Safe Motherhood in Kabarole — Maternal Health Outreach

Every Birth Should Be a Celebration — Not a Risk to a Mother's Life

Western Uganda has one of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the country. Women in rural Kabarole are still giving birth on earthen floors, hours from the nearest health facility, without skilled attendance. They labor through emergencies without recognizing the warning signs. Too many do not survive.

Our team is actively working to change this — one community, one mother, one safe birth at a time.

The Crisis Mothers Face Today

The barriers between a mother and safe care in rural Kabarole are multiple and real:

• The nearest health center is often 10 to 25 kilometers away — accessible only on foot or by boda boda motorcycle
• Many families cannot afford transport or delivery fees
• Traditional birth attendants operate without formal training in emergency recognition
• Postpartum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and sepsis — all preventable — remain leading causes of maternal death
• Newborns miss life-saving interventions in their critical first hours

"My first child, I almost died. There was no one who knew what to do. With my second child, the HAFT health worker was there. She saw the danger and we reached the hospital in time."
— Annet, mother of two, Kabarole District

What HAFT Is Actively Doing

Training Community Volunteer Health Workers

Working in partnership with FINS Medical University in Fort Portal, we are currently training community volunteers to conduct basic prenatal checkups, identify danger signs in pregnancy and labor, support safe deliveries, and perform newborn care in the critical first hour of life.

Prenatal Home Visits

Our volunteers are visiting pregnant mothers in their homes throughout their pregnancies — building trust, monitoring health, documenting risk factors, and ensuring that high-risk mothers reach a health facility in time.

Emergency Referral Support

We coordinate emergency transport linkages for mothers facing life-threatening complications, because knowing the danger means nothing if you cannot act on that knowledge.

How Your Donation Protects Mothers and Newborns

• $25 — covers transport costs to bring a high-risk mother to a health facility
• $75 — funds one month of prenatal home visits for five pregnant mothers
• $200 — provides a community volunteer with a full training course and delivery kit
• $500 — equips a village health post with essential maternal care supplies for six months

Measurable Lives Saved — and Lives Still at Risk

Our trained volunteer health workers have supported hundreds of safe deliveries across Kabarole District. Measurable reductions in home birth complications have been documented in communities where our program is active. Mothers who participate in prenatal visits are significantly more likely to deliver with skilled attendance.

Yet our program currently reaches only a fraction of the pregnant mothers in Kabarole and neighboring districts. Every funding gap translates directly into mothers facing labor alone and without support.

Donate today. A mother's life — and her child's future — may depend on it.