Please help to ensure that women across the world can give birth safely. Even a small amount can make a huge difference.
Every day nearly 1000 women die in pregnancy and childbirth, that’s 358,000 mothers each year. Most live in the poorest countries in the world.
The average cost of a delivery by a trained professional in a hospital in Ethiopia is only £15. To most people in the developed world this is a small price; to people in Western Ethiopia for example, where the average yearly wage is only £110 (US$185), it is often unaffordable.
Here are some examples of how your gift will help to save lives:
| £1 | Pays for antibiotics to pay for a course of treatment, to prevent infection post childbirth |
| £5 | Pays for IV drugs and fluid for a Caesarean Section |
| £15 | Sponsors a safe birth |
| £50 | Sponsors a caesarean section |
| £100 | Buys resources and aids for a locally based maternal health promotion programme |
| £500 | Provides the annual salary of a junior midwife |
| £600 | Provides essential radio links between outlying clinics and the central hospital |
| £1000 | Pays for vital equipment to upgrade a clinic to be able to provide skilled maternity care |
| £1500 | Sponsors an individual through a year of midwifery training |
