If you are reading this, there's a good chance that you already know that thousands of women and babies die each year from complications of pregnancy, childbirth or delivery. You also probably know that most of these women and young children in poor countries. There are long-term sustainable approaches that can respond to these situations?
The empowerment of women through community mobilization.
For more than a decade, women and children first worked on the health of mothers and newborns in order to empower women and their communities to find their own solutions to their mothers and newborn health problems.
Authorize [ɪmpaʊə]: For (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling to make their lives and their rights.
By using a model of participatory approach over a period of two years to groups of women who often identify illiterate and poor people in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and prioritize health problems mother and newborn in his community. The local women are also strategies to address these problems, take action on local strategies and assess their effects identified. During the entire life cycle of groups according to their interests, priorities and women discuss issues in child and maternal health. In order to capture the interest of the group and to communicate effectively, stories, role playing, with picture cards and singing and dancing are often used.
The great strength of using this model is that women often have for the first time to hear their opinions and have a voice.
Shapla, a woman who visited a group of women in Bangladesh, said:
If you give a person food, to be completed in one day. But the information is more important than food. It helps us take care of ourselves and our families better.
By identifying solutions to the challenges facing women women's groups in their own communities, they were able to develop sustainable solutions and low cost; This demonstration of the ability of a community to respond to your questions about the health of mothers and newborns, if they are entitled to do so. Solutions include a bicycle ambulance to bring women into the work, to have to help the next health, savings and loan programs, women paid when medical intervention and videos about breast health awareness is necessary, and the newly born. This approach has proved successful programs that are officially recommended as an intervention on the basis of human rights, to improve world health organization, the health of mothers and newborns.
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