By Esther Hamilton | CEO
Dear Friends and Supporters,
MAITS would like to extend a warm thanks to all those who have generously donated to MAITS’ Life-saving Infant Feeding Training Liberia/Rwanda project. With your help, we have now managed to raise £2,370, which gets us ever closer to our goal of £21,689. Reaching this goal will allow us not only to deliver the infant feeding training in Liberia, which is the first stage of the training, but also follow up this training in Rwanda where it was successfully piloted with the second stage, the infant weaning training.
Since our last report, we have managed to arrange a small amount of top up training in Rwanda to help with the issues around weaning because this was urgent. The amount we have managed to arrange so far will go towards that training taking place. We have booked flights for our two MAITS experts to travel to Rwanda in September to deliver this.
Winning additional funding would also enable us to run the first stage, the infant feeding training, in Liberia. This training is low cost and incredibly effective in reducing the infant mortality rates by supporting women in feeding their infants in the first few vitals months of motherhood. The successful pilot has in Rwanda has reached 4,400 mothers and babies since February 2018. We aim to duplicate this success in Liberia, which currently has the 19th highest infant mortality rate in the world. By training 26 local healthcare professionals, we would reach 415 mothers and babies to support them through their first year of breastfeeding & weaning. The project will also train 2 local master trainers who can roll out the programme on an ongoing basis with continued clinical supervision by MAITS trainers, making this project sustainable.
We hope that with your continued support we will be able to see these projects save more lives in Rwanda and Liberia. If you would like to see this too, please spread the word about MAITS’ work to your friends, families and colleges
Best wishes,
Esther Hamilton
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