Daring to Deliver: Midwives on the Frontlines
Midwives are often on the frontlines of health care in developing countries, delivering crucial patient-centered care to women and their
Midwives are often on the frontlines of health care in developing countries, delivering crucial patient-centered care to women and their
Duration: 2011-2017 Location: Pakistan Reach: 252,000 people (114,200 women and 137,800 men) Budget: $19 million (Global Affairs Canada: $16 million; AKFC:
Duration: 2012-2018 Location: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Egypt, Uganda, India, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania
AQCESS is improving the health of mothers, pregnant women, newborns, and children in Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, and Pakistan.
Duration: 2018-2024 Location: Afghanistan, Pakistan Reach: 37,000 pregnant women Budget:$2.179 million (Grand Challenges Canada: $1.1 million; AKFC: $1 million; Other: 79K)
We were all once children. We were all once young, full of hope and potential.
Lal and Samantha live worlds apart, but their lives are more similar than it seems at first glance.
For vulnerable communities in remote, high mountain valleys across Central Asia, lives are changing.
Four years ago, Laya Hoor took a walk through the village of Ghulmet, on the banks of the Hunza River. The craggy peaks of northern Pakistan’s mountain ranges rose around her on all sides, so high that they skimmed the clouds drifting by.