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Maternal Health Foundation

Give Mothers Hope. Give Babies a Healthier Future.

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Join our End-of-Year Donation Drive.

As the year comes to a close, your gift has the power to transform maternal health in underserved communities. Every donation helps train birth attendants, deliver lifesaving supplies, and ensure mothers receive the respectful, quality care they deserve.

Imagine a World…

In Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of women face life-threatening risks during pregnancy and childbirth. For many, the nearest health facility is a two-day walk away, contributing to a staggering 1 in 16 chance of dying from pregnancy or childbirth complications. In this reality, childbirth injuries such as obstetric fistula are far too common.

When prolonged, obstructed labor occurs without access to a C-section, women may spend days in labor—often resulting in stillbirth. The physical toll is devastating. Internal injuries leave grieving mothers leaking urine or feces uncontrollably. Rejected by their communities, many are forced into isolation and despair.

Yet these outcomes are both preventable and treatable.

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The Holistic Model of Care

The Maternal Health Foundation envisions a world where every woman has access to safe maternal healthcare and no mother suffers needlessly from childbirth injuries. We partner with world-renowned doctors, researchers, and hospitals to deliver advanced surgical treatment, innovative research, and compassionate care. By working with the best maternal health experts, we provide women with life-changing surgery, restore dignity, and create hope for a future free from preventable maternal injury and death.

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Prevention & Education

We support programs that prevent fistula: excellent prenatal care, ultrasound, patient delivery plans, and relevant information—all in an atmosphere of safety and positive anticipation.

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Treatment

All women deserve to live free of debilitating childbirth injuries. In Uganda, Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital provides free transportation and childbirth injury repair by specially trained and skilled doctors and nurses.

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Reintegration

Emotional support from peers and staff continue after surgery. Classes help women prepare to return home with new skills, self-confidence and pride, able to successfully rejoin their families and communities.

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FISTULA - A film to promote better maternal health care globally.

This short film has been made to raise awareness, reduce stigma about fistula, and highlight the devastating impact fistula has on women who live with this condition. The goal is to make life better and safer for women giving birth and to prevent fistula from happening in the first place. The film is a call to action to improve access to maternal care including quality, safe, timely, and affordable surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care—and promote safe motherhood for all.

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