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We provide self-sustaining resources to improve health and education of mothers and children in Sierra Leone
Over the weekend, a life was saved.
Yesterday, we saw our training being cascaded at the facilities of our top performers, and one of them shared that they saved a life, and they were so grateful they had our training on postpartum hemorrhage. They were able to implement the treatment bundle and we saw mother who lived.
Though she was weak, she laid there, alive with her baby. That’s enough to celebrate.
Tenki 🙏🏾💕
05/11/2026
Day 1 is done 🙌🏾💕👏🏾💕👏🏾
This is our 4th Maternal and Child Health Training Conference with Helping Children Worldwide and Healey International Relief Foundation, and we’re back in Bo thanks to funding from Rotary International!
We’ve got a wonderful new crew of trainers from Canada to work with and the number of local national trainers is steadily increasing, which is so awesome.
The Bo District Medical Officer gave a nice introduction about the MoH’s 300 days of activism initiative to reach zero preventable maternal deaths, zero preventable child deaths and zero “zero-dose” children. He also commended us for our efforts and the QUALITY of our training, which is why we were invited back!
With 38 midwives, nurses and maternal and child health aides to train, we hit the ground running to learn, and there was no lack of enthusiasm! It’s always great to work with this team of dedicated frontline workers and this is only the beginning.
Looking forward to four more productive days ahead!
Tenki tenki 🙏🏾💕
And our 3rd annual Maternal and Child Health Conference is complete!
We were able to train over 60 midwives and nurses in Helping Mothers Survive and Essential Newborn Care!
We also provided 12 of our top performers with training equipment to optimize their low-dose high frequency training sessions in their facilities because skills sustainment is necessary to achieve real change on the ground
We’ll be performing site visits next week to help our champions/practice coordinators cascade and integrate what they learned into the facilities, and demonstrate how this can be done during the clinical day in a non-disruptive manner.
These midwives are committed to safe deliveries and decreasing maternal and neonatal deaths.
And so they sang:
“No no no belli uman no for die
(No, no, no pregnant women shouldn’t not die)
When e go for born we say e no for die
(when she goes to give birth, we say she shouldn’t die)
Na for tap die na Salone, ay ya
(we should stop death in Sierra Leone)
We cam for tap die na Salone”
(we’ve come to stop death in Sierra Leone)
We’re truly honored to work with them, and we’re in it for the long haul.
It takes a village.
Tenki 🙏🏾💕
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