Every woman deserves a safe birth experience
Yet every year, half a million women die in pregnancy and childbirth. Four million infants are stillborn. And another four million die before they're a month old. Sadly, 99 percent of these deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries. Women give birth at home, often alone, and usually without medical care.
It doesn't have to be this way
In the ten years since One Heart World-Wide has been in Tibet, unattended home births dropped from 85 to 20 percent. Newborn deaths plummeted from ten to three percent. There's no doubt our replicable model reduces preventable deaths among vulnerable populations. Now we're ready to expand to Nepal and Mexico.
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One Heart Nepal
Every single day in Nepal, 12 mothers die in childbirth. Every day, 75 newborns die along with them. In the Himalaya's Baglung District, where 250,000 people live in isolated communities, 95 percent of pregnant women give birth without any trained medical help. No wonder that almost half of the maternal deaths happen in isolated huts or on desperate, hours-long treks to find care. With your help, we can give pregnant women and newborns babies in rural Nepal a better chance to survive.
One Heart Mexico
The Tarahumara people in Mexico's Copper Canyon region of suffer from one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in North America. Although they represent just 3 percent of Chihuahua's population, Tarahumara women account for 38 percent of maternal deaths. Nearly half of their children die before they're five years old; a quarter of those die in their first month. As very few Tarahumaras have sewage or electricity, we have our work cut out for us. Together, we can make a difference.
One Heart China
For every 1,000 live births in the Qinghai Province of China, there are 20 infants who die. For every 100,000 women who survive childbirth, there are 100 who don't. The journey to the nearest hospital is long, mountainous and nearly impossible for a pregnant woman on foot. So most mothers-to-be get no medical care during their pregnancies and have only the prayers of their families to get them through the delivery. Help us save lives.
One Heart Tibet
When we began working in the Medro Gongkar and Dulong Counties of the Lhasa Prefecture in Tibet, one in 33 women died in childbirth every year. After a lot of hard work and support from our generous donors, we were able to reduce that figure to ZERO. Being able to report that there were no maternal deaths in this area in 2008, and that newborn deaths had plummeted from ten to three percent, was the proudest moment in One Heart's ten-year history.
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