What are you doing this Mother’s Day?
Join the first ever March for Mothers and put your best foot forward to make pregnancy and childbirth safer for mums and babies.
Give the Gift of Life this Mother’s Day
What?:
A 5km or 10km sponsored walk to help raise funds for Health Poverty Action’s work enabling women around the world to give birth safely
When?:
17 March 2012 – the Saturday before Mothers’ Day
Where?:
London, Greenwich Park
Why?:
The aim is to raise awareness of the 340,000 women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth, while also raising funds to help save the lives of mums and babies in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Together at the march, we will highlight the long walks many of the world’s poorest women must endure in seeking out a health clinic during pregnancy.
March for Mothers is for everyone: mums, dads, children, aunties, uncles, friends… So why not get together and prepare to put your best foot forward on 17 March.
Both routes are over easy ground, ideal for mums with pushchairs and mums-to-be. So please come and join us, even if you have your own bump on board. The 5km walk is suitable for all ages. Give a mother’s day present with a difference and get friends and family together to give the gift of life and hope to very vulnerable mothers and children.
Sign up now!
Register for March for Mothers today and help us to transform the lives of some of the world’s poorest mothers and babies and we’ll send you a T-shirt and fundraising pack. All walkers will also receive a special goody bag choc-full of snacks and things to pamper yourself with as our thanks to you.
Adult Registration: £10 (+ £100 sponsorship target)
Child/ Student Registration: £5 (+ £50 sponsorship target)
What your sponsorship could do:
£100 could provide medicines in a childbirth emergency
£200 could provide breast feeding support and antenatal care for a group of new mothers
£500 could provide a safe birthing hut
£750 could train a midwife in essential life-saving skills.
Mother’s Day Card Campaign
Joined by the Mayor of Greenwich, walkers at March for Mothers will have the opportunity to sign Health Poverty Action’s giant Mother’s Day card on March 17th asking the UK government to do more to support vulnerbale mothers. You can join the campaign by signing up to take part!
March for Mothers walker Charlotte Dando from Huddersfield shares her reasons for joining the March:
“I’m excited to be joining the March for Mothers and I’ll be walking with my own mother and sister to highlight the injustices facing women throughout the world. My mum plays a pivotal role in my life and therefore I feel that March for Mothers, a campaign which supports and values the role of mothers in the world’s poorest countries, is essential.”
“I’m walking 5k because that is how far a pregnant woman in Sierra Leone has to walk to find her nearest health clinic”
To join Charlotte at the March, sign up here. Spaces are filling fast so register today to secure your place and to out your best foot forward to give a gift with a difference this Mother’s Day.
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mountain village in eastern Burma. While her baby was safely delivered, the placenta (or afterbirth) remained in her body, leaving Maly in danger of excessive bleeding (called postpartum haemorrhage), which is the main cause of death in childbirth. In a panic, Maly’s husband rushed to fetch a local midwife, Sopheap. She found Maly lying in bed bleeding while a local ‘healer’ danced around her, chanting to expel the ‘evil’ from Maly’s body. With Maly getting weaker by the minute, Sopheap bravely intervened. She knew exactly what to do because she had been trained by Health Poverty Action…Maly’s Story
19-year-old Maly nearly died giving birth to her first child in a tiny
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Last modified: 15/02/2012
