Our Works in Sierra Leone
The Issues
Sub Saharan Africa records the world’s highest newborn and maternal mortality rate with 200,000 maternal deaths every year,
accounting for about 68% of the world’s maternal death. Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world with an estimated 1,165 deaths per 100,000 live births according to the United Nations.
Most of these deaths are from hypertension and post-partum hemorrhaging. A hard to swallow reality for people in a developed nation:
1 in 17 mothers in Sierra Leone has a life-threatening risk associated with childbirth.
Being infrastructurally shattered following the Civil War and short of medical professionals, families were often dependent on birth attendants due to lack of access to timely or adequate health care services.
Our Actions
In spite of, the Free Healthcare Initiative introduced by the government of Sierra Leone in 2010 to provide for the expectant
and new mothers, the country’s healthcare system is quite limited in its services especially because of an upsurge in demand
and recurring resource shortage. It requires the government as well as civil society bodies to come together and change the
local scenario with passion and respect for our people.
We are working on creating a maternity care system where pregnant women with high blood and diabetes will receive adequate
health care that will result in a safe delivery for both mother and child.
