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Every year, MHM provides thousands of people in need with basic medical care, carries out awareness-raising work and creates jobs.
Source of text & photo: www.mobile-hilfe-madagaskar.de
We received a lovely email at Christmas time from one of our partner NGOs, Mobile-Hilfe-Madagaskar – which is very active in Madagascar – from their project manager and midwife, Tanja Hock:
“In the programme ‘Call the Midwife’ this week, I heard: ‘Birth was and will always be the most common place of miracles!’
Anyone who gets to experience our day-to-day life here in Ambovo knows it: we witness miracles, very often! With births, things usually go well, but sometimes it takes a miracle for mum and baby to be safe and well! However, we at MHM see far more miracles than just the obvious ones during births!
Christmas has just passed – and here, too, we see the miracle of birth! Jesus, God became human and came into this world as a baby. He came, so small, so ordinary, and with a great mission! And now we’re heading into a new year. Many unknowns lie ahead for us all! But also new miracles! …”
Tulisa would like to continue helping with this miracle and will cover the costs of a further 21 caesarean sections and 19 births.
Anyone who works in the healthcare sector knows that nothing can be more terrifying for relatives and healthcare staff than a mother dying in childbirth. This is all the more true for poor families in developing countries.
For these families, the death of the mother is a catastrophe that plunges the whole family into misery.
Tanja Hock with a patient and her children: MHM and Tulisa have already successfully helped here togetherAnd this is how the support could work in 2018:
From an email from Tanja to Tulisa (March 2013):
“Hello everyone,
I tried to reach you by phone yesterday evening, so here’s an email instead.
We’ve received an emergency call from the same bush village. A young woman, presumably with an ectopic pregnancy, is in a life-threatening condition. She needs to be brought to the capital by air; travelling overland would take too long and, due to the rainy season, is barely feasible even when she’s in good health.
MAF can’t fly until tomorrow – we hope the woman is still alive by then.
Question for you: maximum cost $1,000. Is this feasible?
Could you perhaps send me a text message to the following numbers? I’m out and about in town, and as today is International Women’s Day, our office is unstaffed.
— 573 91 and –633 53Thank you!
—
Tanja Hock
Midwife
A glimpse into a delivery room in East Africa: a woeful healthcare system and poor hygiene make the conditions for a successful pregnancy and birth extremely difficult.So come on, dear donors!
Tulisa is very happy to help here and will report back to you over the course of the year on the partnership with MHM.