more hospitals in Kabul: Malalai Maternity Hospital and Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital. Both hospitals previously had no functioning incubators, so the introduction of the Embrace infant warmers have been a great help to these high birth facilities.
In our first month at Malalai and Indira Gandhi Hospitals, the Embrace infant warmer helped nearly 200 low birth weight and premature infants. Our current total for all of Afghanistan includes over 3500 infants helped. We are so thrilled with the progress so far, and fully recognize that we could not achieve such great results without supporters like you.
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
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