| Reach out to the world with JOICFP and
White Ribbon Alliance |
| Every year, 500,000 women
around the world die of pregnancy and birth-related complications.
In addition, there is an overwhelming number of people
who suffer from disease and the aftermath of accidents.
Ninety-nine percent of these deaths occur in developing
countries. These deaths are related to not only the insufficient
health/medical facilities and extremely poor environmental
sanitation prevalent in such areas, but also to various
specific societal factors. |
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In some cases...
•Women are prevented from consuming enough
nutrition by local societal conventions and values.
•Pregnant women in poor households are only able
to eat once or twice per day, and therefore both the women
and the unborn children suffer from lack of nutrition.
In addition, they cannot buy medicine.
•Because of financial constraints, village health
centers do not stock vital medicines. Also, even in cases
where medicine is available, the expiration date has passed,
rendering it useless.
•Bus fare for travel to distant clinics is too costly,
preventing women from using them.
Societal conventions dictate that girls of 12 and 13 are
to marry. Because preteen girls are too physically immature
for pregnancy and delivery, birthing poses a threat to
the lives of both mother and infant.
•Women cannot deliver in a sanitary environment
because hospital fees are too expensive.
•Midwives who come to assist women with delivery
lack the skills and knowledge necessary to perform safe
and sanitary deliveries, and the lives of both the woman
and the infant are exposed to danger. JOICFP works to
provide people victim to the above circumstances with
the following:
•Skills and knowledge training for traditional birth
attendants
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| Home visit conducted by a health worker
to check the health condition of a mother and her baby. |
•Safe delivery kits including
sanitary tools for safe delivery
•Health education and guidance
•Educational materials and supplies
•Nutrition class for villagers to decrease the rate
of malnutrition
•Bicycles for carrying emergency patients to clinics
and for the transportation of midwives and health volunteers
on their household visits
•Medicine
•Income-generating activities to enable villagers
to buy medicine, etc.
The White Ribbon Alliance is a worldwide association whose
purpose is to promote Safe Motherhood. Presently JOICFP
is the only Japanese organization participating in White
Ribbon activities. Please contribute to the White Ribbon
Alliance and JOICFP to help save women's lives! |
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