Causes: Health, Nursing

Mission: -Reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in Haiti by teaching midwifery skills. -Enhance maternal health by providing regular prenatal and postnatal care, including preventative services by training midwives. -Provide safe, clean places for women to give birth. -Incorporate care of the newborn, vaccines, dehydration treatment and prevention along with breastfeeding support with maternal care.

Results: 1.We have trained 124 skilled birth attendants in Hinche, Haiti and another 32 students will graduate in Feb 2018.2.We provide prenatal care to around 500-800 women per month through our Mobile Clinics. We have been able to provide medications that both prevent and treat complications as well a vitamins. We have a vehicle that provides emergency transport for mothers and babies at risk. 3.Our graduates touch the lives of tens of thousands of women and infants in hospitals, birth centers, and health clinics throughout Haiti. Several of our graduates precept and teach our current students. All graduates are able lead community outreach and train matwòns, traditional birth attendants, in safe birth practices.

Target demographics: reduce maternal and infant mortality in Haiti

Direct beneficiaries per year: 124 total skilled birth attendants trained, our programs provided 10,000+ patient care visits so that more women in rural Haiti would have safe births, and paid the salaries of 18 hospital skilled birth attendants to ensure 24/7 care is available.

Geographic areas served: Hinche, Haiti

Programs: 1.Training of Haitian nurses as skilled birth attendants. 2.Offering mobile clinics that reach 500-800 hundred of women and infants in rural villages each month. 3.Community outreach and basic skills workshops for Matwòns (traditional birth attendants) 4.Support the maternity center at Hospital St. Therese with staff, resources and supplies5.Operate a free-standing birth center in the remote community of Cabestor