Women's Health Groups
Martha with her daughter
“In our group we learnt about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
"They act like a support group for me. Once I missed my treatment. The group encouraged me to start again. My babies were given treatment too, meaning I could breastfeed them.”
Would you please help us establish more lifesaving, life-changing community health groups this Christmas? Your gift can help more women, children, and young people to survive and thrive.
It’s needed more than ever.
Florida Malamba, a former community health group supervisor and programme manager in Malawi, currently uses her experience to provide guidance, advice and training on running groups. She will support Women and Children First with further training across Africa.
She is sharing some of her stories and experiences of working in community health groups.
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Annemijn Sondaal, Programmes Manager, with the health officials being trained in how to run community health groups, using the PLA methodology
Women and Children First has been working in Tanzania training local health officials to organise and run community health groups. The groups, starting this summer, will support pregnant women to address critical maternal health problems such as malnutrition and anaemia.
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Immaculate Apio shares her story
Immaculate Apio shares her story from Uganda about what she learnt about pregnancy and women’s health from the group meetings that she attended. These groups use a technique called PLA - Participatory Learning Action - to identify problems and solutions to their local health problems and concerns. This technique is pioneered and championed by the charity.
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A health group supervisor brings their community together to talk about the coronavirus. Households and groups are observing social distancing, staying apart to hear the important information.
While restrictions are starting to lift in the UK and throughout Europe, in Uganda there are growing concerns from the President about a ‘more dangerous phase’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But there’s also hope and optimism, thanks to the work of Women and Children First and our partners.
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A pregnant woman holds her bump. Photo by freestocks.org from Pexels
An expectant mother is writing a blog for Women and Children First to describe her experiences of pregnancy during the coronavirus - and juxtaposing it with the experiences in countries where the charity works.
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The clinic in Thunder Hill, Sierra Leone, built and arranged by the women’s health group led by Mafere
Mafere is the leader of the ‘Hands Together’ community group in Thunder Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Together, the group achieved their dream – building a brand-new clinic to help women and children.
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A Ugandan mother holds her baby in a blanket
Women and Children First is asking for nominations to win a £1,000 Movement for Good award, with votes needed by Sunday 24th May.
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Women in Ethiopia have made a stretcher to help people get to a hospital or health centre
The coronavirus crisis has seen communities coming together. People are providing support to others in their time of need. This is similar to the work of Women and Children First in the world’s poorest countries. The building blocks of our group approach could help you and your local community to support those in need.
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