Help 1000 mothers access child birth services

Financial incapability is a major barrier in accessing a skilled professional services in many nigerian rural settings. Especially when it comes to pregnancy care and delivery. Majority of the women chose to patronize unskilled birth attendants in search of cheap services, which often earn them a costlier result. Purchasing basic consumables needed for a clean and healthy birth is a huge burden to an economically disadvantaged pregnant woman. Oak Rural Health Organization designs projects and incorporate programs that positively influences the health seeking behaviors of the rural pregnant women.

No fewer than 25 women benefited from birthing kits distribution. Distribution of birthing kits is a key component of this project implementation plan to relief the women of financial burden associated with pregnancy and child birth. Also, encourage the women to recieve pregnancy care from skilled health workers. There is a gradual increase in the number of antenatal bookings at our project center. The women are increasingly becoming aware of the need to access care from skilled health workers rather than patronizing quacks.

We have been able to achieve big with the little resources. We can achieve bigger with a bigger resources, your generous donation will help us to reach more pregnant women and offer them the needed care in pregnancy and delivery.

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Experts described pregnancy as a stage of physiological anomalies. To majority, pregnancy carrying period is with series of agony and pains from conception to delivery. These agonies and pains are soon forgotten with arrival of a live healthy baby, enhanced by good prenatal and postnatal care. Poverty may truncate the dream of having a live healthy baby in the absence of a project intervention like "support 1000 healthy births" by Oak Rural Health Organization.

Awonike is a poor petty trader and mother of 2 whose husband is a traditional healer, both living within the locality where the project is being implemented. Her previous pregnancy  which was complicated by anaemia was delivered at an undisclosed place. She came for antenatal booking in January 2020. She got the attention of our expert healthcare professionals and all her health needs were met. She came regularly for her antenatal clinics where she was well examined and subsequently given multivitamins, malaria prevention chemotherapy when due, and other care. She put to bed, a bouncing and healthy baby boy in March 2020 with no complications. Her post natal clinic went well and the baby is equally in good health.

This intervention profers a lasting helping hand to the poor and draws them to accessing healthcare from competent hands. Upto 10 children have been born of poor mothers like Awonike between January and April 2020. We love to expand our coverage beyond our present location to enable us achieve our "1000 healthy births" target. Only your generous donations can help us with this. You can be a one time donor or recurrent donor, anyways moves us forward!