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Society for Women's Education and Awareness Development
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Our heartfelt thanks to the donor agency BKFA / Board and staff members for their support and guidance for SWEAD.
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India has a maternal mortality rate of 540:100,000 live births. 117,000 women die annually from childbirth related causes.
The highest number of any country.
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Aims:
Preventive and control birthing child related infection, reducing child mortality and ensure safe and clean birthing environment for voiceless rural poor women.
Provision of an integrated safe and clean birth training program (Training for trainers - TOT) for rural, midwives and volunteers from 100 villages of Cuddalore district in Tamilnadu.
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The Birthing Kit Project addresses 4 of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); gender equality and empowerment, reduction in child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
The BKFA's strategy to help achieve these MDGs is to ensure a safe and clean birthing environment by providing training to in country health workers (so they can in turn train traditional midwives and mothers) and providing clean birthing kits (to be replaced by local materials from local sources).
Training programmes were initiated in 2005 to complement the distribution of the Birthing Kits. These involved 3 - 5 day training sessions where Traditional Birth Attendants, Health Extension Workers, Village Nurses and health workers were educated in nutrition, general health care, midwifery and issues relating to HIV/AIDS prevention.
These programmes were designed by the local people to meet their needs.
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Mrs.S.Sivakami, Age 68 rural traditional midwives sharing her previous experience of the many birthing cases she had attended.
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An intraction session of training program. Dr.K.Indira M.B.B.S. providing answers to question from trainers.
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Meeting concludes with a Group Discussion
Here we are discussing possible birthing difficulties (physical and social) to better understand the need for assessment to ensure an eventual safe and clean birthing environment.
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