SAVE A MOTHER SAVE A CHILD

In every society, children make up approximately half of the community population and their mothers another one-fifth. Mothers and their children run a great risk of injury and disease because their lives are concerned with beginnings and growth. World over, hundreds of thousands of women die from complications during pregnancy or childbirth each year; that’s one woman dying nearly every minute of each day-and millions more left with life-altering disabilities. Uganda’s Maternal Mortality Ratio is currently at 435 deaths per 100,000 live births.  This translates to about 6,000 women dying every year due to pregnancy related causes. As Uganda celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year, TUMU Foundation together with its partners are looking at saving Uganda’s next 50 years and we are saying, no mother should die while giving another life. A mother needs considerable motivation and understanding to bring herself and her children to maternal health clinic regularly. It is often very difficult to ignore a crying child who is sick, but it is easy to forget about vaccinations or antenatal care or child spacing.

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The ‘Save a Mother, Save a child’ is a three months campaign aimed at combating national and local efforts towards saving lives of mothers and children who die or develop lifelong complications during delivery as a result of preventable causes. The campaign is designed on a premise that local communities can play an instrumental role in changing attitudes and supporting the efforts towards improving maternal, newborn and child health. The campaign will focus on mobilizing local resources and empowering women and girls of child bearing age with resources and adequate information so as to prevent avoidable and last minute emergencies as women can access maternal, neonatal & child health advice from trained and skilled health professionals.

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How you can participate

• ​Participate in our community awareness campaigns
• Donate a few dollars to enable the Foundation to: ​​​​​​

1.  Conduct maternal health outreach activities in remote areas of Buhweju
2. Offer free HIV testing, prevention-of-mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), antenatal check-up, neonatal and child health advice benefiting at least 50 nee
3. Conduct a Maternal Health Care clinic at TUMU Hospital every Thursday
4. Provide a new born kit to 10 needy mothers

• Offer free publicity inform of free radio or TV Talk-show
• Sponsor the Launch of the Campaign or any of the community awareness campaigns
• Offer professional time in offering maternal healthcare services to needy women

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