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Jul 27, 2015

Robin Lim’s Nepali Notebook

A special essay by our friend and grantee, Ibu Robin Lim, midwife and founder of Bumi Sehat Foundation International, in honor of the three month anniversary of the massive earthquakes that struck Nepal this year.

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Jul 1, 2015

A Day in the Life of Brooklyn-based Doula, Chanel Porchia-Albert

Doula Chanel Porchia-Albert’s mission? To provide support, education and information to pregnant, low-income women of color.

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Jun 19, 2015

Sukti Dhital and Lynsey Addario Document The Big Impact That Comes With Local Advocacy

When award-winning photojournalist, Lynsey Addario, travelled to India to visit our grantees at Nazdeek, she witnessed the power of advocacy to save mothers’ lives.

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May 28, 2015

An Update from Nepal

Arlene Samen, founder and executive director of One Heart World-Wide, just got off the plane after two-and-a-half weeks in Nepal.
Arlene is still struggling to process all she’s seen and experienced in this first month since a 7.9 earthquake devastated Nepal on April 25. Today, she shares…

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May 14, 2015

Chanel Porchia-Albert and her mission to help New York’s mothers

Chanel Porchia-Albert, doula, founder of Ancient Song Doula Services and a mom we love.

In addition to seeing clients who need doula services and attending births, Chanel runs Ancient Song, a Brooklyn-based program…

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May 4, 2015

Announcing an emergency grant in Nepal

As Nepal’s death toll rises, so do the number of women who are giving birth in extremely difficult circumstances.

UNFPA estimates that at least 126,000 pregnant women are among the survivors of last week’s earthquake and with health systems shut off, as many as…

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Feb 20, 2015

FAME on, “Friday Night Lights”

A powerful and impactful story about FAME, our first grantee in Tanzania.

FAME nurse practitioner, Kelley Brennan, describes a Friday night in the operating room that saved the life of a mother and baby.

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Feb 18, 2015

Announcing Our First Grant in Tanzania

As our team heads to Tanzania next week, Every Mother Counts announces our first grant in Karatu, Tanzania.

We’ll be funding a one-year grant of $149,450 to the Foundation for African Medicine and Education (“FAME”) to address two critical barriers to pregnant…

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Jan 13, 2015

Post-Graduation, Juslène Regulus talks being a Midwife in Haiti

Haiti remains in our thoughts this week as we share the below post from the Midwives for Haiti staff on the work of recent midwifery school graduate, Juslène.

In the years we’ve been visiting and providing grants in…

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Dec 4, 2014

Mothers in India — How Legal Education Can Save Mothers’ Lives

Check out Nazdeek’s photo essay, on the story of three women attending legal literacy classes with Nazdeek.

As we’ve seen in the news recently, many mothers in India face almost insurmountable…