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Great Week for CleanBirth

IMG_0109This week has been a great one for CleanBirth.org.  Hopefully more supporters will find us as a result of these developments:

First we were featured in Girls Globe in post I wrote about Millennium Development Goal #5.  Here’s how the post begins:

As we approach the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, it is clear that many countries will not achieve the 75% reduction in maternal mortality prescribed by MGD Goal 5.  According to the World Bank, “…of all the MDGs, the least progress has been made toward the maternal health goal.”

Here’s the full post http://girlsglobe.org/2015/09/23/mdg-5-moms-still-need-our-help-especially-in-rural-areas/

Then, just today, we learned that CleanBirth.org was just selected as a client for Yale School of Management’s Outreach Nonprofit Consulting Club. http://groups.som.yale.edu/outreach/home/

Our proposal is for the students to develop a marketing plan for CleanBirth cards (Baby Shower, Birth Provider, etc..). So thrilled to have their help on this. By expanding our card sales, we will make the organization more sustainable!

I will be making presentation to potential team-mates in 2 weeks!

 

Review What We Do

This week I did a review for our Facebook friends about what CleanBirth does everyday with your donations:IMG_1322Khuaset Nyai trainingRed hat babiesBoxes of kits

Our $5 birth kits contain infection preventing items: soap, gloves, 2 cord clamps, a sterile blade, 2 sterile pads: one for placing under mother and one for covering baby when she’s laying on mother. We also include photograph instructions that show in pictures how to use the kit.

Our Kits make the difference between life and death to moms birthing at home without a trained attendant. We train nurses to distribute the kits, sit with families and train them in the kit use, and follow up with mothers after birth.

We not only provide birth kits and training but we ensure that the kits make it to some of the most remote places in Laos. Moms in these villages often birth alone — making the sterile supplies and the birth counseling we fund critical to safe outcomes.

Mother’s Day Easy as 1-2-3

This Mother’s Day you can change lives, as you make mom feel so special.  Easy as 1-2-3. This is the best way to celebrate Mother’s Day.  It’s a great gift idea for mom and the best way to say “Happy Mother’s Day.”  Give her the message that she has made a difference in your life — while making a difference in the lives of others!

Order your custom cards today — choose whatever name you call mom or grandma and we’ll stamp it! https://www.etsy.com/shop/CleanBirthGifts

MOMsDAY

CleanBirth in book: “100 Under $100”

10561821_1095980050417362_4855822323669706933_nWe are so proud to have CleanBirth.org featured in the book 100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women.  I just received my copy this week and its incredible to see our small but mighty org listed.

Yesterday, the author Betsy Teutsch featured us in a blog post that she wrote on Kveller.com! (http://www.kveller.com/how-to-help-the-worlds-poorest-women-give-birth-safely/) Here’s a quote from the article:

“In each of my book’s 100 entries, I include an actionable item. CleanBirth.org focuses on Laos, a country with very high maternal death rates. For a $10 contribution, donors underwrite the cost of two Clean Birth Kits, provided to a nurse who both educates her pregnant patients and provides them with kits. CleanBirth offers attractive gift cards, making it easy to extend the blessings of the safe childbirth we take for granted to places where something as simple as a birth kit can save lives. The also sell Birth Provider Thank-You Cards for expressing gratitude to the doula, midwife, labor nurse, Ob-Gyn, and pediatrician.”

So thrilled that we get a mention as an “actionable” item and to be included in this amazing book.

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