A simple innovation that saves lives
Imagine driving for hours down a bumpy rural track while in labour.
For many expectant mothers in the Mahama refugee camp, Rwanda, this was their reality. For many, sadly, it was a fatal reality.
At Save the Children, we believe all women and babies deserve the right to a safe birth, whatever their circumstances, so we set up a maternity unit within the camp and partnered with a drone delivery company so that vital medicine and supplies could be delivered in minutes by air.
Without our team of over 300,000 regular donors, long-term projects like this simply would not be possible.
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Photo credit: Yagazie Emezi / Save the Children
Ensuring Lasting Change from Day One
No one should have to give birth alone and risk losing their baby or their life.
Photo credit: Yagazie Emezi / Save the Children
From training midwives through to setting up Emergency Health Units, we work to enable safe birth.
It's the very first of many ways that we help to create lasting change for and with children.
Anne (pictured), one of our Midwives in Rwanda, works in a maternity ward at a medical facility run by Save the Children in Mahama Refugee Camp.
Midwives like Anne go where they’re needed most – from war zones and refugee camps, to borders and remote communities.
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Every child has a unique story. We help children rewrite theirs.
Save the Children fights for children every single day so they can fulfil their unique potential.
Month after month, in the UK and around the world, we make sure children stay safe, healthy and keep learning, so they can become who they want to be.
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