You are invited to donate to the tin of change.
This cyber-initiative is about inviting contributions from the dynamic people who ever-cultivate my life, with the intention of enriching the lives of childbearing families in Africa...
Ms.Anne-Marie will be leaving home for a couple of months this summer to spend time learning and sharing with midwives in Uganda (central Africa). In her baby catching hands, she intends to carry a tin of change.
Your change will be used to provide medical supplies to the families of newborns; the upcoming generation that holds Africa's future in their sweet little hands...
Put yourself in a Ugandan shoe...
- Your life expectancy is less than fifty years
- AIDS will claim tens of thousands of your country's population this year; you will feel this loss of life as it effects the labour market, your healthcare system, your community, your family...
- HIV rates are on the decline; international funding for educational programs are working in Uganda
- Of every twelve children you know, one is an orphan
- Access to education and healthcare will reduce the number of parentless families in your community
- Less than four out of every ten pregnant women you know will have a skilled attendant at their birth; compare this to the nearly 100% of women in Canada who will be supported by a birth attendant to have a safe childbirth experience
- Of the women who die during childbirth, 80% of them will die from a preventable cause
- Sterile gloves and oxytocin (a hormone-simulating drug that effectively reduces maternal hemorrhage after giving birth) are inexpensive supplies that can be purchased with a mere TIN OF CHANGE
If you still need some encouragement to donate, read on for the top 5 reasons why you should contribute to the tin of change:
5 - You've probably got some guilt brewing somewhere in your mind from something in your past. Donating to the tin of change will appease all guilt.
4 - I can almost ascertain that I've got less money than you, but there's always change to put forth.
3 - I'm not planning on getting married, so this acts as a suitable substitute for a wedding gift.
2 - This is a rad charity; 100% of donations will reach the hands of those who we're hoping to support.
1 - You are human...and by donating to the tin, you can automatically add an "e" to your existence...making you humane, indeed so very humane.
Conclusion: they need what we can provide, so please join together and support some change.
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If you really feel like you have no change to spare, please support the initiative by forwarding the project information to friends/family who will contribute to some grassroots moving and shaking!
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YOUR DONATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MAY 31st, but why wait when you can donate ahora!!
“The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.” ~George Kimble~
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Learn more...
World Health Organization - Maternal and Perinatal Conditions
http://www.who.int/inf-new/mate.htm
World Health Organization - Uganda
http://www.who.int/countries/uga/en/
Stephen Lewis Talkin' Maternal Health
http://www.realizingrights.org/?option=content&task=view&id=131
USAID - Maternal and Child Health in Uganda
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/mch/mh/countries/uganda.html
University of British Columbia Midwifery Program
www.midwifery.ubc.ca
3 comments:
Hi Anne Marie, What a wonderful website and a wonderful cause. Congratulations and good luck in your pursuit. I will try to get what I can to you.
Be Safe over there,
Sincerely Amy Chris
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