First Aiders Receiving New Supplies!

First Aiders loading their emergency kits onto a box to be transported throughout the villages. The First Aid clubs serve more than 35 villages in the Buyanga Sub-County, providing basic first aid care and referrals as needed to people who live miles away from a health facility. Well done Buyanga First Aiders, and special thanks to MedShare for helping contribute some of the first aid supplies!

MABEDA Outreach Promotes Maternal and Child Health

Last week, SAFE Community Group, Matove Beads Development Association (MABEDA) held an outreach event. Events like this allow the community members to perform educational dramas and songs that they write about maternal and child health. Subjects that they cover include everything from the importance of delivering in a health center to the signs and symptoms of malaria (and how to prevent and treat it) to hygiene to gender equality.

Above picture: some of the children who attended the event with their parents--never to young to learn about the importance of good maternal and child health! Way to go MABEDA!

Childbirth education!

Early this week, te SAFE team worked with We Care Solar to install a solar system at a rural health center. When they arrived, more than 100 women had come to celebrate the installation and attend antenatal care clinic. The health center asked the SAFE team to provide some prenatal education. In this picture, 124 women learn about what they should expect during late pregnancy and childbirth!