About
India Development Service (IDS) Save-A-Mother project aims to minimize suffering and death associated with pregnancy and child birth. We have been working in partnership with local NGOs in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Many other regions in India and rest of the world are in a similar situation where this program can be replicated.
Every day, over 160 women die in India from pregnancy and complications of child birth.
Save-A-Mother programs educate women about pregnancy, nutrition, immunization, delivery and care of the child. Save-A-Mother has a complementary benefit in saving the child also.
Our Objectives
1. Decrease maternal mortality by 50% in Sultanpur in 5 years. (Pilot Project)
2. Replicate this model to two more districts in 2 more years and institutionalise the program.
3. Replicate the program to vulnerable districts where mortality exceeds the national average.
4. Partner with NGOs in other high MMR countries
Most Common Causes of Maternal Mortality
1. Malnutrition and Anemia
2. Lack of immunization
3. Infection and Sepsis
4. Excessive bleeding
5. Difficult labor and other emergencies
Preventive Solutions
1. Iron, vitamin and nutritional supplements
2. Immunization
3. Antibiotics
4. Check up during pregnancy
5. Institutional delivery
Our Approach
Mobilization: We motivate villages to form a village council and combine adjoining villages into a cluster.
Training: We train two health activists in each village, who educate the villagers.
Meeting: Weekly meeting at the village level and monthly meeting at the cluster level.
Awareness: Education of mothers-to-be and their families, to help them to seek care
Access to Health Care: Ensure check up three times at the local medical facility
Nutrition & Medicines: Provide information about personal and public health.
Institutional delivery: Ensure access and transportation to a local medical facility
We believe that one preventable death is one too many. We urge you to Save-A-Mother and together we can save a million mothers.