Only 1% of mothers and infants were receiving critical postnatal care at Hospital Ste. Therese in Haiti prior to the launch of the Postnatal Care Program by Midwives For Haiti. See the astonishing results and how your support will save more lives.

1. Project Postnatal
Increasing access to critical postnatal care in Haiti
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2. We’ve been training skilled birth
attendants for 8 years.
Our graduates provide prenatal care in
remote villages.
They also work in hospitals and birth
centers throughout the country.
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3. Haiti is the most
dangerous country in
the W. Hemisphere to be
pregnant or an infant.
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4. Women and babies
need the knowledge and
compassion of skilled
birth attendants before,
during, and after
delivery.
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5. Up to 50% of maternal and
newborn deaths occur in the first
24-48 hours after childbirth.
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6. Midwives For Haiti © 2014
We work at Hospital Ste. Therese, the
public referral hospital in Hinche.
Only 1% of patients received
postnatal care here in 2013.
Of 2,143 deliveries, that’s 21
mothers and newborns the
entire year.

7. Meet Juslene and Illa,
our new Postnatal Care Team
at Hospital Ste. Therese.
They are providing care to
women and babies after delivery.
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8. Midwives For Haiti © 2014
In three months they’ve
provided postnatal care to
89465% of all deliveries, or women and
babies.

9. Midwives For Haiti © 2014
Illa, Juslene, and the
moms and babies at
Hospital Ste. Therese
need your help.

10. Project Postnatal:
• Increase postnatal care to 100%
• Improve the maternity ward
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11. Midwives For Haiti © 2014
Your donations
will help us:
• Hire 2 more
postnatal skilled
birth attendants
• Provide the tools
the team needs to
do their jobs
• Make the hospital a
healthier place

12. Postnatal care saves lives.
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13. Please help us
reach 100% of
moms and babies.
#ProjectPostnatal
Donate today.
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Midwives For Haiti is a 501(c)(3) charity.
All donations are tax deductible. Midwives For Haiti © 2014