by Sheila Simms Watson
Mrs. Koroma will be arriving at Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery in Winter Garden, FL on March 14th for a week long emergency skills training , sharing and resource development. Her dogged determination against all odds is deeply appreciated and admired. Please support this cause - donate @ developmentforafrica.org/donate or info@developmentforafrica.org.
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Tour dates announced for AAPDEP’s "Stop the Hemorrhaging!" Tour
Black History Month is not only an opportunity to remember people and events shaping our past, but also a time to reflect on—and challenge—the current contradictions facing African communities.
The disproportionately high death rates amongst African mothers and babies makes infant and maternal health one of the most critical threats to the future of African families the world over.
The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is holding a tour during Black History Month to increase awareness of this neglected issue, while also generating resources for a clinic in Sierra Leone, which suffers from the highest global rates of maternal mortality.
The statistics are shocking and indisputable, yet often remain unreported.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa face a maternal mortality rate a hundred times greater than that of “developed” countries and nearly one in ten infants will not to live to the age of one year.
Headlining the tour will be Nurse Mary Koroma. Nurse Mary has dedicated her life to saving those of mothers and babies in her native Sierra Leone.
Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | PermalinkAnd black women in the US are four times more likely to die of pregnancy related complications than their white counterparts, with black babies dying at more than twice the rate of white infants.
Headlining the tour will be Nurse Mary Koroma. Nurse Mary has dedicated her life to saving those of mothers and babies in her native Sierra Leone.
She is a certified Nurse Midwife who stepped down from her secure position in a government hospital to work within the communities most in need.
With few able to even afford what passes as government healthcare, she witnessed expectant women and infants senselessly dying and suffering, as the massive wealth of Sierra Leone that could provide quality health care is looted.
As a nurse midwife, whose job it is to save lives and bring new life into the world, she could no longer be a part of an apparatus that contributed to the deaths of thousands of women and children. Read More
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