WE ARE
ADVOCATES FOR
MOTHERS & BABIES
IN THE DEVELOPING
WORLD
WHY?
EVERY YEAR 300,000 WOMEN AND GIRLS DIE IN CHILDBIRTH OR FROM PREGNANCY-RELATED CAUSES
BECAUSE
BECAUSE WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU LIVE CAN DETERMINE WHETHER YOU LIVE OR DIE IN CHILDBIRTH
HEALTHY EDUCATED EMPOWERED
BECAUSE STRONGER MOTHERS MEAN
STRONGER COMMUNITIES
MAR HAS PARTNERED WITH UBUNTU PATHWAYS IN THE PORT ELISABETH TOWNSHIPS
Nomthandazo and her baby boy Likhonco live in the Zwide township of Port Elisabeth, South Africa.
MAR HAS PARTNERED WITH UBUNTU PATHWAYS IN THE PORT ELISABETH TOWNSHIPS
Nomthandazo and her baby boy Likhonco live in the Zwide township of Port Elisabeth, South Africa.
MAR HAS PARTNERED WITH UBUNTU PATHWAYS IN THE PORT ELISABETH TOWNSHIPS
Nomthandazo and her baby boy Likhonco live in the Zwide township of Port Elisabeth, South Africa.
HEALTHY EDUCATED EMPOWERED
BECAUSE STRONGER MOTHERS MEAN
STRONGER COMMUNITIES
MAR HAS PARTNERED WITH UBUNTU PATHWAYS IN THE PORT ELISABETH TOWNSHIPS
Nomthandazo and her baby boy Likhonco live in the Zwide township of Port Elisabeth, South Africa.
“WOMEN ARE NOT DYING OF DISEASES WE CANNOT TREAT … THEY ARE DYING BECAUSE
SOCIETIES HAVE YET TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT THEIR LIVES ARE WORTH SAVING.”
– Professor Mahmoud Fathalla, Chair of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health –
SINCE 2009, WE HAVE HELPED LOCAL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS REDUCE THE VULNERABILITY OF mothers, women and girls living in poverty, so they may have safer pregnancies and deliveries and reach motherhood healthier and better educated.
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WHY POOR
URBAN MOTHERS
IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD?
Ensuring access to safe, quality and respectful childbirth for the urban poorest is emerging as an increasingly critical challenge,
one that MAR is committed to helping tackle:
THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY URBANIZING
MILLIONS OF MOTHERS LIVE IN URBAN SLUMS
THIS IS WHERE WE CAN MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT
MILLIONS of mothers living in POVERTY surviving in SLUMS deserve SAFE pregnancies HEALTHY babies and the joys of MOTHERHOOD
WHY POOR
URBAN MOTHERS
IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD?
Ensuring access to safe, quality and respectful childbirth for the urban poorest is emerging as an increasingly critical challenge,
one that MAR is committed to helping tackle:
BECAUSE THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY URBANISING
BECAUSE MILLIONS OF MOTHERS LIVE IN URBAN SLUMS
BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE WE CAN MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT
MILLIONS of mothers living in POVERTY surviving in SLUMS deserve SAFE pregnancies HEALTHY babies and the joys of MOTHERHOOD