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Honor Your Mother by Saving Another
Its about that time! At Saving Mother’s we believe that no woman should die giving life, and we’ve made it our goal to combat preventable maternal mortality worldwide. This Mother’s Day you can help our efforts overseas by purchasing one of our beautiful Mother’s Day ECards to send to your mother. All proceeds from our…
Read MoreWoman of the Week: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
An indigenous Guatemalan woman of the K’iche’ branch of the Mayan culture, Rigoberta Menchú has dedicated her life to promoting the rights of indigenous peoples. She became active in the women’s rights movement as a teenager and later was a prominent workers’ rights advocate. In 1992 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition…
Read MoreThe After Life of Soap
Saving Mothers provides women in developing nations with safe birth kits for labor. In these birth kits, there are items such as soap to provide for a clean and safe delivery. We want to thank the various hotels that have donated soap to our organization. These hotels include the Maritime Hotel, Hotel Elysee, Viceroy Central…
Read MoreNational Safe Motherhood Day
It’s National Safe Motherhood Day. On this day we recognize the 343,000 women in developing nations that die during childbirth each year because of unsafe and unsanitary conditions. It’s time we invest in maternal health.
Read More2nd Week of the School of POWHER
WEEK 2 of our fourth School of POWHER Program in Guatemala: This class is the reproductive anatomy class our local staff loves to do every year as it speaks about reproductive anatomy, sex, and orgasms; all topics never spoken about publicly or privately in Guatemala. Most women Saving Mothers encounters and works with have never…
Read MoreWhat makes Saving Mothers different?
What makes Saving Mothers different then other nonprofits? 1) We create sustainable programs in developing nations, training local healthcare providers on safe pregnancy and delivery 2) We are trained physicians and global health experts 3) We conduct research on our programming, ensuring that we are creating the most effective programs abroad 4) We have formed…
Read MoreAlmost half of U.S. Adults have HPV
Almost half of U.S. adults have HPV, the virus responsible for causing genital warts and cervical cancer, and the most commonly sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Know your body, advance your health. Read the full article here: http://time.com/4727871/human-papillomavirus-hpv-sti/
Read MoreWhy women need access to contraceptives
“Contraceptives are one of the greatest antipoverty innovations the world has ever seen, and we can give women access to them,” Melinda Gates. At Saving Mothers, we believe that contraceptives will allow women to lead the life that they want to live. With contraceptives, women can be lifted out of poverty, children can stay in…
Read MoreWorld Health Worker Week
#WHWWeek honors health workers who dedicate their lives to improving health in their own communities. Thank you to all of the health workers who have worked to eradicate preventable maternal deaths worldwide.
Read MoreTrump has defunded UN Population Fund
All funding to the UN’s Family Planning Agency has been cut. This is truly detrimental to the lives of women globally. The agencies funding has prevented an estimated 320,000 unintended pregnancies, averted almost 100,000 unsafe abortions, prevented about 10,000 maternal deaths, and enabled about 800,000 people to have access to contraception. And this was just…
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