WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
We work with small, local, grassroots organizations that are very established in the communities they serve and have a good track record of having an impact in those communities. We help them connect to networks and funding to support their work. We also partner with larger organizations to promote innovative solutions to maternal health challenges and to replicate and scale up interventions that work.
IMPROVING MATERNAL AND NEONATAL HEALTH IN GUARUJA, BRAZIL
Brazil has made undoubted progress to reduce maternal mortality in the last decades, but it still needs to make significant strides to reach its Sustainable Development Goal
BRINGING MATERNAL CARE CLOSER TO WOMEN IN KINSHASA’S POOR URBAN DISTRICTS
Kinshasa, one of Africa’s fastest growing megacities in one of the world’s poorest countries, has sprawling slums in which many inhabitants – many of whom live on $2 a day
INNOVATING FOR MOTHERS CHALLENGE LAUNCHED TO IMPROVE MATERNAL & NEWBORN HEALTH CARE IN SENEGAL
Innovating for Mothers Challenge launched to improve maternal and newborn health care in Senegal
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.
COVID-19 PREVENTION IN POOR URBAN DISTRICTS OF KINSHASA
Tuesday morning in the Matete district of Kinshasa: the sound of health messages through megaphones permeates the community.
PROMOTING GIRLS’ LITERACY AND LIFE SKILLS IN URBAN SLUMS
Girls Dreams (GD) was MAR’s first project that focused on leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to change their future through education and empowerment, in a hope that they become mothers later and by choice and with...
MOBILE CLINIC SAVES LIVES
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world and has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the Western hemisphere. The chances of a woman dying due to pregnancy and childbirth in Haiti are estimated to be one...
THE LAST MILE: REACHING MOTHERS AND BABIES IN THE REMOTEST AREAS
MAR has been supporting for years the maternal health of women in the remote Kokuselei Valley, in Turkana, northeast Kenya. Turkana is an isolated, arid, semi-desert region that lacks the most basic infrastructure and services. Its...
TRAINING TANZANIAN NURSES TO PROVIDE LIFE-SAVING CARE
Tanzania continues to have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Africa and the world, with women facing a 1-in-45 chances of dying from pregnancy or childbirth complications, compared to 1 in 10,000 in high-income countries....
ADDRESSING THE RISKS OF TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
Nicaragua has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world. The consequences of adolescent childbearing include higher risks of pregnancy complications and maternal mortality (adolescent girls are up to five times more...
DATA PROVIDES MATERNAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
MAR launched one of its very first maternal health projects in Yantalo, a small rural village in San Martin province, in northern Peru. The people who live in this part of the upper Amazon rainforest are extremely poor. In fact, over...
“It is beautiful to see the strength of a mother who has walked for hours to ask for help. It is beautiful to see her happy and proud because somebody was there when she needed them. It is beautiful to know that because of Mothers at Risk we can offer women like this the support they need”
– MCSPA, Eleni Tsegaw Kenya partner
OUR WORK IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND SUPPORTERS
WHO SHARE OUR GOAL OF SAVING THE LIVES OF WOMEN AND BABIES
