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by Markus Rozkalns
Healthy Babies, Brighter Future: Support Safe Labor and Delivery Practices in Malawi
help2kids Malawi, Health Clinic: Healthy Baby Kits for Newborns
Country: Malawi
Project cost: $490
Needs
For USD 490 you can provide healthy baby kits to ten new mothers in rural Malawi.
About project
An estimated 29% of Malawi’s mothers give birth without the supervision of a skilled birth attendant, and often the delivery takes place at home. This practice, in part, results in 1 in 36 women dying in childbirth during their lifetime and a neonatal mortality rate of 24 per 1,000 births. Sometimes women choose not to deliver at the health centre because the distance is too far and they must arrange difficult logistics like a guardian to accompany them and food for their time. Providing an incentive for these mothers to deliver at the health centre would go a long way towards improving the health of mothers and babies.
Your Impact
For USD 490, we can provide Healthy Baby Kits to ten mothers. These kits contain soya flour, cooking oil, and beans for the breastfeeding mother, and reusable cloth nappies and wrapping cloth for the baby. By providing these kits, you’re helping mothers make the difficult but often safer choice, to deliver their babies at the health centre.
Health Baby Kits containing : cooking supplies and healthy ingredients for breastfeeding mothers, reusable cloth diapers, and a wrapping cloth for babies.
A healthy baby in Malawi, who has benefitted from the care and monitoring of the health centre.
help2kids supports the health centre with health outreach, including weight monitoring and evaluation in rural villages.
Here, a healthy mom and baby get a checkup through the health centre's health outreach initiative.