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Take Action: Empower Afghan Women with Midwife Training
One in fifteen Afghan women die due to complications during pregnancy. Help put a stop to these unnecessary deaths.
Goal: 20,000
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Progress: 3,683
Sponsored by: The Hunger Site
While here in America we have excellent medical care when it comes to childbirth, women in third-world countries such as Afghanistan often don't have access to maternal care of any kind. Pregnancy can bring on complications that these women aren't properly prepared to address due to the lack of prenatal healthcare.
Providing Afghan women with midwife training and education could mean the preservation of more lives— both mothers and children. Sign the petition below asking Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to lend her support to empowering Afghan women with the medical training that could save lives.
Dear Director-General Margaret Chan,
Pregnancy and childbirth are supposed to be the most joyful and rewarding experiences of a woman's life, yet countless women in Afghanistan face just the opposite type of situation during pregnancy. Because of the poor health conditions in the region, women suffer horribly when it comes to prenatal care.
We can help Afghan women sustain peaceful pregnancies and bear healthy children by providing willing citizens with midwife medical training. By empowering women with the skills and knowledge to care for others during pregnancy, we can reduce the need for doctors whose services are needed elsewhere while still providing pregnant women with quality treatment. In doing this we can also ensure that less women will experience complications and death during childbirth.
Please work toward educating Afghan women in midwife care so that more of them have the chance to survive and prosper during and after childbirth.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Richard Bosboom
May 12, 2013
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May 8, 2013
Tracey McGill
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 8, 2013
luxcika krishnapillai
May 4, 2013
Linda Taylor
May 4, 2013
Rachael Pappano
May 3, 2013
rosanna ammendolia
May 3, 2013
Mary Thomas
May 3, 2013
Marcia Mitcheltree
May 3, 2013
Karen Peralta
May 3, 2013
Gabriele Ansay
May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
Evelyn Adams
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
luxcika krishnapillai
Apr 28, 2013
James Herther
Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 27, 2013
Karolina Kunka
Apr 26, 2013
Ellie Peterson
Apr 22, 2013
Alicia Caraballo
Apr 22, 2013
Tom Pitman
Apr 22, 2013
Ernst Mecke
Apr 22, 2013
Stephanie Reap
Apr 22, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
Zee Kallah
Apr 20, 2013
Maryalice Templeman
Apr 20, 2013
Stacey Calvert
Apr 20, 2013
Gilson Melo
Apr 20, 2013
Paolo Marini
Apr 16, 2013
P. Burns
Apr 16, 2013
Imaan Bee
Apr 15, 2013
baez stephanie
Apr 14, 2013
Marie-laurence Yans
Apr 13, 2013
Alan kardoff
Midwife training should be provided to Afghan women and those in other societies as well. Midwives help save many lives (babies) and teach mothers proper care for their children. This is essential. They play a key role in health service in their areas.
Apr 12, 2013
Ximena Ortiz
Apr 11, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 11, 2013
vanny sterling
Apr 11, 2013
Nerry Jimenez
Apr 11, 2013
Laura Garcia
Apr 11, 2013
Barbara Couch
Apr 10, 2013
Ignacio Garcia
Apr 10, 2013
Diana Sommerville
Apr 10, 2013
Luiz Garcia
Apr 10, 2013
dave falcon
Apr 10, 2013
Ellen Levine
Apr 10, 2013
Dolly Lakra
Apr 8, 2013
Candace Faggen
Apr 8, 2013
Thea Clark
Apr 6, 2013
ffion hatherall
